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.
OER's: Why should we use them? - OPEN Education and more - 0 views
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An interesting article about how the University of Lincoln is making their OER resources more "discoverable".
OER Training Toolkit - 0 views
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Lots of useful info here
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.
Are open educational resources the key to global economic growth? | Higher Education Ne... - 0 views
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Though the concept is simple, the economic potential is tremendous and the advantages are two-fold: First, OERs can lower education costs substantially
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OERs can also help universities reduce their marketing costs
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Open resources can also help bolster a school's global reputation: 91% of visitors
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Some arguments about the economic benefits of OER for higher ed
Aggregation Without Attribution - 0 views
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An interesting case about plagiarism and how an open ed advocate tackled the problem using Twitter. Eventually the company in question stopped, but no apology was made.
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."
The corridor of uncertainty: Why aren't open educational resources being used? - 0 views
The world's largest supplier of free online learning? - 0 views
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uses mainly a mix of advertising and sponsored programs from partners and publishers to enable students to take the courses free of charge
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another example of free online courses
Learnadoodledastic: Making a case for creating Open Educational Resources for use in Hi... - 1 views
CC News: The Liberated Pixel Cup - Creative Commons - 1 views
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Using 'Creative Commons' licences to protect and leverage IP in the higher education se... - 1 views
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Creative Commons licences are intended to facilitate open access to copyright materials, both online and offline, while allowing the copyright owner to expressly reserve some rights. 'Creative Commons' describes both a movement and a network of organisations whose focus is the drafting and promotion of various licences that can be applied to copyright materials.
BBC News - Top US universities put their reputations online - 1 views
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I particularly like the last line - "Open learning is a movement that isn't going to go away,"
Open educational resources: an introduction for managers and policymakers : JISC - 0 views
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A useful summary doc? JISC are very active in OER, I know a few of the people running this through MEDEV in Newcastle if you need to get any more info.
Open courses: UK universities risk falling behind the US - video | Higher Education Net... - 0 views
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We grabbed five minutes with Steven Schwartz, VC at Macquarie University, to talk about the online course revolution and how the UK and Australia compare on social mobility