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Panel on Open Library, Scholarship and Learning at Athabasca University
(2010-10-22)Tony Tin, founder of Athabasca University's digital content repository, AUSpace, discusses the organization of AUSpace, its benefits for open access support, researchers and organizations, and research findings of AUSpace ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Why think about culture in remix?
(2013-11-05)Remix is touted as one of the most important practices within the field of open educational resources (OER). But remixing is still not mainstream practice in education and the barriers and limitations to remix are not well ...