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Open Content: when is it effective educationally?
Lane, Andy

PublishedSeptember 2007
ConferenceOpen Education 2007: Localizing and Learning

ABSTRACT
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are often seen as a subset of Open Content. This raises the question of what characterises OERs and distinguishes it from other types of Open Content? And if the content is deemed educational then what makes it effective in promoting learning in a prospective learner?

Keywords OER creation · social learning · informal learning

Languageeng
URLhttp://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/17830
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