Adapting and sharing open educational resources: a social networking approach
| Published | July 2011 |
| Journal | 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies Pages 619–620 |
ABSTRACT
Open educational resources (OER) have recently emerged as an answer to the need for open and reusable educational material, freely available online. This paper describes a social networking approach in adapting and sharing OER. This approach aims to address the needs of a variety of stakeholders, including educational institutions, private organisations, as well as individual learners and educators.| Keywords | adapting · collaboration · content creation · educators · learning community · running case · sharing · social · social networking · stakeholder clusters |
| Language | en |
| ISBN | 978-0-7695-4346-8 |
| URL | http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=17949 |
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