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This introspective post is provocative in a purposeful way. We are challenged to examine our perspectives and our practice and ask candid questions of ourselves. "Are we willing to "go open" (Mackness, 2015, p.1) ?

As open educational resources (OER) enter mainstream use in higher education, Lumen Learning shares a course design framework for ensuring OER courses and degree programs maintain consistent high quality. Attend this webinar to hear open education pioneer David Wiley share the 5R Quality Framework, a set of guidelines and best practices to help you capitalize on the unique rights and possibilities afforded by teaching with OER.

The 12th Annual Open Education Conference #OpenEd15: The Impact of Open November 18-20, Vancouver BC, Canada Open Educational Resources (OER) provide a massive, high quality open content infrastructure on top of which innovative people and organizations are building a new generation of educational models.

Welcome to the OER Impact Map, a record of evidence about the global impact of open educational resources (OER). This site is maintained by the OER Research Hub project. The purpose is to help people understand the impact of open educational resources (OER). You can explore the data in a number of ways.

This type of comprehensive research provides data that will be crucial to informing evidence based decisions about future directions. The visual map is effective in conveying the global impact at a glance but viewers are enticed to delve deeper into the data and its implications.

Around 3.2 billion people have access to the Internet. That's amazing, but it's fewer than half of the 7 billion or so people on earth. And while Internet access was once a luxury, it is quickly becoming essential as the world's commerce, educational resources, and entertainment move online.

This is a link to the open textbooks with a CC-BY-SA license previously offered by Flatworld Knowledge

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