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• Success and Challenges in OER

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Heather R. Pena has published a paper on successes and challenges in in adopting and developing OER. From the article: Many leading institutions in higher education adopted the OER platform and face many challenges in this modern day world including: the rapid growth of technology, globalism, licensing, economic, ...
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• Learning Object Metadata is... (dead?); Long live Learning Object Metadata!

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  Is Learning Object Metadata (LOM) experiencing a rebirth? It was, as this item notes, recently reaffirmed as an IEEE standard (mostly, I would say, for lack of a viable alternative). But theres also a spike in searches for it, according to Google, perhaps in relation to a corresponding increase in searches for open ...
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• Implementing a socio- cultural ecology for learning at work – ideas and issues

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 421
  I have been invited to particpate in a workshop on ‘ Technology Enhanced Learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation ‘, being sponsored by the EU funded Stellar Network of Excellence at Garnisch in Germany at teh start of December. I am contributing to a session on Work Based ...
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• IRRODL special edition on openness and the future of higher education

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 552
  The International Review of Open and Distance Learning has just brought out a special issue, Vol. 10, No. 5, 2009 , edited by David Wiley and James Hilton III, on openness and the future of education. Table of Contents Editorial: Openness and the Future of Higher Education David Wiley, John Hilton III ...
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• Presentation prep/notes for -> Open Educational Resources – A potential foundation for the future.

  
  Dave's Educational Blog — Authority: 448
  Thursday November 5th, 4pm Eastern NA. GLOBAL TIMES In May i had the wonderful opportunity to try a live slide build as part of the WIAOC (webheads in action online convergence). They were a great crowd, and the build was awesome. It was the first success that I’ve had with that kind of live interactive slide ...
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• Barriers to effective use of open educational resources in developing countries

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 552
  Hatakka, M. (2009) Build it and they will come? Inhibiting factors for re-use of open content in developing countries The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries , Vol. 37. No. 5, pp. 1-16 From the abstract: Despite the benefits of open content the usage is very low in developing ...
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• Open educational resources in developing countries

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 552
  Commonwealth of Learning (2009) OERs: the promise and the pitfalls, Connections , October Although fairly brief, the article contains some useful links on OERs
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• Call for action on open education from NMC and the Open University of Catalonia

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 552
  A communiqué has just been released about the outcome of the Open Ed Tech conference held jointly by NMC and UOC in Barcelona October 19-20, 2009. Summary ‘Summit attendees generated fifty action items necessary to realize the goal of creating an institution truly responsive to the needs of students today ...
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• Finding OERs

  
  TALL blog — Authority: 448
  One of the biggest challenge for OERs is getting used.  Despite many large scale projects I suspect most would say that uptake is relatively disappointing. I am sure the new JISC funded OER projects won’t be satisfied with only making everything available in JORUM – but it will be interesting to see what you ...
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• The problem with educational metadata

  
  TALL blog — Authority: 448
  Continuing to think around the information to provide around our OpenSpires content it is reminding me how problematic educational metadata is.  It seems obvious that learning objects or OERs should be discoverable by metadata describing things such as, subject and educational level and it is arguably desirable ...
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• Access to Open Educational Resources

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  Wiki publication (theres also a PDF version) summarizing discussion from the community held in February and March 2009. "Part One gives an overview of the various constraints that limit access to OER, while Part Two documents some tested or proposed solutions or approaches. The access challenges and solutions ...
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• OERs for teachers or learners?

  
  TALL blog — Authority: 448
  I am sure most OER projects would say both…but in looking at this area recently it is clear there is a fundamental difference in expectations between making your OER available in iTunesU or YouTube and placing it in a repository – yet most of the debate in this area does not make the distinction. In Oxford we ...
  3 weeks ago

• Open Access and Publishing on Line

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 421
  It is Open Access Week and here at Pontydysgu we are committed to doing our bit to support the cause. We have a large archive of papers and books to which one or another of us has contributed at some time or other. None of it is going to be a best seller but some of the papers and books may be of interest to ...
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• GLOBE meeting - OER and its growing importance

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  GLOBE still exists, apparently, and now advocates open educational resources (OERs). Great. But the international group of repositories has never answered to my satisfaction (or at all) the question: how can you reconcile open access with an access federation? Garry Putland, Garrys Rambles, October 19, 2009 [Tags: ...
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• Open Access – they still don’t get it

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 421
  I was going to – and still will – write a post celebrating Open Access Week. But it was somewhat ironic on the first day of the week to receive an evaluation report on a project we submitted under the so called valorisation strand of the Lifelong Learning Programme which focused on the use of social networking and ...
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• UNESCO OER Toolkit

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  From the email release: "Today the UNESCO OER Toolkit (with support from the UNESCO Communications and Information Sector) was released as a resource for academics and institutions -- with a special focus on developing countries -- who are interested in participating in open education projects." The toolkit is a basic ...
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• A vision for the future: Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 2

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 552
  Identifying the problem with higher education in the 21st was the easy part ( Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 1 ). Much more difficult is finding solutions to the problem. Summary of the problem In Part 1 , I argued that the challenge for universities today is that ...
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• Open Courses: Free, but Oh, So Costly

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  In a longish article that puts the worst possible spin on open educational resources (OERs) the Chonicle the Chronicle points to the unsustainability of large funding models and asserts that "student scribblers" will be unable to make up for the loss of the big ticket programs. It also describes the phenomenon of open ...
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• Free Education - Sustaining Open Source Curriculum?

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  Article in Huffington Post advocating open educational resources (OERs) and describing Curriki (sort for curriculum wiki), a major source of such materials. The author, who is executive director of the Curriki project, then describes a number of sustainability models being considered by the site. Barbara Kurshan, ...
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• New book on the open education movement

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 552
  Bonk, C. (2009) The World is Open San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley From the publisher’s synopsis As technologies have become more available, even in the most remote reaches of the world, and as more people contribute a wealth of online resources, the education world has become open to anyone anywhere. ...
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