Category: oer
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#oer13 liveblog – Policy Recommendations
Darco Jansen (Programme manager, EADTU) spoke about policies affecting OER use in higher education, questioning whether higher education has ever really changed that much in response to policy innovation. The full title of his talk: “Policy recommendations in the transition to open and online education: business models, policy incentives and…
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#oer13 live blog – Keynote by Toni Pearce
Toni – who is the NUS Vice President (Further Education) – reported on 22 focus groups comprising 185 students which explored online use of OER. While many students made use of OER, it was much more common for them to be used when they were endorsed or required by their teachers. Students…
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Educating in Beta
Current activity within open education can be characterised as having reached a beta phase of maturity. In much the same way that software progresses through a release life cycle, beta is the penultimate testing phase, after the initial alpha-testing phase, whereby the software is adopted beyond its original developer community.…
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Bright future or "learning rot"? Teacher education in India and the potential of OER
A mood of unsurprised disappointment amongst media commentators accompanied Friday’s release of India’s Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2012 on school registrations and standards in rural India. The Deccan Herald announced the report with the headline ‘RTE unable to stem learning rot amongst tots’, referring to the 2010-dated Right…
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Is there a 'spirit of open'?
The scope of open education gets ever broader, from the production, use and reuse of open textbooks, to the use of open educational resources (OER) for teacher education in developing countries, to the use of Creative Commons-licensed content in some MOOCS. But are these activities driven by and infused with…
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OER Hub: Looking Forward
One of the things that we need to do as the OER Hub project progresses is keep track of the various research and dissemination activities that we are involved with over the two year period. I have a couple of things to report on already… I’ll be writing a fuller…