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Silver, Leilani

There is obviously a need for education alternatives, and Open Educational Resources (OER) has the potential to fill in some of the gaps and meet the increased demand for education. This paper proposes that OER has the ...

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Hylén, Jan

A discussion of a proposed OECD/CERI study to address four main concerns: 1. How to develop sustainable costs/benefits models for OER initiatives. 2. What are the intellectual property right issues linked to OER ...

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Burgos Aguilar, José Vladimir; Ramirez Montoya, Maria Soledad

This paper presents practical experiences using Open educational Resources (OER) for basic and elementary education (K12), educational research and research training on two inter-institutional projects with the ...

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Richards, Griff; Marshall, Stewart

Open Education Resources are educational materials purposely made available for free use by others. They offer tremendous potential for reducing costs and increasing access to education especially in the developing ...

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Dinevski, Dejan; Fošnarič, Samo; Arh, Tanja

Open educational resources in e-learning are the future source of information for lifelong learners. Open source and open standards are defined as the basis of the "Open educational resource movement" that is beginning ...

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Wilson-Strydom, Merridy; OER Africa

The Potential of Open Educational Resources Concept Paper Prepared by OER Africa This study commences with a brief overview of the historical context in which current higher education systems in Sub-Saharan Africa have ...

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Friesen, Norm

The education community has been at the forefront in envisioning and conceptualizing infrastructures intended for utilizing and sharing digital content or resources. However, this community has faced challenges in ...

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Dalipi, Fisnik; Ferati, Mexhid; Kurti, Arianit; Zaphiris, Panayiotis; Ioannou, Andri

MOOCs are increasingly being considered by universities as an integral part of their curriculum. Nevertheless, there are several challenges that to some extent slow this process, where the most important one is the ...

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Gurell, Seth; Kuo, Yu Chun; Walker, Andrew

Open education, as embodied in open educational resources (OER) and OpenCourseWare (OCW), has met and dealt with several key problems. The movement now has a critical mass of available content. Leveraging no small ...

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Helme, Marion

This project began with three principle objectives: • To critically assess the enablers and barriers to releasing learning resources in Public Health • To develop a conceptual framework to inform OER ...

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