Open Educational Resources (OER)

PublishedNovember 2016
PeriodicalVolume 2016, Pages News release
PublisherThe 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 numberPosted 3rd November 2016
RefereedDoes not apply
URLhttps://www.thecommonwealth-educationhub.net/oer/
Access datePosted 3rd November 2016
Export optionsBibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar


Viewed by 131 distinct readers




CLOUD COMMUNITY REVIEWS

The evaluations below represent the judgements of our readers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cloud editors.

Click a star to be the first to rate this document


POST A COMMENT
SIMILAR RECORDS

National Repository of Open Education for all Educational Resources: Connecting knowledge connecting people
Anubhuti, Yadav
Abstract The National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) is an Indian school education initiative by the Central Institute of Educational technology ( CIET), National Council for Educational Research & ...
Match: resources

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 ...
Match: resources

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 ...
Match: resources

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 ...
Match: resources

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 ...
Match: resources

Open educational resources: Global report 2017
Three documents have been developed in the framework of the 2nd World OER Congress. The two documents: Open Educational Resources: From Commitment to Action and the Open Educational Resources: Global Report 2017 provide ...
Match: resources; oer policy; oer research

Differentiation in access to, and the use and sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among students and lecturers at Kenyan Universities
Pete, Judith; Mulder, Fred; Neto, Jose Oliveira
In order to obtain a fair ‘OER picture’ for the Global South a large-scale study has been carried out for a series of countries, including Kenya. In this paper we report on the Kenya study, run at four universities ...
Match: resources

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 ...
Match: resources

State of the States: Open Educational Resources in K-12 education
Cadran, Amanda
The implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) will create new opportunities for states to collaborate and leverage investments of public funds around materials, resources, and professional development ...
Match: resources; oer policy; oer research

Expanding approaches for understanding impact: integrating technology, curriculum, and open educational resources in science education.
Ye, Lei; Recker, Mimi; Walker, Andrew; Leary, Heather; Yuan, Min
This article reports results from a scale-up study of the impact of a software tool designed to support teachers in the digital learning era. This tool, the Curriculum Customization Service (CCS), enables teachers to ...
Match: resources