Open Educational Resources - Emerging Technologies for Learning. Entrepreneurship and Leadership. OER Project. There are many ways you can help develop the OER Project and the open educational community.
Below you will find a list of ways you can volunteer a few minutes of your time. Pages Pages that are open to edits: Pages closed to public edits (you can make comments and suggestions by visiting their corresponding Talk pages): Databases We maintain several wiki-databases related to OER. ODEPO (Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations) is a wiki-database of organizations involved in providing educational content online. OER Resources OER Resources is a database of resources about OER such as articles, publications, news, videos, etc. Adding a page To add a page to the OER project, simply call the template {{OER Nav}} on the page. Edubloggerdir - home. 250 Free Online Courses from Top Universities.
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Last week I attended the kick off meeting for an exciting new EU-funded project, OPAL, from the website: The Open Educational Quality Initiative will focus on provision of innovative open educational practices and promote quality, innovation and transparency in higher and adult education. Beginning in January 2010, the two-year OPAL Initiative is a partnership between seven organizations including ICDE, UNESCO and ICDE member institution, the Open University UK, and will be coordinated by the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
The project is part funded by the European Commission Education and Training Lifelong Learning Programme. As you can see the project has a strong consortium with some significant players/representatives from across the EU. It is also an important and timely project given the increasing focus and interest in Open Educational Resources (OER). 10 Power Tools for Lifelong Learners. Do we need Open Educational Resources (OER)? « Learn Online. Santtu at the helm by wili_hybrid When I get a free minute I try to get through some of my feedreader.
Unfortunately I don’t get very far into it because Abject Learning is first in the list. This time Brian is questioning the need for OER, and I have to say I largely share his position, it is over rated in the grand scheme of things. One of the other participants asked a question that resonated with me: if we live in an era of information abundance, why is the primary drive around OERs the publication of more content? And what other activities around the open education movement might be an effective use of our energies? The predictable response from content centric OER proponents relates to copyright and freedom, OER content is “free”. But as Brian points out, this is increasingly a non issue: Already, formal education is out of the picture in every way.
The rhetoric about freedom and moralistic argument in OER amps up non-the-less. Like this: Like Loading... Educational Transformation through Technology at MIT. DiscoverEd from ccLearn. What is a Super OER? « Community College Consortium for Open Edu. Access2OER_final_report.pdf (application/pdf Object) OpenEducationalResources_OECDreport.pdf (application/pdf Object) Internet Archive: Free Downloads: Open Educational Resources< Open Learning Initiative.