The OER Knowledge Cloud: Distance Learning - Open Educational Resources: Reasons To Be Cheerful?

Distance learning - Open educational resources: reasons to be cheerful?

Published	December 2014
Journal	ACM Inroads Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 37-38
Publisher	ACM
Country	United States, North America

Keywords

course development · digital repositories · Open Educational Resources · quality

Published at	New York
ISSN	2153-2184
Rights	Copyright held by author
DOI	10.1145/2684721.2684729
URL	https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2684721.2684729
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Student perceptions of open pedagogy: An exploratory study

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With the increasing development and adoption of Open Educational Resources, many researchers and practitioners are interested in more carefully examining pedagogies connected with their use. This study describes the ...

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METRO hosts OER panel

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The article offers information on a panel discussion titled "Leveraging Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Classroom and Beyond," organized by the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) on November 2, ...