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Enterprising teachers
The Internet makes it easy for teachers to share information and learn from each other, which is all to the good. There's an ethical line, though, they should take care not to cross.
Utah and Creative Commons « iterating toward openness
Who owns the copyright on teacher created materials?
Open Educational Resources: The implications for educational development (SEDA) @ Dave’s Educational Blog
This article will be published in the December 2009 issue of Educational Developments, SEDA’s Magazine (see http://www.seda.ac.uk).
Taking OER remix to new levels: WikiEducator, Connexions and Mediawiki - WikiEducator
With generous funding support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the OER Foundation is pleased to announce that we are able to take OER interoperability and remix potential to new levels.Collaborating with OER projects which subscribe to licenses which meet the requirements of the free cultural works definition, WE aim to provide educators with greater freedom of choice to mix and match the best of two OER worlds, namely "producer-consumer" models with more traditional work flow approaches and commons-based peer production. This is an exciting project to build import export capability between the Connexions and WikiEducator/Mediawiki platforms.
Open Educational Resources: Building Knowledge Societies
Keynote speech given by Susan D'Antoni on 25 September 2009 at the 2009 Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning "Supporting learning in the digital age: rethinking inclusion, pedagogy and quality".
Open Ed at Creative Commons
The OpenEd Community site is for anyone interested in open education. It provides information, organisation contacts, reports, guidance on how to license educational work etc.
IRRODL special issue on "Openness and the Future of Education" Vol 10, No 5 (2009)
IRRODL just released a special issue on Openness and the Future of Education.
Access to Open Educational Resources: Report of a UNESCO OER Community discussion
The community thus returned to the issue of access in a new discussion, held in February and March 2009. The new discussion took up the issues first raised in June 2008, and explored access challenges and some of the potential solutions at hand. It was an opportunity to share creative responses from different situations. Broadly speaking, the discussion was conducted in three phases:\nWeek 1: Identification and description of the main problems associated with access, and an initial development of a classification scheme.\nWeek 2: Exploration of solutions and approaches, and their potential for the various types of barriers identified.\nWeek 3: A concrete attempt to develop specific proposals.\nThe present document is the summary report of this discussion. It is divided into three parts, following the themes of the three weeks. Part One gives an overview of the various constraints that limit access to OER, while Part Two documents some tested or proposed solutions or approaches. The access\nchallenges and solutions identified may justify further exploration and follow-up action - proposals for which can be found in Part Three. The form that this follow-up action takes will depend on the OER community.
Degrees of Openness: The emergence of Open Educational Resources at the University of Cape Town
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide a range of opportunities to share educational materials and processes in ways that are not yet fully understood. In an extraordinary development, increasing numbers of traditional and distance universities are using ICTs to make a selection of their teaching resources freely available as 'open education resources' (OER). The University of Cape Town recently signed the Cape Town Open Education Declaration signalling some senior level support for the notion of OER. In anticipation of an institution-wide roll-out, lecturers and educational technologists at UCT are grappling with the issues that need to be addressed to meet this intent. This paper suggests that careful analysis of existing educational materials and processes is necessary to provide an indication of what can be done to make them more openly available beyond the confines of an individual teaching and learning space. However, the deceptively simple term "open" hides a reef of complexity. This paper endeavours to unravel the degrees of openness with respect to key attributes of OER, namely social, technical, legal and financial openness in an attempt to make the task of identifying where changes could be made to existing teaching materials or processes a little easier for the lecturer and the educational technologist alike. While acknowledging the potential value of content, we contend, however, that it is the opening up of educational processes, which we are calling Open Pedagogy (OP) enabled by the Web 2.0 technologies that are set to play the more transformational role in the collaboration between students and lecturers.
Educators and the Cape Town Open Learning Declaration: Rhetorically reducing distance
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration and other visionary documents seek to unify and challenge educators in the creation and use of open learning resources. We rhetorically analyse the Declaration which idealizes the educational process and contrast this with the practical challenges which affect the development and use of open educational resources. We draw on classical rhetoric and hermeneutics as analytical tools of such visionary documents that contain little factual information. Without an initial vision, an enabling environment, complete with policies and funding, means very little. We argue that analysing such vision documents is important part in persuading educators to take further steps towards creating, shaping and evolving their own educational practices.
UNESCO OER Toolkit
From the email release: "Today the UNESCO OER Toolkit (with support from the UNESCO Communications and Information Sector) was released as a resource for academics and institutions -- with a special focus on developing countries -- who are interested in participating in open education projects." The toolkit is a basic set of wiki pages containing introductory-level information on open educational resources (OERs). Philipp Schmidt, UNESCO, October 15, 2009.
Free Online Courses, at a Very High Price - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Colleges, too, are grappling with the limits of this global online movement. Enthusiasts think open courses have the potential to uplift a nation of Zieglers by helping them piece together cheaper degrees from multiple institutions. But some worry that universities' projects may stall, because the recession and disappearing grant money are forcing colleges to confront a difficult question: What business model can support the high cost of giving away your "free" content?
OER Research
The body of work collected here represents the combined efforts of organizations worldwide. During the last ten years, as the Open Educational Resources movement has grown, so has the body of research being produced on the topic. We invite you to engage with the new discoveries and analyses that this collection has to offer.
Open Training Resources « OUseful.Info, the blog…
Some disconnected thoughts about who gives a whatever about OERs, brought on in part by @liamgh's Why remix an Open Educational Resource? (see also this 2 year old post: So What Exactly Is An OpenLearn Content Remix?). A couple of other bits of context too, to to situate HE in a wider context of educational broadcasting:
Food Security Information for Action
Open access resource from an EC/FAO Programme .Free self-access e-learning courses. The website offers self-paced e-learning, developed by international experts to support capacity building and on-the-job Training and Workshops at national and local food security information systems and networks.
Open Educational Resources Teacher Network (OERTN) project - progress report Sept 2009
The OER (Open Educational Resources) Teachers' Network project, supported with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (US$100,000) and the project partners, was a short scoping and feasibility study (January 2008 - September 2009) that aimed to promote more effective production and exchange of open educational resources between learning content repositories and teachers all over the world.
Launch of the OER foundation - WikiEducator
The Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation was officially launched on 17 September 2009 by Dr Robin Day, Chair of the board of Directors of the OER Foundation. The OER Foundation is a new not-for-profit organisation that will assist education institutions in New Zealand and around the world to reduce costs through open education resources. These are materials which educators are free to reuse, adapt and modify without restriction.
Xpert
Browse Open Educational Resources (OERs) by copyright license, institution, publisher, author, type, language or keyword.
UNESCO Bangkok launches the ICT in Education Teacher Training Series
UNESCO Bangkok recently produced four CD-ROMs, the first volume in a series of quality resources for the ICT in Education Teacher Training Project in the Asia-Pacific Region. One objective of this project is to develop a set of materials that will be useful to Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) in training teachers to integrate ICT in their pedagogy. However, anybody involved in education can make good use of the resources presented on the CDs.
Otherwise Open: Managing Incompatible Content in OER
Gaining a deeper understanding of the ways in which copyright exceptions function globally and how these exceptions interact with open licensing is an important move for the OER community, and one ccLearn hopes to lead the way on. At the OpenEd conference, Lila Bailey presented a paper, titled “Otherwise Open: Managing Incompatible Content in OER,” which outlines this problem in detail.
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