Committee, Joint Information Systems [corporate]

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Windle, Richard J.; Wharrad, Heather; McCormick, Damion; Laverty, Helen; Taylor, Michael G.

The open educational resource (OER) movement has the potential to have a truly transformative effect on higher education, but in order to do so it must move into the mainstream and facilitate widespread participation in ...

Match: evaluation; challenges

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 ...

Match: business case; challenges

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 ...

Match: challenges; cost analysis

Connell, Marina; Connell, John

This paper offers a short evaluation of the variety of quality criteria used in Open Educational Resources and some of the methods and practices in use to ensure quality. The paper surveys and reviews effective ...

Match: evaluation

South African Institute for Distance Education; OER Africa

This is a short, simple tutorial to acquire the skills necessary to search for open content, decipher Creative Commons rights and permissions and evaluate the usefulness of Open Educational Resources (OER) for new ...

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Atenas, Javiera; Havemann, Leo

The World OER Declaration 2012 recommends that States join efforts to facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing OER. The OER movement has thus far spurred the creation of numerous repository initiatives worldwide with ...

Match: evaluation

Cooney, Cailean

This article reports findings from a study conducted with students in three sections of a Health Psychology course that replaced a traditional textbook with open educational resources (OER) as the primary course ...

Match: evaluation

Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Ferran-Ferrer, Núria; Abadal, Ernest

This article provides an overview of the current state of repositories of open educational resources (ROER) in higher education at international level. It analyses a series of educational indicators to determine whether ...

Match: evaluation

Aleman de la Garza, Lorena; Sancho Vinuesa, Teresa; Gomez Zermeño, Marcela Georgina

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have generated high expectations and revolutionized some educational practices by providing open educational resources for reference, usage and adaptation; therefore, their ...

Match: evaluation

Bell, Frances; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

The sociotechnical context for learning and education is dynamic and makes great demands on those trying to seize the opportunities presented by emerging technologies. The goal of this paper is to explore certain ...

Match: evaluation