OER and MOOCs at the National Open University of Nigeria
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is the second largest university in Africa with more than 180,000 students. The OER project at NOUN was initially motivated in response to the 2012 UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Paris Declaration on OER. Specifically, NOUN referred to the section that encouraged government-funded materials to be released under an open licence and made... more
OUT OER Institutional Analysis Workshop
Presentation by Brenda Mallinson at a workshop held at the Open University of Tanzania in 2014. more
Federal pen Licensing Playbook
Federal agencies are increasingly using open licensing to expand the impact and reach of their work, enable innovative use of federally-funded materials, and ensure that publicly funded resources are available to the public. We note shared practices and consideration s, common to the federal open licensing efforts thus far. This Playbook provides a practitioner's guide to using open... more
Web Strategies for the Curation and Discovery of Open Educational Resources
For those receiving funding from the UK HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resource Programme (2009- 2012), the sustainability of project outputs was one of a number of essential goals. Our approach for the hosting and distribution of health and life science open educational resources (OER) was based on the utilisation of the WordPress.org blogging platform and search engine optimisation (SEO)... more
Open Educational Practices: Motivating Teachers to Use and Reuse Open Educational Resources
The paper presents the Open Educational Practices (OEP) initiative that was implemented in Greece, as part of the national strategy for digital educational content in primary and secondary education. It aimed at encouraging and motivating teachers to develop and share OEPs that draw upon the use and reuse of Open Educational Resources (OERs), found either at the Photodentro national content... more
Open Educational Resources (OER) and the Evolving Higher Education Landscape: White Paper
Who’s using OER, who’s not, and why? Where is OER headed and do educational content providers fit into the picture? Out of primary and secondary research conducted by Cengage Learning in early 2016, a view emerged of the evolving OER landscape. more
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
The Review Project
This review provides a summary of all known empirical research on the impacts of OER adoption. This version will be updated with new articles as the authors become aware of them. more
Impact of Open Licensing on the Early Reader Ecosystem
/The Impact of Open Licensing on the Early Reader Ecosystem /examines how to use open licensing to promote quality learning resources for young children that are relevant and interesting. Research in early reading tends to focus on traditional publishing value and supply chains, without taking much consideration of new approaches and solutions emerging from the digitization of content and... more
Challenges of Open Educational Resources: A Comparative Study Between Shanghai Open University and the Open University of Tanzania
The study discusses the challenges of open educational resources and in doing so makes a comparative analysis between Shanghai Open University and the Open University of Tanzania. The study uses descriptive survey research design to examine the challenges of open educational researches and hence make a comparative analysis between Shanghai Open University and the open university of Tanzania... more
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