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The Campus Alberta Open Educational Resources Initiative
(2015-03-13)
The Campus Alberta Open Educational Resources Initiative (AlbertaOER.com) aims to provide publicly funded post-secondary institutions in Alberta the opportunity to apply for funding to support the assembly, use, development, ...
Open education down under: Some national and institutional initiatives.
(2015-03-13)
The Open Education movement is growing and gaining importance within the higher education landscape in many developing and developed nations. Unfortunately, this does not seem the case in Australia, as there is still a ...
Sustainability Strategies For Open Educational Resources
(2015-03-13)
Open Educational Resources (OER) often start as pilot projects initiated by early innovators in higher education institutions. Others are initiated by government. Frequently these projects receive some kind of start up ...
Preparing for the Digital University
(2015-03-13)
Large sectors of society are digitizing, resulting in changed practices in journalism, entertainment, and business in general. Higher education is not immune to these changes. Digitization processes are well underway and ...
The Battle for Open
(2015-03-13)
Open approaches in education have started to move into the mainstream, with the success of open access, MOOCs, and open scholarship approaches. After this initial success comes the period when the real direction of openness ...
The Open Library at AU (Athabasca University): supporting open access and open educational resources
(Open Praxis, 2015)
To address challenges that learners, course creators, librarians and academics involved with OER and
MOOCs are facing when looking for scholarly materials, Athabasca University Library has initiated the
development of ...
The Digital Reading Room at Athabasca University
(Code4Lib Alberta, 2015)
thabasca University Library has used a Digital Reading Room (DRR) to support courses for almost 10 years. While the old version of the DRR remained successful and functional, it was out of date and we embarked on a complete ...
The Open Library at AU: Supporting Open Access and Open Educational Resources
(OE Global 2015, 2015)
In recent years, there has been a shift toward “openness” in higher education, with the growth of Open Access and Open Educational Resources (OERs) and the advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). There is also ...
Digitizing Documents on the Athabasca River Basin
(Athabasca River Basin Research Institute (ARBRI) Day, 2015)
The Repository expands upon ARBRI’s existing bibliography by providing accessibility to an extensive body of
research and scholarly information relating to the Athabasca River Basin by digitizing materials, such as ...