Openness is a fundamental value underlying significant changes in society and is a prerequisite to changes institutions of higher education need to make in order to remain relevant to the society in which they exist”
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The Bookaneers: Open Access to Open Educational Resources - 0 views
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Rob there is some good info in here about costs of books and journal fees that might be useful for the arguments about OER saving Murdoch money for the white paper.
Open access is the future of academic publishing, says Finch report | Science | guardia... - 0 views
Open access: six myths to put to rest | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional - 0 views
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books - 0 views
Open, free access to academic research? This will be a seismic shift | David Willetts |... - 0 views
Murdoch University Events » Developing the Scalable Open-Access Digital Textb... - 1 views
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you beat me again!
Openness as counter-narrative (#OMDE) | opendistanceteachingandlearning - 0 views
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Exploring the complex “supersystem” of higher education, Wiley and Hilton (2009) state that there is an alarming disconnect between higher education and broader society or “supersystem”. The major six disconnections, according to Wiley and Hilton (2009, pp.1-5) are the move from analog to digital, the move from tethered to mobile, from isolated to connected, from generic to personal from consumers to creators and from closed to open
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There is an increase in free sharing “on a scale never before seen” (Wiley & Hilton, 2009, p.3)
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Rob, towards the end of this articles there are some good quotes about the need for Universities to become more open that might be useful for the white paper. I've highlighted a few sections.
Commonwealth Secretariat - 18th Conference of Commonwealth Education Minister... - 0 views
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16. Ministers stressed that ICT was vital to increasing access at all levels, hence improving the efficiency of the education system, but that technology should be driven by educational needs. They noted that while there was a plethora of initiatives for the development of Open Education Resources (OER), such as scientific publications, eBooks and journals, there was a need to set up a common platform for OER materials for harmonisation and ease of access. They further highlighted the need for a common framework for all open universities of the Commonwealth, especially those in small states. Quality assurance mechanisms should be strengthened to make them more relevant to the needs of stakeholders.
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Item 16 talks about OER
We Need to Talk About Kevin, er, Open Access | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
How really relevant and practical are Open Educational Resources?: A case for a little ... - 1 views
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Nice review with 2 interesting concepts: - distinguish between 'content' and 'process in Open Ed - distinguish between 'push' and 'pull' models Push models (e.g. MOOCs) provide open access to a structured course experience. Pull models enable academics to choose the OERs they want to use for their context. Summary: "In summary, OERs as they are currently being promoted (the current ''push' model), will be a passing fad with respect to mainstream university and college education, because the core assumptions on which initiatives such as edX are based are false. However, OERs in terms of resources freely available over the web will be a game-changer, but in a 'pull' rather than a 'push' model. The one exception to this will be in the area of continuing education for the masses, where there will be continuing demand for structured, prepackaged courses built around the edX model. In other words, we need a little more humility about the potential role of OERs. There are niche markets such as continuing education that can still be very large that can be served by initiatives such as edX and MOOCs. But the real value of OERs will be to shift instructors away from the creation and delivery of content to focusing on how best learning can be developed and facilitated for, in and by our students. This way we will avoid developing automatons and instead will be developing people who can think for themselves."
Daniel's comprehensive review of MOOC developments - 2 views
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This is the most thorough, comprehensive and balanced overview and analysis of MOOCs that I have read. This is not surprising since Sir John Daniel has had a long and distinguished career in open and distance learning, including being President of the Commonwealth of Learning and Vice-Chancellor of the UK Open University.
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The paper is worth reading in full
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The paper contains a number of real ‘zingers’. Some of my favourites:
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"Nothing suggests that they are particularly talented in teaching, especially teaching online."