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Multiple-Choice Item File Upload Item Media Item Extended Text Item Graphic Gap Interaction. Oer.ualberta.ca. You are here Resources Feedback on these toolkits is much appreciated.

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Please contact us at info@albertaoer.com and let us know your thoughts! Click to view full size Why Open Education Matters from Blink Tower on Vimeo. Password: OER from Laura Rachfalski on Vimeo. "At the moment the OER movement is taking its first steps beyond a culture focused around "my site" towards a culture that is focused around "our commons.

" Most people who create OER sites have a sense of who they expect their users to be and what needs those users have. This is all to the good, if it is not to the exclusion of those users whose needs--or innovations--we have totally failed to imagine. " Towards a Global Learning Commons. OER and you. The curation mandate. At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate.

OER and you. The curation mandate

The Twiter feed shows the buzz around the trending event and it shows school librarians were at the table. As the initiative moves forward, it is critical for us to choose to be at the head of this particular table. Hosted at the beautiful Skywalker Ranch, Friday’s #GoOpen Exchange engaged major players in education from the White House and the DOE, as well as state officials, leaders of non-profits and learning institutions, the biggest names in e-commerce and technology, developers, vendors, publishers, state officials, administrators, leading. Leadership strategies in mobile English as a Second Language training. Djenana Jalovcic, Linda McCloud-Bondoc, and Anthony Ralston Athabasca University, Canada Abstract This paper reviews a pilot mobile learning project for English as a Second Language implemented by a unimodal distance education institution to present an argument favouring the use of a distributed leadership approach for sustainability of the project.

Leadership strategies in mobile English as a Second Language training

The authors’ position is grounded in the literature which suggests that distributed leadership in mobile and distance learning can provide a framework for sustainability of this project. Write Site. A Decade of Dedication: AU's Write Site sets students up for assignment success. Linda McCloud-Bondoc facilitates the university’s writing service from her Calgary office, but for a decade it’s proven to be an indispensable resource for AU students around the globe.

A Decade of Dedication: AU's Write Site sets students up for assignment success.

She’s one of the founding members of Write Site—AU’s fully online writing centre. It’s much like those you would find in bricks-and-mortar universities—but because it’s “AU” Write Site’s services are “accessible to students wherever they happen to be—whether that’s in Malaysia or Ireland,” says McCloud-Bondoc. The Site’s purpose is to help students at both the undergraduate and graduate-levels who are struggling with their academic writing skills. When it comes to course-assigned writing and research papers, Write Site will help develop a student’s writing skills over a period of time, often with several assignments being submitted at various junctures, within an array of courses, by the student for input. Open Educational Resources - Babson Survey Research Group.

Inflection Point: Educational Resources in U.S.

Open Educational Resources - Babson Survey Research Group

Higher Education, 2019 Inflection Point: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2019 The model of course material distribution and selection is at an inflection point. After decades of only minor changes to how faculty discovered and adopted textbooks for There is a growing acceptance (even preference) by faculty for digital materials. OER Commons. OER KnowledgeCloud. What is OER? - Creative Commons. What are Open Educational Resources (OER)? Open educational resources (OER) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes. Open Education "...is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge.

" Browse OER Materials. Open educational resources. UNESCO Global Open Educational Resources Logo Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.

Open educational resources

There is no universal usage of open file formats in OER. The term OER describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-mix, improve and redistribute under some licenses.[1] The development and promotion of open educational resources is often motivated by a desire to provide an alternate or enhanced educational paradigm.[2] Definition and scope[edit] teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

The above definitions expose some of the tensions that exist with OER: These definitions also have common elements, namely they all: History[edit] Learning how to explore and visualize your data with NVivo. Collective Intelligence for OER Sustainability. Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2008. Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2008. OpenScout Personal Development Planner - PDP.

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The OERs - Open Educational Resources. Broadcast Yourself.