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OER's and Sustainable Innovation: Low Cost, Low Risk but High Impact
(2011-11-04)
This session will include a description of the UNESCO Chair in OER network including an update on the mandate of the Chair and the developments so far. These include agreement on support for a network of UNESCO Chairs in ...
Maximizing library presence while minimizing online maintenance
(2011-04-08)
This paper presents challenges and opportunities for an academic library to increasing its presence in an online learning management system (LMS). Successful examples from Athabasca University, Canada’s Open University ...
Open Minds Open Access - Conference Presentation
(2012-05-11)
Digital Collections - What's out there?, How do you find it?, How do you know what you can do with it? This presentation is one of three presentations at the Open Minds Open Access Conference, held on May 10, 2012, at ...
Ed.D. Orientation, 2012
(2012-08-15)
From Gatekeeping to Gate Opening: An Evolving Role for Academic Libraries
(2013-02-26)
In the past the academic library has focused its energy on building collections and developing mechanisms to provide access to content. Library services developed around the role of being the gatekeeper to the content, be ...
Fun and Fear in Open Spaces
(2011-10-27)
This presentation presents the theory and practice of Open Learning as implemented in Athabasca University’s Beyond the LMS social networking system. The presentation discusses the motivation , design and challenges ...
Post Secondary Leadership and the OER Movement
(2011-10-27)
ER provide both opportunity and anxiety to University Administrators. While they see possible savings, at the same time they see new expenditures without accompanying revenues. Little understanding exists by either ...
The OER university: A sustainable model for more affordable education futures
(2012-10-26)
Open education provides unprecedented opportunities for universities to provide more affordable access to post-secondary education for all students worldwide. OER is a sustainable and renewable resource.
The OER university ...
"Open and Closed" Getting the mix right. Who gets to Decide??
(2012-10-26)
Despite the desirability of "Making Open the Default" as the theme of this year’s open access week, there are many reasons that can and should influence a person and an organization to restrict access to content. In this ...
Sleeping with the Elephant – Leveraging AU’s Position through Open Courseware
(2012-10-26)
There has been an explosion of content in open (and not-so-open) forms in recent years, much of it highly relevant to Distance Education. It can be asserted that AU’s claim to fame is less the creation of content than the ...