The OER Knowledge Cloud: Open Educational Resources At Ucl

Open educational resources at UCL

Published	2010
Journal	TILT2010: Education for Global Citizenship Pages 1–10
Country	United Kingdom, Europe

ABSTRACT

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 todays classrooms. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices.

Keywords

best practices · education · higher education · K-12 · Open Educational Resources · UKOER · web 2.0

Published at	London
Language	eng
URL	http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/20096/
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