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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? 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: I staked out something of a confrontational stance… that higher education is still conducting its business as if information is scarce when we now live in an era of unprecedented information abundance. Already, formal education is out of the picture in every way. Like this: Like Loading...
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Defining Open Educational Practices (OEP) 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. As you can see the project has a strong consortium with some significant players/representatives from across the EU. For us at the OU it builds nicely on two stands of related work – our work on OER (through the development of the OpenLearn site and more recently the Olnet initiative) and the OU Learning Design Initiative. So what do we mean by Open Educational Practices (OEP)? The stakeholders engaged with creating, using or supporting the use of OER.
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Content Directories Welcome to the Content Directories The following is a list of organizations and projects powered with Creative Commons licenses. Since Creative Commons does not maintain a database of content and does not store content, we would like CC-community members to help build a directory of projects to help spread the word about CC — hence the CC Content Directories wiki! What is an appropriate entry for Content Directories? Many of the listings in the Content Directories are organizations that provide services using Creative Commons licenses. Not certain that something should be added to this list? How to add an entry to Content Directories To get started, simply add the name of the organization or project in the box below.
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.