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Gautam Senvaluable resource to understand how educational access can be opened up through open education resources (OER)
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Open educational resources or OER are defined by a report to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as follows:
"OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge."[1]
iCommons.org describes the origin and meaning of the word as follows:
"The phrase ‘open education resources’ was first coined in 2002 at UNESCO’s Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries. It encompasses several different types of resources, including learning content (courses, lesson plans and learning objects), tools (software that supports the development, management and re-use of content) and implementation resources (the intellectual property licences that promote open licensing and other principles of best practice)."[2]
UNESCO's current interest in OER is centered at its International Institute for Educational Planning, but this site does not appear to define what OER are, except by exhaustive listing of OERs and assistance with creating them.
UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning is possibly the most authoritative and comprehensive source of information and resources.
* OER Portals and Gateways
* OER Repositories
* OER development and publishing initiatives
* OER Tools
OER Commons is one of the largest guides to OER, with over 10,000 resources catalogued, drawn from many other OER sites. OER Commons is managed by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education and financially supported by the Hewlett Foundation, a major benefactor to OER projects.
Wikiversity's own list of open educational resources at other sites. -
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