The OER Knowledge Cloud: Open Educational Resources (oer)

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Published	November 2016
Periodical	Volume 2016, Pages News release
Publisher	The Commonwealth Education Hub

ABSTRACT

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

Included:

- Policy Brief
- OER Policy Development Tool
- Institutional OER Policy Template
- Government Policy Development Template to Progress Effective
- Implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Open Educational Resources Survey
- Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education

Keywords

government policy · implementation template · OER policy · OER research · toolkit

Other number	Posted 3rd November 2016
Refereed	Does not apply
URL	https://www.thecommonwealth-educationhub.net/oer/
Access date	Posted 3rd November 2016
Export options	BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar

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Anubhuti, Yadav

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Open Educational Resources: Higher education students' knowledge and use

Alves, Paulo; Miranda, Luísa; Morais, Carlos

Information and communication technologies represent one of the main innovation factors within the teaching and learning process, especially in Higher Education. In this context, the search for building useful and ...

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Alternate academy: Investigating the use of Open Educational Resources by students at the University of Lagos in Nigeria

Onaifo, Daniel; Quan-Haase, Anabel

Open educational resources (OER) are increasingly used to support pedagogical initiatives and learning needs at institutions of higher education across the globe. In this thesis, I examined key issues in the use of OER ...

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Preliminary Report on the Draft Recommendation Concerning Open Educational Resources (OER)

UNESCO

1. This document is prepared further to 39C/Resolution 44 of the UNESCO General Conference, and a follow-up to ‘the Study on International Collaboration on Open Educational Resources (OER) (201 EX/Decision 9), which ...

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Open Educational Resources und Open Educational Practices – ein systematischer Literaturbericht im religionspädagogischen Horizont

Pirker, Viera; Pirner, Manfred L.

Open Educational Resources (OER) und Open Educational Practices (OEP) haben sich als zentrale Elemente der strategischen Entwicklung digitaler Bildungspraktiken etabliert, bleiben jedoch in der religionspädagogischen ...

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Suitable economic models for Open Educational Resources initiative in aquaculture higher education

Pounds, Alexandra; Bostock, John

Many initiatives are developing Open Educational Resources (OERs) in a variety of sectors because they have the potential to increase access to education and knowledge. Investment is a limiting factor for many of these ...

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A look at the future of Open Educational Resources

Downes, Stephen

Open Educational Resources (OER) have been traditionally defined as educational contents that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and ...

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Two models for sharing digital open educational resources

Rennie, Frank; Reynolds, Patricia

Two contrasting models to facilitate the sharing of digital educational resources available for Higher Education are reviewed. The first model is based upon a low-input / open-access format that identifies, reviews then ...

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A deeper understanding of reuse: Learning designs, activities, resources and their contexts

Wills, Sandra; Pegler, Chris

This paper positions discussion of learning designs in the broad context of reuse and repurpose. It proposes that not enough attention has been given to the purpose of reuse and the motivation of those who choose to ...

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The evolving economics of educational materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward closer alignment with the core values of education

Wiley, David

Introduction Last year Bob Reiser invited me to contribute a chapter to the fourth edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology, to be published by Pearson. I agreed on the conditions that I would ...

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