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A David Wiley Mooc all about Openness in Education

A collaboration of higher ed institutions to allow people to gain formal academic credits for work done through open educational resources. A huge undertaking; it will be interesting to see how it pans out.

OLnet is an international research hub for aggregating, sharing, debating and improving Open Educational Resources (OER). The aim of OLnet is to gather evidence and methods about how we can research and understand ways to learn in a more open world, particularly linked to OER, but also looking at other influences. * The Evidence Hub has a lot of interesting content, but beware of an annoying Google API pop-up!

An article that provides a historical context to OE

What is/ are: Open Education (OE), Online Learning (OL), Open Education Resources (OERs)? - a useful list of links from the Higher Education Academy

Looks at lessons learnt over past 10 years of OERs and also at the work of OLNet

Patrick McAndrew talks about MOOCs lack of openness.

Trend Report: Open Educational Resources 2013

I like the look and feel of this more than some of the more traditional repositories, although perhaps it's a bit superficial. It's also using more 'Web 2.0' type apps and practices such as Twitter/Disqus/Youtube and the 'Following' options Online learning platform that makes teaching simpler and learning more effective for educators and organizations. Adapt web content and tools to fit learner needs.

A number of search engines exist to search Open Educational Resources and are included on this page

A short history of OER, info on find and sharing OER, rationale and benefits, and more. All from UK OER perspective.

This project provided objective, ongoing evaluation and synthesis of the HEFCE funded pilot programme which was run in collaboration between the Higher Education Academy and JISC through three linked activities: A framework tool provided a strong foundation and common language for collating data from projects.