Category Archives: Open education

ICORE: International Council for Open Research and Education

The following principles form the basis for fulfilling the ICORE association’s objectives: ICORE aims to promote Open Research and Open Education as a fundamental social objective. ICORE aims to support the design and implementation of innovative strategies, instruments and services … 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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The End of the University as We Know It

The most important part of the college bubble story—the one we will soon be hearing much more about—concerns the impending financial collapse of numerous private colleges and universities and the likely shrinkage of many public ones. And when that bubble … Continue reading

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The Why and How of Open Education

This book is an introduction to Open Education (OE), giving practical guidance on the design and delivery of OE courses while wrestling with  theoretical considerations of this new and emerging domain. Educators are the main targets, but it will also … Continue reading

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Do it yourself education

Reading Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz has been fascinating. It’s a book that has been recommended to me several times over, so it was long overdue that I laid my hands on a … Continue reading

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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

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The University of Wherever

Read For more than a decade educators have been expecting the Internet to transform that bastion of tradition and authority, the university. Digital utopians have envisioned a world of virtual campuses and “distributed” learning. It’s true that online education has … Continue reading

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Open Online Courses: PLN Environments and Networks

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