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Issues in OER: Panel Presentation
(2011-03-21)
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are becoming increasingly popular in educational institutions. OERs include all educational resources - normally digital in nature such as learning objects, open courseware, etc. that can ...
Report on UNESCO/COL Workshop New York June 18 - 19 2011
(2011-07-17)
A description of a UNESCO Chair meeting of participants outlining the presentations and recording the goals and meeting outcomes.
"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 ...
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) ...
Findings from a survey of openness in assessment and accreditation practices in post-secondary institutions
(2013-06-07)
This working paper shares the findings and lessons learned from a small-scale survey on perceptions, practices and policies relating to openness in assessment and accreditation in post-secondary institutions. The study was ...
Open Educational Resources: Opportunities for Ontario
(Author, 2011-10)
Contact North sets out the case for OER and how their adoption can benefit all the
key stakeholders in post-secondary education in Ontario. It then considers
the challenges that such changes pose for the various groups ...
The Anti- IPA Position Paper: A reply from an Educator
(2013-05-29)
This paper is a "REVISED" version of a position paper released by the International Publishers' Association. ALL the arguments that they use against OER are in fact arguments supportive of OER and against commercial content. ...
A comparison of AU Press with traditional university presses: Two years later
(ElPub, 2012-06)
This paper followus up on an analysis conducted in 2010 comparing an open access press with traditional university presses based on Amazon rankings. The findings support the previous research that there is no significant ...
The Open Educational Resources Movement:: Free learning for all students
(IEEE, 2012-07-05)
In recent years, the term Open Educational Resources (OER) has emerged, aiming to promote open access to digital educational resources that are available online for everyone at a global level [1]. The term was first adopted ...