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Category Archives: OER
The Ecology of Sharing: Synthesizing OER Research
Arguably, Open Educational Resources (OER) are starting to enter the mainstream, though some fundamental questions about their value and impact remain to be answered or supported with appropriate evidence. Much early OER activity was driven by ideals and interest in … Continue reading
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An Open Future for Higher Education
As the world becomes more open, universities have the opportunity to embrace openness in how they carry out their operations, teaching, and research. Open educational resources can provide the catalyst for different forms of learning, linking formal and informal aspects … Continue reading
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Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education – Reflections from Practice
In the last decade in particular, the promotion, sharing and use of open educational resources (OER) have been growing exponentially. However, as with any new phenomenon or paradigm, our knowledge of OER’s ramifications and achievements to date necessarily lags behind … Continue reading
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Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education
Open educational resources (OER) are materials used to support education that may be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared. These Guidelines outline key issues and make suggestions for integrating OER into higher education. Their purpose is to encourage decision makers … Continue reading
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Is Community as Important as Content for Online Learning?
Back in 2001, MIT launched OpenCourseWare, a bold idea to put world-class MIT professors’ lectures, syllabi and resources online to the world for free. Today, Open Education Resources (OER) industry leaders are arguing that the free content is only the … Continue reading
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Future Learning and OER
Imagine the day when students, because of the very nature of how they were taught, expect to and actually do verify the information they find online, work to produce content that adds to the body of knowledge in a given … Continue reading
Collaborative Environments to Foster Creativity, Reuse and Sharing of OER
The popularity of ICT within teachers has operated a shift between an individual way of producing resources to be used in class and a social way of doing it. Nowadays teachers do not have to be passive users, but reflective … Continue reading
Posted in CoP, Creative pedagogy, Creative thinking, Creativity, OER, Pedagogy, Social creativity
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Fostering Creativity – The Use of Open Educational Resources
EURODL‘ Special Issue on Fostering Creativity – The Use of Open Educational Resources is edited by leading scholars in the field: Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Graínne Conole and Asger Harlung. The special issue aims to place the development of OERs within … Continue reading
No Country for Young People?
In contemporary popular culture, Australia’s cities and suburbs are places where children are aborted, abandoned, exploited, murdered or never conceived. Like the bush-lost children before them, these “at risk” young people symbolise adult fears of self, society, and the future. … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity & education, Complexity & learning, Education, OER, Open education
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