Open Education Consortium

What Open Education Consortium does

Open Education Global (OEGlobal), formerly the OpenCourseWare Consortium, is a US-based nonprofit consortium headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that operates as a worldwide community for advancing open education. The organization traces its origins to MIT OpenCourseware (2002) and was formally launched as the OpenCourseWare Consortium in 2008 before rebranding to Open Education Global in 2016 to broaden its mission beyond courseware to encompass all aspects of open education. It serves more than 970 member institutions globally, alongside hundreds of individual open education practitioners, with regional nodes in Latin America (OELatam) and North America (CCCOER).

OEGlobal's core offerings are community infrastructure and convening programs rather than traditional software products. Flagship programs include the annual OEGlobal Conference (2026 edition hosted with MIT Open Learning at MIT's Samberg Conference Center, hybrid in-person and online), Open Education Week (annual global awareness campaign), the Open Education Awards for Excellence (record 225 nominations in 2026), the OEG Voices podcast, and the OEG Connect online community platform for member discussions, resource sharing, and collaboration. The organization distributes its value through a multi-channel marketing presence spanning LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, email newsletter, and earned media.

The business model is a nonprofit membership model with three primary revenue streams: recurring membership dues from institutions and individuals, donations from supporters, and transaction-based revenue from conference registration and sponsorship. Specific pricing tiers are not publicly disclosed. Governance is member-driven through a Board of Directors (with active nomination solicitations), and the organization has no parent company, no private equity or venture capital ownership, and no subsidiaries. The organization employs 51–100 staff and is classified as a private nonprofit entity without public trading.

Name

Open Education Consortium

Legal name

Open Education Global

Website

https://oeconsortium.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Consortium / Open Educational Resources Advocacy

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Services (611), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Open Courseware & Course Modules (OCW) (EDAGAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Open Educational Resources (OER) & Open Access Academic Publishing (MPAJABAG), OER Licensing, Rights & Open Policy Support (Creative Commons) (EDAGAJAO)

Keywords

• Open education advocacy
• Open educational resources
• Higher education consortium
• Educational community platform
• OER professional development

Headquarters

HQ city

Newton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: OEGlobal operates as a membership organization with institutional and individual members who pay dues to support the organization and its mission
2. Donations: The organization accepts donations from supporters to fund open education initiatives
3. Conference Revenue: Revenue generated from the annual OEGlobal Conference including registration fees and sponsorship

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels14 records

Core offering

Open Education Global (OEGlobal) is a worldwide nonprofit membership consortium that convenes and supports the open education community through flagship events (OEGlobal Conference, Open Education Week), recognition programs (Open Education Awards for Excellence), and digital community infrastructure (OEG Connect and OEG Voices Podcast). It provides field-building platforms, networking, and resource-sharing spaces for more than 970 member educational institutions and open education practitioners globally.

Product overview

Open Education Global (OEGlobal) is a nonprofit organization that serves as a global hub for open education rather than a traditional product company. Its offerings include community platforms (OEGlobal Connect), annual events (OEGlobal Conference, Open Education Week), recognition programs (Open Education Awards for Excellence), media content (OEG Voices Podcast), and regional coordination through network nodes (OELatam for Latin America, CCCOER for North America). These programs collectively support over 970 educational institutions and practitioners in advancing open education worldwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• OEG Connect: Community platform for OEGlobal members and open education practitioners to connect and collaborate.
• OEG Voices
• OEGlobal Conference
• Open Education Week
• Open Education Awards for Excellence
• OELatam
• CCCOER

Products and services

• OEGlobal Connect An online community platform where open education practitioners connect, share resources, discuss ideas, and collaborate on initiatives. Available to OEGlobal members and the open education community.
• OEGlobal Conference Annual international conference bringing together the open education community to share research, practices, and innovations. The 2026 conference is held at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts and online.
• Open Education Week (OEWeek) Annual global awareness campaign celebrating and raising visibility of open education initiatives and resources worldwide.
• Open Education Awards for Excellence (OEAwards) Annual awards program recognizing outstanding contributions to open education, including open educational resources, practices, and tools.
• OEG Voices Podcast Podcast featuring interviews and discussions with open education leaders, practitioners, and advocates from around the world.
• OELatam Regional network node serving the Latin American open education community, part of OEGlobal's global network of regional organizations.
• Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) North American regional node focused on open educational resources at community colleges, part of the OEGlobal network.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 970 education institutions and hundreds of practitioners engaged in open education

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• MIT Open LearningflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 October 2026MIT Open Learning co-hosts the OEGlobal Conference 2026 at MIT's Samberg Conference Center. MIT OpenCourseware, established 25 years ago, is the legacy program that led to the founding of the OpenCourseWare Consortium (now OEGlobal) in 2008. This partnership marks significant milestone anniversaries.
• Massachusetts Open & Low-Cost Educational Resources Advisory Council (OLERAC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 October 2026OLERAC serves as a co-host of the OEGlobal Conference 2026. OLERAC is the advisory council for open and low-cost educational resources in Massachusetts, demonstrating state-level commitment to open education initiatives.
• OELatamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional node of OEGlobal serving the Latin American open education community. OELatam operates its own website and represents OEGlobal's presence and activities in Latin America.
• CCCOER (Community College Consortium for OER)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe North American node of OEGlobal, focused specifically on open educational resources in community colleges. CCCOER operates its own website and programs including a summer book club and committee opportunities.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Wikimedia Foundation: Operator of Wikipedia and a vast ecosystem of open knowledge resources. Shares the open education mission and global community model, but operates at dramatically larger scale and broader scope than OEGlobal's higher-education-focused consortium.
• Internet Archive: A large nonprofit digital library hosting the Open Library and extensive OER collections. While much broader in scope than OEGlobal, it shares the mission of universal access to educational content and serves as a major infrastructure provider for the open education community.
• Coursera: A major MOOC and online course platform partnering with universities to deliver open and paid courses. Represents a commercialized counterpart to OEGlobal's community-based open education model, serving overlapping institutional audiences.
• Khan Academy: A large-scale open education platform offering free courses and learning content globally. Comparable in mission but operates as a productized content platform with proprietary technology rather than a member-driven consortium.

Direct peers

• MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching — a long-standing curated OER repository and community for higher education faculty. Directly comparable as an open education community platform serving similar institutional and practitioner audiences.
• Creative Commons: The primary nonprofit steward of open licensing frameworks (CC licenses) that underpin OER distribution. Operates a global community and convening infrastructure analogous to OEGlobal's, and is deeply intertwined with the open education movement that OEGlobal serves.
• OpenStax (Rice University): Rice University's OER publisher producing free peer-reviewed textbooks widely adopted in higher education. Operates as a direct institutional player in the same open education ecosystem that OEGlobal's membership community supports and convenes.
• SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition): An initiative of academic and research libraries advocating for open access, open data, and open education. Comparable as a membership-based nonprofit consortium serving academic institutions around open scholarship and open education policy.

Regional players

• European Open Education Platform (OpenEdu): A regional open education initiative supporting European higher education institutions. Comparable in mission and consortium-style operations but focused specifically on the European geography rather than OEGlobal's global footprint.
• BCcampus (British Columbia Open Education): A Canadian open education organization supporting OER adoption across British Columbia's post-secondary institutions. Similar in operating model (nonprofit, advocacy, community building) but regional in scope compared to OEGlobal's worldwide membership.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/oeconsortium
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/openeducationglobal
• Facebookfacebook.com/OCWConsortium
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/Open-Education-Consortium-126998
• Instagraminstagram.com/openedglobal

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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