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Pegler, Chris

The list of barriers and enablers that influence the use of open educational resources (OER) is extensive. Factors and influences relating to reuse may have been noted within projects, operating within a short time ...

Match: learning objects; OER; reuse

Wang, Shouhong; Wang, Hai

Open educational resources (OER) are growing over the past decade. While OER can make educational resources widely available to all students and educators for free, OER are still untried by the majority of instructors, ...

Match: communities of practice; OER

Crissinger, Sarah

In Brief Both Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) are becoming more central to many librarians’ work and the core mission of librarianship, in part because of the perceived relationship between ...

Match: learning objects; OER

Gordillo Méndez, Aldo; Quemada Vives, Juan; Barra Arias, Enrique

Learning Objects have emerged in recent years in the field of educational technology as a key strategy for creating and delivering digital educational resources. The fundamental idea behind them is that educational ...

Match: learning objects; OER

Lane, Andrew; Law, Andrew

The Open University has made its open educational resources (OER) available through a number of different ?open channels?, or websites in different formats. The investigation of mass and individual user activity is not ...

Match: communities; OER

Balaji, Venkataraman

MOOC, OER and Mass Higher Education, May 2013 by Venkataraman Balaji, Commonwealth of Learning, Based on a report by Professor T V Prabhakar, IIT Kanpur // A key challenge facing the policy makers in many developing ...

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Schmidt-Jones, Catherine; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

There have been numerous calls for research that demonstrates how open education resources (OERs) are actually being used. This case study sought to shed light on the users of a well-visited set of modular ...

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Mei, Qi; Boyle, Tom

Open educational resources (OERs) are designed to be globally reusable. Yet comparatively little attention has been given to the cultural issues. This paper addresses the issue of culturally sensitive factors that may ...

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Panke, Stefanie; Seufert, Tina

In the last decade, the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) has gained an undeniable momentum. However, it is an easy trap to confuse download and registration rates with actual learning and interest in the ...

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Pons, Daniel; Hilera, Jose Ramon; Fernandez, Luis; Pages, Carmen

Virtual learning in engineering education uses e-learning resources in many different ways. These resources are normally stored in learning object repositories (LOR) where they are catalogued with metadata facilitating ...

Match: learning objects; repository