The Promise of Open Education: A Report on the Research and Findings of the Lane Community College Open Educational Resources Team
The Lane OER Team (www.bit.ly/laneoer [1]) was charged with researching and assessing the current state of OERs and providing their findings in a report to the faculty and student body of Lane. This report includes the analysis of over 50 open educational resource providers, organizations, repositories, searches, and producers. The team was also responsible for identifying and recommending... more
The Why and How of Open Education: With Lessons from the openSE and openED Projects
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 be relevant to policy makers, senior education managers and the learning industry as a whole. more
Barriers and Motivators for Using OER in Schools
For this study we investigated German teachers to see how they use, reuse, produceand manage OER. The research explored what motivators and barriers effect their use of OER, what others can learn from their Open Educational Practices, and what we can do to raise the dissemination level of OER in schools. The survey revealed some unexpected results, notably the fact that participating German... more
Fostering Open Educational Practices
OER are becoming accepted as part of the range of materials that learners and educators can use. However, the methods and practices that enable learners, teachers and institutions to best engage with OER are not yet established and may well be more important in enabling change in education systems than the availability of the resources themselves. By looking at the experiences that The Open... more
An Expert Survey on the Barriers and Enablers of Open Educational Practices
This paper is a report on the findings of a literature review and an expert survey conducted in December 2010 with a self-selected panel. The findings depict current issues for debate, pinpoint potential obstacles and benefits of OER. more
From Open Educational Resources to Open Educational Practices
This article provides an analysis of the size, shape and model of various OER initiatives. more
Beyond OER: Shifting Focus to Open Educational Practices. OPAL Report 2011
This study presents the findings of a quantitative study on the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in Higher Education and Adult Learning Institutions. more
Open Educational Resources and Higher Education
This paper examines the concept of OER in more detail, offering a simple, clear definition, explaining the economic and educational potential behind that definition, introducing examples of OER practices around the world, exploring legal considerations, and highlighting some of the challenges to releasing the transformative potential of OER. more
How Giving Away Religious Digital Books Influences the Print Sales of Those Books
Lack of access prevents many from benefiting from educational resources. Digital technologies now enable educational resources, such as books, to be openly available to those with access to the Internet. This study examined the financial viability of a religious publisher?s putting free digital versions of eight of its books on the Internet. The total cost of putting these books online was $... more
Peer-To-Peer Recognition of Learning in Open Education
Recognition in education is the acknowledgment of learning achievements. Accreditation is certification of such recognition by an institution, an organization, a government, a community, etc. There are a number of assessment methods by which learning can be evaluated (exam,practicum, etc.) for the purpose of recognition and accreditation, and there are a number of different purposes for the... more
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