Peer-support and Open Educational Resources
Published | March 2012 |
Series | Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open Educational Resources Chapter 14, Pages 253-271 |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Editors | Okada, Alexandra · Scott, Peter J. · Connolly, Teresa |
ABSTRACT
Traditionally, the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has focused on the production, distribution, and retrieval of open content. There is, however, more to OER than the resources alone. For OER to function properly, underlying communities are needed to support learners and teachers in the use, development, and dissemination of OER. A central question is how learners and teachers can be supported in their use of OER, while at the same time building up and sustaining the needed community. These support and community formation aspects are especially important in a non-formal context. Peer-support is claimed to be ideal for providing encouragement as well as building up of a community. In this chapter, an explanation is given of peer support in a non-formal learning context, called Ad Hoc Transient Groups. These help to foster collaboration in OER networks. Based on this concept, the chapter presents the design of a stakeholder-validated peer support service. Some related work pointing out how peer support for non-formal learning with OER can be best organized is then given.Keywords | non-formal learning · peer support · teacher professional development · OER dissemination · OER development |
ISBN | ISBN13: 9781466603004, ISBN10: 1466603003, EISBN13: 9781466603011 |
DOI | 10.4018/978-1-4666-0300-4.ch014 |
URL | http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/peer-support-open-educational-resources/64410 |
Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
Viewed by 103 distinct readers
CLOUD COMMUNITY REVIEWS
The evaluations below represent the judgements of our readers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cloud editors.










Click a star to be the first to rate this document
▶ POST A COMMENT
SIMILAR RECORDS
Design for collective intelligence: Pop-up communities in MOOCs
Garreta-Domingo, Muriel; Sloep, Peter B.; Hérnandez-Leo, Davinia; Mor, Yishay
Many current authors point toward the heightening of networked individualism and how this affects community creation and engagement. This trend poses strong challenges to the potential beneficial effects of collective ...
Match: sloep, peter b.
Reimagining professional development of teachers across levels
Kasinathan, Gurumurthy
Match: teacher professional development
MOOCs for teacher professional development: Reflections and suggested actions
Pradeep Misra
Teacher Professional Development (TPD) has become a major policy priority within education systems worldwide. But keeping teachers professionally up-to-date and providing them professional development opportunities on ...
Match: teacher professional development
The TESSA OER Experience: Building sustainable models of production and user implementation
Wolfenden, Freda
This paper offers a review of the origins, design strategy and implementation plans of the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) research and development programme. The programme is working to develop new ...
Match: teacher professional development
OER’s in Sub-Saharan Africa – An appropriate response to the challenge of education for all? The TESSA experience in Zambia.
Dart, Gareth
The initiatives of Education For All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have helped put the debate surrounding basic education firmly in the educational, developmental and economic spotlight. They have ...
Match: teacher professional development
MOOCs for teacher professional development: Reflections and suggested actions
Misra, Pradeep
Teacher Professional Development (TPD) has become a major policy priority within education systems worldwide. But keeping teachers professionally up-to-date and providing them professional development opportunities on ...
Match: teacher professional development
Open educational resources and change in higher education: Reflections from practice
Glennie, Jenny; Harley, Ken; Butcher, Neil; van Wyk, Trudy
In the last decade in particular, the promotion, sharing and use of open educational resources (OER) have been growing exponentially. However, as with any new phenomenon or paradigm, our knowledge of OER’s ...
Match: teacher professional development
Using OERs to improve teacher quality: emerging findings from TESSA
Wolfenden, Freda; Umar, Abdurrahman; Aguti, Jessica; Gafar, Amani Abdel
Recent UNESCO EFA reports draw attention to the importance of teacher quality for improving pupil achievement in schools (UNESCO 2009, 2010). The TESSA international consortium (Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa) ...
Match: teacher professional development
Who are the open learners? A comparative study profiling non-formal users of open educational resources
Farrow, Rob; de los Arcos, Beatriz; Pitt, R.; Weller, M.
Open educational resources (OER) have been identified as having the potential to extend opportunities for learning to non-formal learners. However, little research has been conducted into the impact of OER on non-formal ...
Match: non-formal learning
Who are the open learners? A comparative study profiling non-formal users of open educational resources
Weller, Martin; Farrow, Robert; de los Arcos, Beatriz; Pitt, Rebecca
Open educational resources (OER) have been identified as having the potential to extend opportunities for learning to non-formal learners. However, little research has been conducted into the impact of OER on non-formal ...
Match: non-formal learning