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Open access archives and repositories
(Open Access Week 2009, 2009)
Governments and research funding organizations are increasingly reluctant to fund research that is not widely distributed and affordable, creating the need for repositories through which scholars can legally distribute ...
Open Educational Resources and Copyright
(2010-10-21)
Dr Rory McGreal is the Assoc. Vice President of Research at Athabasca University. He is an expert on copyright law and its application to education and learning resources. He is also the editor of a bestselling book on ...
Open Opportunity through Open Scholarship and Open Publication
(2010-10-19)
Dr Frits Pannekoek is the President of Athabasca University and President of the International Council on Open and Distance Education. He is an advocate for the open distribution of scholarly works and has been the driving ...
Using Open Production of Course Content to make a Difference
(2010-10-19)
Dr. Wayne Mackintosh is the Director of the International Centre for Open Education based at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, member of the Board of Directors of the Open Education Foundation, and founder of the WikiEducator ...
Managing and Learning in MOOCs (massive open online courses)
(2010-10-21)
George Siemens, with Athabasca's Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute, is best known for his development of the pedagogical model of networked learning known as Connectivism. He and Steven Downes have pioneered ...
Bibliography of the Athabasca river basin: a digital tool for knowledge building and open access
(ABC Copyright Forum, 2010)
Athabasca University’s Athabasca River Basin Research Institute is developing a bibliography of the
Athabasca River Basin (BARB) as a digital tool to promote knowledge building and information sharing.
This highly ...
Panel on open library, scholarship and learning at Athabasca University
(Open Access Week 2010, 2010)
AUSpace: Building an effective institutional repository to support research communities and open access.
AUSpace is Athabasca University’s (AU) digital content repository. Its goal is to preserve and disseminate AU ...
OER and Mobile Learning
(2012-10-25)
Open Educational Resources (OER) constitute an important resource with the potential to facilitate the expansion of mobile learning worldwide. The flexibility, both technological and legal afforded by openly licensed ...
What are MOOCs doing to the Open Education?
(2013-11-05)
Higher education is now entering its second year of MOOC hype. The stream of almost daily pronouncements of additional universities joining existing MOOC providers, new funding, new MOOC offerings, and new reports continues ...
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 ...