The OER Knowledge Cloud: Open Educational Resources Infokit

Open Educational Resources infoKit

Published	2013
Publisher	The Higher Education Academy

ABSTRACT

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are increasingly being made available by Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) institutions. They are resources licensed in a way such that they can be re-used, re-purposed, re-mixed and re-distributed. There are a number of license options for individuals or organisations considering releasing OERs, perhaps the most common being various iterations of the Creative Commons license. This infoKit, as with the whole of the JISC infoNet website, is itself released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.

There are a number of considerations to take into account when dealing with OERs. These range from specific technical issues to barriers and enablers to institutional adoption. This infoKit aims to both inform and explain OERs and the issues surrounding them for managers, academics and those in learning support. It is aimed at senior managers, learning technologists, technical staff and educators with an interest in releasing OERs to the educational community.

This infokit includes information about the three year UK Open Educational Resources Programme (UKOER) (2009 - 2012) and offers links to a wide range of resources which describe the outcomes (lessons learned) and outputs (reports, guidance materials and toolkits) that emerged.

Keywords

OER infokit · OER literature review · OER report · OER resources · toolkit · UKOER · wiki

Rights	by/3.0
URL	http://bit.ly/oerinfokit
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

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

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

Pirker, Viera; Pirner, Manfred L.

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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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Challenges of adopting open educational resources (OER) in Kenyan secondary schools: The case of open resources for English language teaching (ORELT)

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What do academic libraries have to do with Open Educational Resources? Theme : Long term sustainability of open education projects first steps to start up

Robertson, John R.

This paper will discuss the possible roles of academic libraries in promoting, supporting, and sustaining institutional Open Educational Resource initiatives. It will note areas in which libraries or librarians have ...

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Pulist, S. K.; Leal Filho, W.; Azul, A. M.; Brandli, L.; et al.

The introduction of Open Educational Resources (OER) in the form of open courseware took place with the announcement of MIT in 2001 to put substantial number of courses on their website to be available to all for free. ...

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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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The Impact of Adopting OER Videos as Supplementary Resources on Student Scores and Engagement

Albalawi, Awad

Open educational resources (OER) have gained immense popularity in recent years, due to their ability to offer students and educators access to high-quality, free-to-use educational materials. The widespread use of OER ...

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