Group items tagged

The EdITLib Digital Library is your source for peer-reviewed and published articles and papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

In this article, George Siemens suggests that the developments of technology and social learning theory are creating a sequence of change pressures that will alter traditional education. In particular, he tries to depict education in the future..

nice article about applying some software paradigms to the development of open educational resources

NARCIS has been developed by the KNAW to increase visibility and retrievability of Dutch scientific research. NARCIS gives access to scientific information consisting of full-text publications from all the Dutch universities, KNAW, NWO, and a number of research institutes, the datasets of the institute DANS, as well as descriptions of research projects, institutes and researchers. Research news from, among others, Intermediair Nieuws, Science Guide and several universities is presented on the homepage of NARCIS with access to the full articles. The news content is refreshed every hour. NARCIS can notify you automatically by an RSS feed on new full-text publications, datasets and the newest research in your area of interest.

the 2008 JIME issue about Open Educational Resources.

The Public Knowledge Project is a research and development initiative directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online publishing and knowledge-sharing environments.

Andy Lane (Open University) on the sustainability of Open Educational Resources

My paper at Ed-Media 2008. Abstract; In 2007, Delft University of Technology started Delft OCW (Open Courseware), a project with the objective of publishing educational resources online. This paper focuses on the future of this project, and describes the results of the research on its sustainability. The advice includes (i) the development of a more decentralized environment for Open Educational Resources (OER), (ii) the involvement of other OER projects, educational institutes, private organizations, and end-users, (iii) the management and support of this environment through tools and protocols, and (iv) deploying various business and revenue models to address the full potential of the project.