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This article is about opportunities and challenges of open educational resources for higher education. Moreover, some open educational resources examples such as MIT Open Course Ware (http://ocw.mit.edu) are given.

It's quite useful for us to see the pros and cons of OERs in higher education in the very well written paper. Thanks Sibel!

David Wiley's, one of the pioneers in the field of open education, blog is here. You can find many beneficial sources and reflections prepared by him concerning open education.

What began as modest and sometimes heroic efforts by faculty members to use resources and materials found on the Internet to provide their students with alternatives to buying expensive textbooks has blossomed into the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, which is gaining traction nationwide.

"MOOC and online courses are changing the face of higher education. Here are some details on how some colleges are adapting." This infographic shows that MOOCs will not replace traditional, residential classes at least in the near future contrary to popular belief among some MOOC fans. The biggest reason behind MOOCs complementary role in education could be their unidirectional nature which makes it difficult for students to receive personalized/differentiated instruction, in-depth feedback, and other mediums for deep learning. Nevertheless, they offer great resources for those highly motivated, self-directed/regulated learners. Another interesting issue in the infographic is that the U.S. colleges, at least almost 60% of them, are willing to integrate online component into their regular college education; I really wonder what statistics our Turkish universities would provide. :)

"I really wonder what statistics our Turkish universities would provide." This is a good research question Yasin and I would really like to learn the answer. :) Bets anyone? :)

An infographic about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

AtademiX, MOOC platform maintained by Distance Education Center at Atatürk University, offers several courses to anybody. I plan to enroll in "Kişilik tiplerine göre öğrencilerle iletişim kurma becerileri" course. I think this course will be helpful to all teachers in any grade level.

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. Search peer reviewed open educational resources (OER), create Course ePortfolios, Bookmark Collections, and Learning Exercises, and build your own learning materials with our Content Builder.

Brief introduction to Open Educational Reosurces

Camtasia gives you the tools you need to record on-screen activity, edit and enhance your content, and share in high-quality to viewers anywhere, and you can facilitate in your open education content creation. It's beyond useful!

'The Many Faces of TPACK: Perspectives and Approaches" is a Wikibook created as part of the Research and Practice on Technology in Teacher Education Course (EDS 536) taught at Middle East Technical University in Spring 2013.

Ooo.. This is our online book which is the product of EDS536_2013. Lucky us as you :) Thanx Ahsen!

Since online networks and communities have opened new avenues for teacher professional development and connectedness, it is of paramount importance for us to explore the ways on how to make the best use of them. From my standpoint, it is not sufficient to introduce or sign up for them, we, at the same time, need to think how to maximize and optimize our experiences on such platforms. At the end of the day, we may find ourselves on the margins of such communities and networks only consuming or wandering aimlessly. :)

An open-source technology education movement that partners with educators in schools and learning centers to deliver courses to young people. Aim of this movement is to encourage students to work together as teams to find real issues they care about and learn to build a mobile, web or social app to solve them which makes it good in that it helps learners to be productive.

This site enables one to research his/her online options with our database of more than 1,600 schools by filtering his/her choices by subject, degree level, tuition, and more to find an online school that will fit his/her needs.

The world's educational philosophy has been changed , and now that we can reach all off the sources online with a computer and Internet connection. This database is quite a beneficial source in terms of its vast filter and content.

Here you can find the Turkish version of globally-appreciated Khan Academy. Its Turkish version makes it possible to use in K-12 education and any other educational contexts where medium of instruction is Turkish. Moreover, you can contribute to the translation of the content into Turkish and become a brand ambassador.

He really work intensively to promote MOOCS and OERs.

This is a research study carried out in Turkey. To assess pre-service English as a foreign language teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge, Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Scale was used and students were asked to answer some open-ended questions. The results of the study revealed a highly developed knowledge of TPACK among undergraduate students of an ELT program at a public university in Turkey. On the basis of the results, it is suggested that the integration of content, pedagogy and technological knowledge into the existing teacher education paradigm and fostering technologically-rich environment for language learners will contribute to quality learning and teaching.

Take free online classes from 115+ top universities and educational organizations. We partner with schools like Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and others to offer courses in dozens of topics, from computer science to teaching and beyond. Whether you are pursuing a passion or looking to advance your career, Coursera provides open, free education for everyone.

This may help to overcome Discovery challenge of Open Education Resources

Creative Commons is a thing when you are into OER business. This kinda infographic showed its pathway in a clear way. Thanks, Özlem!