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Directory of OER repositories | Thoughts on Open Education
Tweet #OER Last update: 6th August 2014 – Thanks to @OERhub team – @nopiedra – @EbbaOssian for sharing the data collected in their projects After weeks and weeks digging on the internet, reviewing hundreds of OER initiatives, projects, blogs and hashtags, and also harassing other OER enthusiasts and experts in twitter, I managed to develop a first version of a directory of OER repositories. This version only includes the name of the repository, the URL and the country of the initiative and there are 73 OER repositories associated. I deliberatively did not include OWC, Institutional Repositories (articles, reports, thesis), ITunesU, MOOC initiatives, Open TextBooks, OpenAccess Repositories, sets of content that are not under CC licences such as BBC, or hybrid content repositories because this research is based on repositories of Open Educational Resources only. See the directory here: Name: Academic Earth URL: Country: United States Javiera Atenas Like this:
MOOC
MOOC (acrónimo en inglés de massive open online course[1] y traducido al español como curso en línea masivo y abierto (CEMA)[nota 1] ) es una modalidad de educación abierta, la cual se observa en cursos de pregrado ofrecidos gratuitamente a través de plataformas educativas en Internet;[2] cuya filosofía es la liberación del conocimiento para que este llegue a un público más amplio. El término MOOC fue acuñado en el año 2008 por Dave Cormier[3] cuando el número de inscritos a su curso «Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08)» aumentó a casi dos mil trescientos (2300) estudiantes. Requisitos[editar] Para que la enseñanza a distancia pueda ser considerada MOOC debe cumplir los siguientes requisitos: Tipos[editar] Existen diferentes tipos de MOOC, en función de los objetivos, metodologías y resultados que se esperan. xMOOC: Se basan en cursos universitarios tradicionales que parecen reproducir la pedagogía de la tecnología del aula. Breve historia[editar] MOOC en Iberoamerica[editar]
Ideas to Inspire
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A resource series is a sub-set of resources within a collection. The following list of the resource series are available to guest users. The resource series are managed and updated by the NCLOR staff. Open to all users and Guests Like this: Like Loading...
¿Qué son los MOOCs?
¿Qué son los MOOCs? El término MOOC es tan novedoso que existen pocas definiciones, aunque en la Wikipedia ya existe un artículo sobre los MOOCs en inglés: A Massive open online course (MOOC) is a course where the participants are distributed and course materials also are dispersed across the web. This is possible only if the course is open, and works significantly better if the course is large. Otra defición la podemos encontrar en MOOC Definition from Financial Times Lexicon: Mooc is an acronym for "massive open online course". El siguiente vídeo Breve (muy breve) historia de los MOOCs te cuenta algunos detalles sobre el origen de los MOOCs: Es indudable la influencia y el efecto dominó que está teniendo que las mejores universidades del mundo como Harvard University, Stanford University o el Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ofrezcan sus propios MOOCs. ¿Qué va a pasar con el resto de universidades? El conocimiento que circula con libertad y sin barreras llegará más lejos.
Storytelling Activities & Lesson Ideas
Storytelling Activities & Lesson Ideas This collection of storytelling activities-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students, teachers, and librarians-can be expanded by educators into language arts lesson plans to support speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Storytellers on Tour 1001 Nights Festival A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words A Story Treasure Hunt Old Time Radio Show Finding Stories in Songs Story Circle Local Historians Collecting Family Stories Puzzle Tale: Putting the Pieces Together Front Door: An Imaginary Journey Chain Sentence Describing a Stone Spontaneous Poetry The Autobiography of Anything Devising Plot Structures: Creating New Tales Proverbs: Wisdom Tales Without the Plot Creating Personal Fables Storytelling Festival Day Art History is Filled with Stories Storytellers on Tour Have students practice retelling folktales in their classroom. A Picture is Worth 1000 Words A class selects a classical painting. Setting Problem: End
OER in Australia
OER in Australia OER is a global phenomenon and whilst it is currently concentrated in a few countries, there are a growing number of good OER websites in Australia: Scootle has over 1500 learning resources made available under CC licenses by Education Services Australia. The Australian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (ACARA) offers the Australian curriculum as an OER. The University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW) provides OER and sample courses from 5 faculties including science and technology. First Steps is a WA Department of Education website which offers OER on literacy, maths and physical education. Charles Darwin University offers a digital repository of endangered literature in Australian Indigenous languages from around the Northern Territory as OER. The NSW Department of Education and Communities offers six OER set out in creative and interactive web-layouts: Julius Caesar is a resource for senior students studying Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".
Open educational resources (OERs)
There is no one, standard definition of open educational resources. However, the following broad definition of OERs from OER Commons seems to be generally accepted by the community: 'Open educational resources are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.' OERs exist within a wider ‘open’ movement and context, explored below. The open movement Many of these have been driven by and created by communities that recognise the benefits to themselves, and sometimes to wider groups. What are educational resources? What are open educational resources? Engagement with OER can be light touch. Finding OERs
OER KnowledgeCloud
The UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning has funded the filming of five regional consultations on OER leading to the 2nd International Summit on OER in Ljubljana in September. They are openly licensed and available here: Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East & North Africa From the Atlantic: Academics Want You to Read Their Work for Free. Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive. See the Florida Virtual University's 2016 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey with responses from 22,000 students. The curricula provider Great Minds is suing FedEx in New York City federal court, arguing that the delivery, printing and photocopying company should compensate the educational organization for the money FedEx makes from requests from schools to copy materials that Great Minds created and makes available for free, on an open license.
