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Google Wave Use Cases: Education
"After searching some public 'waves,' we came across an educational wave. Entitled 'Wave in Class,' this wave was started by Loren Baum (a self-described "collaborative learning enthusiast" and graduate student at Ben Gurion University) and Sam Boland (a Politics student and "Tech Enthusiast" at Occidental College, Los Angeles). "
Open Ed Syllabus - OpenContent Wiki
"The goals of the course are (1) to give you a firm grounding in the current state of the field of open education, including related topics like copyright, licensing, and sustainability, (2) to help you locate open education in the context of mainstream instructional technologies like learning objects, and (3) to get you thinking, writing, and dialoguing creatively and critically about current practices and possible alternative practices in open education. "
Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education
"This briefing paper provides the background to the current development of and future trends around OER aimed at adding to our understanding, stimulating ongoing debate among the JISC community and developing a research agenda."
Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace
"Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace provides an overview of the first steps of this exciting new development: it captures the conversations between leaders of some of the first OER projects, and documents early debates on the issues that continue to challenge the movement."
UNESCO OER_Wiki
"This site was originally created by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) as a place where members of the UNESCO OER Community can work together on questions, issues and documents."
at OER Blogs
"OER Blogs is attempting to unite the world of Open Educational Resources"
Free Learning - Educational Resources
"Here you will find FREE TO USE learning resources that you can use to supplement your own course materials or learning. Some of these are from BC-based projects while others are from Open Educational Resource projects from around the world."
OER Commons
"In a brave new world of learning, OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know."
Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning | Video on TED.com
"Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world."
(m)ein Verständnis von OER
"Open Educational Ressources folgt einem Konzept, das zunächst im Softwarebereich entstanden ist."
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
"Die noch junge "Open Education" Bewegung verbindet die alte Tradition Wissen und Ideen gemeinsam zu entwickeln und auszutauschen mit den neuen Möglichkeiten der Vernetzung und Interaktivität, die das Internet bietet. Sie basiert auf dem Grundprinzip, dass jeder die Freiheit haben sollte, Bildungsmaterialien zu nutzen, zu verändern, verbessern und weiterzugeben – ohne Einschränkungen."
Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
"Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc."
Open Learning Initiative
"Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback, the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) builds courses that are intended to enact instruction - or, more precisely, to enact the kind of dynamic, flexible, and responsive instruction that fosters learning."
University of the People – The world’s first tuition-free, online university
"University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition-free, online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality, low-cost and global educational model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring university level studies within reach of millions of people across the world. With the support of respected academics, humanitarians and other visionaries, the UoPeople student body represents a new wave in global education."
Online Video Lectures and Course Materials — Open Yale Courses
"Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn."
P2PU - Peer 2 Peer University
"The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses."
Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources
"The report offers a comprehensive overview of the rapidly changing phenomenon of Open Educational Resources and the challenges it poses for higher education. It examines reasons for individuals and institutions to share resources for free, and looks at copyright issues, sustainability and business models as well as policy implications. It will be of particular interest to those involved in e-learning or strategic decision making within higher education, to researchers and to students of new technologies."
Open Educational Practices and Resources. OLCOS Roadmap 2012.
"The road mapping work was conducted to provide decision makers with an overview of current and likely future developments in OER and recommendations on how various challenges in OER could be addressed."
Open Educational Content de - WikiEducator
Ziel diese Wikis ist es, die Erstellung, Wiederverwendung und der Verbreitung von offenen Lernmaterialien zu unterstützen.
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