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Open Educational Resources infoKit / Home - 0 views

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    Here's the JISC OER 'InfoKit' wiki
macake

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.
macake

PeerWise - 0 views

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    OpenEd MCQ generator I heard about at a recent conference. Feedback I heard from a few VetEd users is very good in terms of student interaction.
Jenni Parker

SCORE - The Open University - 0 views

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    Support centre for open resources in education
Jenni Parker

Basic OER Training and Discussions - College Open Textbooks Community - 0 views

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    Online training
Jenni Parker

Are open educational resources the key to global economic growth? | Higher Education Ne... - 0 views

  • Though the concept is simple, the economic potential is tremendous and the advantages are two-fold: First, OERs can lower education costs substantially
  • OERs can also help universities reduce their marketing costs
  • Open resources can also help bolster a school's global reputation: 91% of visitors
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  • A recent study conducted by scholars associated with Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative demonstrated that students who use OERs can obtain the same or better learning outcomes in half the time compared with students using traditional methods.
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    Some arguments about  the economic benefits of OER for higher ed
Jenni Parker

Openness as counter-narrative (#OMDE) | opendistanceteachingandlearning - 0 views

  • 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”
  • 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
  • There is an increase in free sharing “on a scale never before seen” (Wiley & Hilton, 2009, p.3)
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  • Despite the dramatic and pervasiveness of the impact of these changes; “higher education has largely ignored these changes in its supersystem” (Wiley & Hilton, 2009, 3). While higher education had the monopoly on knowledge production in eras past, it no longer does. Not only has higher education lost its monopoly in knowledge production, but higher education has also lost its monopoly on “access to teachers, tutors, and others who could answer student questions and support them academically in their learning” (Wiley & Hilton, 2009, p.6).
  • In the light of the above, Wiley and Hilton (2009, p.8) state that higher education’s only possible response is to increase connectedness, personalization, participation, and openness.
  • “Of these four, a significant increase in openness is the most pressing priority for higher education because a culture of openness is a prerequisite to affordable, large-scale progress in the other three areas”.
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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.
Jenni Parker

Digital dawn: open online learning is just beginning - 0 views

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    The Conversation
Jenni Parker

Open Educational Resources: It's not the artifact, it's the process - 1 views

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    Mark McGuire's Blog.  slides and audio recording from a seminar that he presented at the "Open Educational Resources Seminar" at the University of Otago on 28 June 2012
Jenni Parker

OER Training Toolkit - 0 views

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    Lots of useful info here
Jenni Parker

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," 
Jenni Parker

Interview regarding sustainable and business models for Open Educational Resources (OER... - 1 views

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    audio recording - Stephen Downes
Jenni Parker

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
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