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Lane, Andy; Law, Andrew

This case study outlines and characterises the broad range of public engagement activities using media technologies undertaken by The Open University (OU) and in particular draws out how both open access and open ...

Match: Lane, Andy; openlearn; United Kingdom

Burgos Aguilar, José Vladimir; Cox, Glenda; Czerniewicz, Laura; D'Antoni, Susan; et al.

Open Educational Resources (OER) – that is, teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free to others to use, revise and share – offer a powerful means of expanding the reach and effectiveness ...

Match: Lane, Andy; technology

An initiative worked so well in the state's community colleges that Oregon plans to expand it to public universities.

Match: higher education; policy; textbooks

Lane, Andy; Law, Andrew; Connolly, Teresa; Scott, Peter J.; Okada, Alexandra

Open Educational Resources comprise many types of assets, including rich media. However, dynamic rich media offer different opportunities and challenges for learners, teachers, and higher education institutions alike ...

Match: Lane, Andy; higher education

Lane, Andy

This paper reviews some of the literature on the sustainability of Open Educational Resources (OER) and what it has to say about successful or sustainable open content projects on the internet.

Match: Lane, Andy; openlearn

Lane, Andy; Connolly, Teresa; Ferreira, Giselle; McAndrew, Patrick; et al.

Open educational resources are largely a phenomenon of the Web, although they can be used as offline resources. We have provided a rough guide to the OER world, and OpenLearn in particular in the case study, ...

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Lane, Andy; McAndrew, Patrick; Santos, A.

Open Educational Resources (OER) give an openly available set of content and tools that in principle provide a basis for formal and informal communication and collaboration between groups of individuals around teaching ...

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Kirschner, Paul A.; Varvick, Peter; van Dorp, Cornelis Adrianus; Lane, Andy

In contrast to the face-to-face learning of campus based universities and the focus on traditional students, distance teaching universities focus on a mix of distance learning, e-learning, open learning, virtual ...

Match: Lane, Andy; higher education

Lane, Andy; Connolly, Teresa; Okada, Alexandra; Scott, Peter J.

This chapter examines the role that open educational resources might play in widening participation in higher education. It begins by highlighting the perceived importance of widening participation in higher education ...

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Lane, Andy

Openness has been a feature of higher education for many decades, particularly through the establishment of open universities, although there remain debates about what openness means in practice. Digital technologies, ...

Match: Lane, Andy; higher education