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Thank you for sharing the resource on library statistics. The site attracted my attention first of all because it is a Scandinavian resource. The material contains lots of useful theoretical and practical material. In the introduction the author states "It contains a number of research papers, but the framework is different. This is collection of texts, tables, graphics and links that are aimed at the people who actually run libraries." Statistics is a useful tool if used correctly and wisely. It may inspire changes and innovations and also measure the importance of changes. Besides, collection and interpretation of statistical data also changes with the course of time. The author has very clearly explained library statistics with good examples. .

Blogs are used as educational resources and we can have our blog nowadays for free.

Very useful, thank you. I made two free websites not long ago and then two days later, the company sent me messages that to keep them I had to pay for the service. Then it is not free, is It?

Sometimes 'free' meens that you should pay money latter of for best services.

Now you can't imagine a teacher doing this

If you were interested in the Cancer Commons resource from the last module, this one might be something you'd like to peruse. The OERC's portal is open and free for everyone around the world to use to: Find free, open, and online educational and training resources. We will be "recommending the best" and "linking to the rest" of materials that could meet your interdisciplinary needs.

Open educational resources (OER) have been defined by the Hewlett Foundation as teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

A significant movement in education concerns the use of open educational resources. By ―open‖ it is generally meant that the resource is available at no cost to others for adaptation and reuse in different contexts. However ―open‖ is not a simple dichotomy; rather, there is a continuum of openness. We discuss four separate aspects of reuse and demonstrate how these describe different levels of openness. We discuss how the licensing and technical aspects of open educational resources affect the relative openness of an OER.

Although this was published in 2007, the creation of OER is put in an historical context. It's interesting to see the rapid and continual growth of the movement in seven years.

Se podría decir que la fotografía y el diseño van de la mano ya que ambos ayudan a comunicar algo complejo de tal manera que se vuelve sencillo para el espectador con tan solo verlo.

Un informe señala que profesores y estudiantes carecen de competencias para realizar un aprendizaje auto-dirigido. Además, apunta que los estudiantes continúan teniendo serios problemas para encontrar contenidos pertinentes. Interesante visión de una experta alemana.

It is well known that the rules that allow for certain educational uses of copyrighted works under certain conditions without permission of the rights' owners vary greatly between countries. But how different are those rules? And how difficult is to access those differences? Can a teacher with no legal background determine alone whether a certain...

Los recursos educativos de libre acceso son materiales de enseñanza, aprendizaje o investigación que se encuentran en el dominio público o que han sido publicados con una licencia de propiedad intelectual que permite su utilización, adaptación y distribución gratuitas.

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A source of some open text books with a interesting back story that should act as a warning about open--they are all now ex-open text books. After 2012 the publisher decided to abandon the CC/open textbook model and shifted the licensing on all their books. However, you can not revoke a CC license retroactively, so copies of the books downloaded prior to the change are still CC. But if the publisher no longer provides access to them, they disappear from CC circulation and access--luckily in this case, some one saved the CC versions and makes them available on this website. thanks!

Seriously useful! Indeed!

Wow, this collection is extensive, and the content seems good too! I'm so glad that someone was motivated enough to make these available according to their original licenses -- but it feels a bit bittersweet as well they had to resort to guerilla tactics to keep them available. It does make me wonder -- why did the publishing company decide to start charging for their textbooks? Was the previous model unprofitable?

El Repositorio de la Educación es un servicio en línea para recoger, preservar y proporcionar acceso a los datos de las publicaciones de investigación y los contenidos digitales en todo el mundo se producen. Mejore sus estudios, añadir dinamismo a sus clases y llevar a cabo sus investigaciones con una gran variedad de los objetos digitales mejor producidos. Por el momento, hay 19.662 objetos disponibles y 149 se están evaluando o están en espera de la autorización de su autor para ser publicada. El número total actual de acceso es 4.357.339.