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Excess copyright: How restrictive copyright legislation impedes technological innovation
(The Seventh International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology. ICCGI 2012, 2012-06-27)
This paper explains how copyright laws being
promoted by the USA are being used to prevent the
development of open educational resources. This includes a
brief history explaining the origins of copyright law leading ...
OER Readiness Tool
(2013-02-26)
Survey Instrument of OER use by staff at Athabasca University
Report on the assessment and accreditation of Learners using OER
(2013-09-17)
This report shares the findings and lessons learned from an investigation into the economics of disaggregated models for assessing and accrediting informal learners, with particular attention to the OER University (OERu) ...
Cloud computing and adult literacy: How cloud computing can sustain the promise of adult learning
(Datamatics Global Services Limited, 2013)
Adult literacy in Canada consists of a patchwork of large and small adult
education providers: many of them are autonomous community societies,
some are school boards, and others are community college based, as well
as ...
Formalising informal learning: Assessment and accreditation challenges within disaggregated systems
(Open Praxis, 2014)
This paper shares the findings and lessons learned from an investigation into the economics of disaggregated models for assessing and accrediting informal learners, with particular attention to the OER universitas (OERu) ...
AUPress: A Comparison of an Open Access University Press with Traditional Presses
(2011-08-30)
This study is a comparison of AUPress with three other traditional (non-open access) Canadian university
presses. The analysis is based on the rankings that are correlated with book sales on Amazon.com and
Amazon.ca. ...
NEXT GENERATION: TRANSFORMATION TO A 21ST CENTURY UNIVERSITY VIA CORE STRATEGIC PROJECTS
(EDEN, 2012-07-10)
thabasca University (AU) is recreating itself as a 21st century university. As an open and distance learning (ODL) university, its mandate is to remove barriers to university-level education. This is the vision and ...
Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice
(COL, Athabasca University, 2013-05)
Open Educational Resources (OER) – that is, teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free to others to use, revise and share – offer a powerful means of expanding the reach and effectiveness of ...
"Mobilising" web sites at open university: The Athabasca University experience
(MLearn 2012, 2012-03)
This mobile implementation study provides a general idea of how existing Athabasca University sites work with the
tested mobile devices and identifies the underlying issues as to why they work that way. Factors considered ...
Report on the Assessment and Accreditation of Learners using OER
(COL, 2013-07)
This report shares the findings and lessons learned from an investigation into the economics of disaggregated models for assessing and accrediting informal learners, with particular attention to the OER University (OERu) ...