Open Educational Practices: A Literature Review
Despite the benefits to the adoption of open textbooks, other OER, and open educational practices, there has not yet been widespread uptake of these materials and methods. (Paradis, 2014) This paper will serve as a review of existing literature, exploring: ● what open education means in current contexts ● what problems the integration of open educational materials may help negate... more
Open Educational Resources: Is the Federal Government Overstepping Its Role?
An article discussing the role of the US Federal Government in promoting OER and the author provides a counter-argument. more
Role of OER in Supporting Pedagogical Transformation at the Open University of Tanzania
This institutional presentation was made at the OER Africa 2016 convening in May in Nairobi. more
OER Policy Development Toolkit for Higher Education
The interactive toolkit allows you to choose a policy statement in various categories and create an output of a completed Open Policy for your Institution. The toolkit is licensed CC BY and we would love for you to reuse it, remix it, revise it, and/or redistribute it. more
Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs and Transformation
Open Educational Resources (OER) — teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free for others to use, revise and share — offer a powerful means of expanding the reach and effectiveness of worldwide education. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO co-organised the World OER Congress in 2012 in Paris. That Congress resulted in the OER Paris Declaration: a... more
University of Edinburgh Open Educational Resources Policy
This policy outlines the University’s position on Open Educational Resources (OERs) and provides guidelines for practice in learning and teaching. more
Utilising Open Educational Resources (OER) in Support of Curriculum Transformation at Africa Nazarene University
This OER Africa presentation, made at the ALARA 9th Action Learning Research Congress in November 2015, discusses the participatory action research approach that is being used at the Africa Nazarene University (ANU). more
Adult Education and Open Educational Resources: Study
This study reviews the current use of Open Educational Resources in Adult Education, assesses its potential and makes recommendations for policy interventions, taking account of the European Commission’s policy frameworks. It incorporates new research on over 12 Member States, leveraging on a synthesis of existing research from a range of projects including POERUP (Policies for OER Uptake)... more
A Guide to Quality in Post-Traditional Online Higher Education
The quality assurance of post-traditional higher education is not straightforward, because openness and flexibility are primary characteristics of these new approaches, whereas traditional approaches to quality assurance were designed for teaching and learning within more tightly structured frameworks. This guide, structured in the form of ‘Frequently Asked Questions’, grapples with this... more
Growing the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in US Higher Education
This online report from the Babson Survey Research Group is an output on a survey of academic leaders between 2009 - 201 on their knowledge, use and opinion of OER. In addition, surveys were conducted asking faculty in higher education and academic technology administrators their opinions of these resources. Finally, the survey of faculty investigated their use of social media also asked for... more
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