Open educational resources and the higher education environment: A leadership opportunity for libraries
| Published | 2015 |
| Type of work | Newsletter |
| Journal | College & Research Libraries News Volume 76, Pages 215-218 |
| Publisher | Association of College & Research Libraries |
| Country | United States, North America |
ABSTRACT
Two speakers from the SPARC-ACRL Forum at the 2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting, Kristi Jensen and Quill West, have graciously agreed to share their insights into open educational resources (OER) in this month’s column. They approach this topic from different perspectives and assert that libraries can play a pivotal role in transforming teaching and learning by supporting the adoption of OER.| Keywords | higher education · libraries · Open Educational Resources |
| ISSN | 2150-6698 |
| Refereed | Does not apply |
| Rights | © 2015 Kristi Jensen and Quill West |
| DOI | 10.5860/crln.76.4.9298 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
Viewed by 566 distinct readers
CLOUD COMMUNITY REVIEWS
The evaluations below represent the judgements of our readers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cloud editors.
Click a star to be the first to rate this document
▶ POST A COMMENT
SIMILAR RECORDS
Open educational resources and the higher education environment:A leadership opportunity for libraries
West, Quill; Jensen, Kristi
Two speakers from the SPARC-ACRL Forum at the 2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting, Kristi Jensen and Quill West, have graciously agreed to share their insights into open educational resources (OER) in this month’s column. They ...
Match: Jensen, Kristi; West, Quill; opportunity; environment; libraries
Open educational resources - An opportunity and a challenge for students
Birzina, Rita
The use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in higher education is becoming increasingly urgent. Therefore it is essential to find out students' views on the opportunities and challenges gained by applying OERs. In the ...
Match: opportunity; higher education
Open Educational Resources plus social software: Threat or opportunity for Canadian higher education?
Anderson, Terry
Two emerging developments afford opportunity to drastically alter the way people learn and acquire knowledge. The first is the availability of open education resources (OERs) that expand earlier models of discrete ...
Match: opportunity; higher education; Open Educational Resources
Reaching the heart of the university: Libraries and the future of OER
Kleymeer, Pieter; Kleinman, Molly; Hanss, Ted
University libraries are well positioned to run or support OER production and publication operations. Many university libraries already have the technical, service, and policy infrastructure in place that would provide ...
Match: higher education; libraries; Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources
Marcus-Quinn, Ann; Diggins, Yvonne
This paper focuses on the significant developments in the area of open education, in particular the role that Open Educational Repositories (OER) can play in higher education, teaching, learning and scholarship. The ...
Match: higher education; Open Educational Resources
Openness and praxis: Exploring the use of open educational practices in higher education
Cronin, Catherine
Open educational practices (OEP) is a broad descriptor of practices that include the creation, use, and reuse of open educational resources (OER) as well as open pedagogies and open sharing of teaching practices. As ...
Match: higher education; Open Educational Resources
Acceptance and Barriers of Open Educational Resources in the Context to Indian Higher Education
Datt, Gopal; Singh, Gagan
The purpose of this study is to highlight the role and awareness of and barriers to Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Indian higher education, specifically in the State of Uttarakhand. This study further investigates ...
Match: higher education
Open educational resources at UCL
Tiedau, Ulrich
OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting ...
Match: higher education; Open Educational Resources
Open educational practices for curriculum enhancement
Armellini, Alejandro; Nie, Ming
Open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP) are relatively new areas in educational research. How OER and OEP can help practitioners enhance curricula is one of a number of under-researched ...
Match: higher education; Open Educational Resources
OER use in the Global South: A baseline survey of higher education instructors
de Oliveira Neto, José Dutra; Pete, Judith; Daryono; Cartmill, Tess
The research presented here provides baseline data regarding the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) by higher education instructors in the Global South (South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast ...
Match: higher education; Open Educational Resources
