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Liu, M.; Kang, J.; McKelroy, E.

In recent years, massive open online Courses (MOOCs) as an online instruction format have attracted educators’ attention in higher education. While there are many news reports and blog entries about MOOCs, ...

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Grodecka, Karolina; Śliwowski, Kamil; Creative Commons

This site has one purpose – to bust myths about Open Educational Resources! There are two parts – a mythbusting guide and a quick introduction to OER. Both will help you find fast, simple and useful answers to ...

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Metzer, Jacques; Hanna, Amal

Volunteers contribute their efforts and time into organizations for different reasons and goals. These goals include strengthening their experience, developing networks, and enhancing their feelings. Similarly, ...

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Wiley, David

Introduction Last year Bob Reiser invited me to contribute a chapter to the fourth edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology, to be published by Pearson. I agreed on the conditions that I would ...

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D'Antoni, Susan

Four topics for the creation of the OER mapping model are addressed: 1) A rationale for a collaborative OER world map "How would a visual OER world map be useful in your own setting and from your own ...

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Wright, Robin; Padgett, Luke; Whitehead, Derek; Bossu, Carina; et al.

The adoption of open education resources (OER) by Australian higher education can enhance innovation, as well as increase access to teaching and learning in the digital environment. But without a clear understanding of ...

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U.S. Department of Education

Across the country, districts are choosing to #GoOpen and transitioning to the use of openly licensed educational resources to improve student learning in their schools. Openly licensed educational resources enable ...

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Wiley, David; Green, Cable; Oblinger, Diana

In this chapter, we explore a number of ways openness affects the practices of teaching and learning and the motivations behind supporters of these emergent practices. We discuss the three principal influences of ...

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The Hewlett Foundation’s Education Program is committed to openness and transparency in its grantmaking. Recently, the Program revisited its Open Educational Resources (OER) strategy in an effort to better understand ...

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Joyce, Alexa

The objective of the study was to survey the range of current OER initiatives, and to clarify and analyse critical issues facing institutional providers of OER, in particular addressing four questions: How to develop ...

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