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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 ...

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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 ...

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Schuwer, Robert; Lane, Andy; Counotte-Potman, Anda; Wilson, Martina

In most cases the initial production and publication of OER is undertaken by a University and funded through a special project with grants from external bodies. In this phase, OER are developed both from scratch or ...

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Schuwer, Robert; Wilson, Tina; van Valkenburg, Willem; Lane, Andy

In most initiatives to publish Open Educational Resources (OER), the production of OER is the activity with the highest costs. Based on literature and personal experiences a list of relevant characteristics of ...

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Open educational resources (OER) have become a significant part of the general discourse around higher education and a number of institutions and governments have implemented initiatives to develop and use OER on the ...

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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, ...

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Lane, Andy; Comas-Quinn, Anna; Thompson, Simon

This special issue is the fifth devoted to Open Educational Resources (OER) and the fourth to be drawn from papers presented at the annual UK-based OER conference. For this special issue, the editors selected papers ...

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Bateman, Peter; Lane, Andy; Moon, Bob

This paper describes how a typology was developed and used between 2008 and 2010 to investigate three different open educational resources (OER) initiatives in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The typology was first developed ...

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Bateman, Peter; Lane, Andy; Moon, Robert

The investigation of OER initiatives requires rigorous appraisal based on theory as well as descriptions based on practice if we are to understand them and how they might be sustained. A robust typology or flexible ...

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Lane, Andy; Iiyoshi, Toru; Kumar, M. S. V.

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