Can OER transform education? A developing world perspective
| Published | November 2011 |
| Type of work | Video Presentation |
| Series | Presented at the 2011 conference on Open Educational Resources in Iceland, 21 November 2011 |
| Publisher | Commonwealth of Learning |
| Country | Iceland |
ABSTRACT
Video presentation given at the 2011 conference on Open Educational Resources in Iceland (21 November 2011) by Professor Asha Kanwar, Commonwealth of Learning. // OER penetration in the developing world has been slower than in the industrialized countries. Yet there are emergent examples which give an indication of how OER are being used in low-resource contexts. Resource contains link to video as well as documents of the transcript and presentation slides.https://youtu.be/IPzetdGMFAk
| Keywords | Open Educational Resources · sustainable development |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/11599/1278 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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