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Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Wednesday | OE Global 2016 - 0 views

  • Announcements and Keynote Panel: Opening Up Europe Anka Mulder, Jan Gondol, Lisa Marie Blaschke & Susan Webster (moderator)
  • Dimensions of Open Research: Reflections on ‘critical openness’ in the ROER4D project
  • Open Education and the Hidden Tariff
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  • “This was for the first time that I used the net independently”: Fostering digital literacies through MOOC delivery structures in a developing context
  • OEC Members Build Openly Licensed MOOCs to Enhance Re-use, Interactivity, and Data About Learning
  • National/EU Policies and institutional strategies to foster use of open education for adult education in Europe
  • The essence of pedagogical design in OER – teachers’ framing in an Open Educational Practice
  • Creative Commons 2016-2020 Strategy & 2015 State of the Commons
  • the OpenEdu framework on the10 dimensions of Open Education
  • Using Open Education Resources in Afghanistan: The Experience So Far
  • What Makes High School Students Engage in Open Courses – A Pilot Study
  • The ‘MIND’ – a Journey along the Frontiers of Science & an Entry into the World of Open
  • Is open education inclusive?
  • Open Ed Maturing at MIT: OpenCourseWare and 15 and MITx at 3. The More It Stays the Same, The More It Changes
  • Framework for an Ethics of Open Education
  • Openness, Open Education and Open Licenses
  • The current state of accessibility of MOOCs: What are the next steps?
  • Advancing Open Education through Open Government
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

U.S. Department of Education Announces First-Ever Adviser to Expand Access to Open Digi... - 0 views

  • September 16, 2015
  • The U.S. Department of Education announced today the hiring of the first ever open education adviser to lead a national effort to expand schools’ access to high-quality, openly-licensed learning resources
  • Marcinek will serve in the Office of Educational Technology (OET) and focus on helping both K-12 and higher education connect with teaching, learning and research resources in the public domain that are freely available to anyone over the web
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  • Open educational resources are an important element of an infrastructure for learning and ranges from podcasts to digital libraries to textbooks and games
  • penly licensed learning resources
  • frees up funding to support the transition to digital learning
  • a visit to Williamsfield Community School District in Illinois, where U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stopped as part of his annual back-to-school bus tour
  • produced with public funds or foundation grants
  • there likely will be other rules – such as curricular standards – that limit who can update or change the content of the resource for use in the classroom or by others.
  • let the applicable rules defining appropriate uses of educational resources to come from educators and not publishers
  • Are the materials that the Williamsfield School District is using fully open? No. Most of the materials in the EngageNY collection for example use one of the most restrictive Creative Commons license.
  • Cable Green, September 15th, 2015
  • the progress the rural school district has made in shifting to digital and open educational resources (OER) to connect their students to the world. “The walls break down,” Zack Binder, the Pre K-12 Principal said. “You’re no longer in Williamsfield, Illinois. You have the same access to this information that anyone in the world does.”
  • er the past two years, the 310-student district decided to adapt and adopt OER
  • Secretary Duncan announced today the hiring of the Department’s first full-time OER position to lead a national effort to expand schools’ access to high-quality, openly-licensed learning resources and help districts and states follow the path of Williamsfield. 
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

David Wiley steps down and adjourns the Open Education Conference - 0 views

  • The conference, which grew from 40 attendees in 2003 to 850 this year, was a meeting place for advocates of open education
  • it’s a call to reset and start over
  • a fracturing of the tenuously aligned coalition of open education advocates
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  • differences in the goals and preferred tactics of open education advocates could no longer be bridged
  • Many people in the coalition had different goals, Feldstein wrote
  • Publishing companies have recently tried to enter the open education space, taking open educational resources and selling them with added supplemental material or charging for them through a closed platform
  • Are you primarily focused on reducing costs for students? Improving student success? Increasing pedagogical flexibility for faculty? Bringing retribution to publishers?
  • It’s a more mature, more critical, more nuanced discussion
  • which kinds of licenses should count as “open,”
  • “Open education is growing up,”
  • same belief of making educational materials available to everyone
  • had questioned Wiley’s prominent role because of his race, religion or association with a for-profit company
  • We could take advantage of more hybrid and online sessions
  • This year's Open Education Conference had more attendees than ever before. Why is it ending after 16 years, and what does its demise mean for the cause? By Lilah Burke November 6, 2019 .top-social {clear: both; width: 56px !important; background: #fafafa; position: absolute; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 5px 5px 10px !important; left: -70px; top: 60px; border-radius: 10px 0 0 10px; border-right: 4px solid #f1f1f1 !important;} @media only screen and (max-width: 979px) { .top-social{ clear: both; width: 100% !important; background: #fafafa; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0; top: 0; border-radius: 0; border-bottom: 4px solid #f1f1f1 !important; border-right: 0 !important; display: block; margin: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: center; padding: 5px 0 0 0 !important; float:none !important; } body.node-type-special-reports .top-social { display:none; } }
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

OER in Australia - WikiResearcher - 0 views

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    (last updated 2010) Although the Open Educational Resources (OERs) movement has been developed almost a decade ago, Australian higher education sector seems to be still resisting this movement. This project intends to develop a "Feasibility Protocol" to enable and facilitate the adoption, use and management of OERs for learning and teaching within higher education (HE) institutions in Australia. This project will also explore how OERs will enhance teaching and learning, enable and widen participation for key social inclusion targets in higher education, promote lifelong learning and bridge the gap between non-formal, informal and formal learning in Australia. This is very important for the development of Australia education national and internationally because it will support educational institutions that are currently limited by the lack of guidance regarding OERs, speed up the process of appropriate adoption of OERs, and provide additional venues for universities to pursue innovative strategies to better support current students, attract new ones and be internationally recognised and competitive.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Ria Jacobi und Nicolai van der Woert, Special Interest Group Open Educational... - 1 views

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    Jochen Robes: "Ein lesenswerter Report, der aus der Fülle von Berichten über Open Educational Resources (OER) heraussticht. Herausgeber ist eine niederländische Special Interest Group, die sich mit Blick auf den Hochschulbereich dem Thema OER widmet. Der Report versammelt 12 Artikel und kurze Spotlights, die aus verschiedenen Perspektiven (educational, content-related, technological, organisational) den aktuellen Stand der OER-Bewegung zusammenfassen. Dabei sparen die Autoren nicht mit kritischen Anmerkungen, was den Stand der konkreten Anwendung von OER-Materialien betrifft - sowohl in den Niederlanden, aber auch darüber hinaus. Wie in vielen Berichten der jüngeren Vergangenheit wird auch hier betont, dass "there is currently a transition from an emphasis on Open Educational Resources (OER) to one on Open Educational Practices (OEP). Whereas OER focus on how resources can be made available and stored for the long term, OEP have to do with how OER can be utilised in an education system in such a way as to bring about an improved learning experience." (S. 18) Ein weiterer, interessanter Artikel beleuchtet OER aus der Perspektive "content curation" und verbindet OER und Scoop.it! ("Content curation: a new way of monitoring "The Truth"?") Und an vielen Stellen wird eine Verbindung zwischen OER/ OEP und Massive Open Online Courses hergestellt!"
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Coalition Letter to President Obama Calling for OER Policy Commitment | SPARC - 0 views

  • August 4, 2015 President Barack Obama
  • organizations from the education, library, technology, public interest and legal communities
  • Office of Science and Technology Policy's call for ideas to strengthen the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan
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  • To ensure that the value of educational materials created with federal funds is maximized, we call upon the President to issue a strong Administration policy to ensure that they are made available to the public as Open Educational Resources to freely use, share, and build upon.
  • The Federal Government currently invests billions of taxpayer dollars each year in programs that include the creation of educational, training, and instructional materials through grants, contracts, and other cooperative agreements
  • While these materials are created for the public good, they are generally not open to the members of the public who paid for them
  • generalizing these program-specific policies
  • significant educational benefits
  • Governments in other countries are already taking meaningful steps to harness the power of Open Educational Resources
  • Poland
  • Canada
  • a strong Administration policy that will ensure that these valuable informational and educational assets created with Federal funds are unlocked and made available to the educators, students, investors, and innovators eager to put them to productive use.
  • A broad definition of educational materials
  • designed to educate, instruct, train or inform
  • concerning, for example, public health, the environment, or energy that could be adapted for educational use
  • Free access through the internet.
  • enable reuse.
  • Agencies should be required to implement this policy in no more than 12 months.
  • Agencies should report their progress and results to the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

A Federation of Responsibility: Quality for Open Educational Resources and Open Educati... - 2 views

  • my colleagues Anthony Camilleri, Prof. Dr. Jan Pawlowski and myself on behalf of European Foundation for Quality in E-learning (EFQUEL)
  • “Opening up Education: Innovative teaching and learning for all through new technologies and Open Educational Resources”
  • we show  that quality assurance of OER and Open Educational Practices (OEP) requires a complex mix of quality tools
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  • democratisation of the processes of quality review
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    "In a new EU Commission report, issued by the EU research center on prospective technological studies, my colleagues Anthony Camilleri, Prof. Dr. Jan Pawlowski and myself on behalf of European Foundation for Quality in E-learning (EFQUEL) have authored a comprehensive analysis of quality issues around open educational resources and open educational practices."
School and University

Education Administration - 0 views

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    Education administration involves the administration and organization of an educational institution to ensure it's smooth running.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration - 0 views

  • Gemeinsam das Potenzial von "Open Educational Resources (OER)" realisiere
  • "Open Education" Bewegung verbindet die alte Tradition Wissen und Ideen gemeinsam zu entwickeln und auszutauschen mit den neuen Möglichkeiten der Vernetzung und Interaktivität, die das Internet bietet. Sie basiert auf dem Grundprinzip, dass jeder die Freiheit haben sollte, Bildungsmaterialien zu nutzen, zu verändern, verbessern und weiterzugeben – ohne Einschränkungen.
  • Sammlung von "Open Educational Resources" bildet die Grundlage für diese Entwicklung.
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  • "Open Education" wird die bestehende Bildungslandschaft absehbar grundlegend verändern.
  • Vision einer neuenBildungsgesellschaft zu teilen und die folgenden drei Strategien zu unterstützen und zu verbreiten, um das Potenzial frei zugänglicher Bildungsmaterialien voll auszuschöpfen:
  • aktive Teilnehmer
  • Erstellung und Nutzung von frei zugänglichenBildungsmaterialien sollte als integraler Teil von Bildung anerkannt werden.
  • Autoren und Verleger
  • Ressourcen frei zugänglich zu machen
  • Lizenzbedingungen sollten die Nutzung, Veränderung, Übersetzung, Verbesserung, und Weitergabe des Materials ermöglichen
  • technischen Formaten
  • Bedürfnisse von Menschen mit Behinderung berücksichtigt
  • Nutzer ohne Internet einbezogen werden
  • Idealerweise
  • Regierungen, Verwaltungen, Schulen und Universitäten sollen frei zugängliche Bildungsmaterialien zu einem Thema mit Priorität
  • Bildungsmaterialien, die mit Hilfe von Steuergeldern erstellt werden, sollten offen zugänglich sein.
  • Open Educational Resources" Vorzug
  • uswahl anerkannter Lehrmaterialien
  • Kosten von Lehrbüchern zu senken und Gelder für  Verbesserungen des Bildungssystems freizumachen.
  • OER bilden die Basis für eine partizipative Lernkultur, welche auf die Bedürfnisse der modernen Wissensgesellschaft zugeschnitten sind
  • Diese Entwicklung geht einher mit der Einführung neuer pädagogischer Ansätze, bei denen sich Lehrende und Lernende in einem gleichberechtigten Prozess gemeinsam Wissen erschließen.
  • Wir stehen am Beginn einer globalen Revolution, welche die Art und Weise auf die wir lehren und lernen grundlegend verändern wird
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    Kapstadt Open Education Declaration Gemeinsam das Potenzial von "Open Educational Resources (OER)" realisieren
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

The OPAL Initiative | OPAL - 0 views

  • OPAL has been established through international organisations including UNESCO, ICDE and EFQUEL in order to establish a forum which works to build greater trust in using and promoting open educational resources. The project is part funded by the European Commission Education and Training Lifelong Learning Programme.
  • OPAL Initiative is a partnership between seven organizations including ICDE, UNESCO, European Foundation for Quality, the Open University UK, Aalto University and the Catholic University Portugal. It is led by the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and partly funded by the European Commission.
  • The OPAL Initiative moves beyond the issue of access to open educational resources (OER), and focuses on innovation and quality through open educational practices (OEP). Existing approaches for fostering the use of OER have made achievements by focusing on building access to resources (MERLOT, MIT OpenCourseWare, Stanford iTunes,OpenLearn, Rice University, the UNESCO Open Training Platform, the UNESCO OER wiki) and licence models (Creative Commons). However, concerns over quality, the absence of trust on the part of learners and educators, and a lacking sense of ownership of the materials hinder wider acceptance of OER. OPAL seeks to build trust by establishing an environment for quality and Innovation through OEP.
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  • The “Open Educational Quality Initiative” is an international network to promote innovation and improved quality in education and training through the use of open educational resources.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Ministry of Education publishes OER ordinance | Iniciativa EA - 0 views

  • that determines that any educational resources paid for by the Ministry, which is to be used for basic education (K-12) should be open educational resources, giving permissions for anyone to “access, use, adapt and distribute at no cost”. It further emphasises the importance of open formats and standards whenever technically viable
  • open licenses for all educational resources produced through the Open University of Brazil program
  • open license for all educational material in a nationwide robotics for education purchase and the use of an open license (for some resources) in the nationwide textbook purchase program
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  • Open Education Initiative (OEI) in partnership with dedicated public servants
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

European Commission - EUROPA - European Commission - Directorate-General for Education ... - 1 views

  • objective of the consultation is to explore the perceived need - mainly but not exclusively among education and training stakeholders – for EU action to promote the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and of ICT in education
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    "Consultation on "Opening up Education - a proposal for a European Initiative to enhance education and skills development through new technologies"
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Open Education in den USA: Viele Akteure für ein Ziel | Werkstatt - 0 views

  • Handlungsempfehlung für Deutschland
  • substantieller Kostenfaktor
  • erwartete Einsparungen
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  • offene Lernunterlagen
  • Seit Jahren fördern finanzstarke private Stiftungen den Aufbau von Open-Edcuation-Projekten. So finanziert die Flora and William Hewlett Foundation
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Saylor Foundation
  • nicht nur die Unterlagen frei online zugänglich, sondern ganze Online-Kurse samt Zertifikat im Falle erfolgreicher Absolvierung
  • California Open Education Resources Council
  • in offener Ausschreibung und nach Expertenbegutachtung
  • Bundesstaat Washington wiederum gibt es eine „Open Course Library“
  • US-Bildungsministerium einen Videowettbewerb zum Thema „Why Open Education Matters?“.
  • NGOs wie Creative Commons, die im Bildungsbereich die besonders offenen Versionen ihrer Lizenzen empfehlen und Unternehmen, wie Flatworld Knowledge
  • Die PDF-Version eines Lehrbuchs ist als kostenloser Download verfügbar, verdient wird mit Dienstleistungen bei der Aufbereitung der Lernunterlagen und mit dem Verkauf von Printausgaben.
  • ein zentrales Open-Education-Portal fehlt auch in den USA noch
  • dass die unterschiedlichen Initiativen bisweilen inkompatible Lizenzen für ihre Inhalte wählen
  • weil das MIT die kommerzielle Verwendung ihrer Inhalte untersagt,
  • Trend hin zu offeneren Lizenzen
  • Open-Education-Steinzeit
  • dass hierzulande große Stiftungen fehlen, die Anschubfinanzierung leisten und so die öffentliche Hand antreiben
  • dass das deutsche Bildungsministerium gemeinsam mit der Kultusministerkonferenz für Anfang November zu einer Expertenanhörung zum Thema OER geladen und bereits vorab einen detaillierten Fragenkatalog verschickt hat
  • wiederkehrende Ausschreibungen auf Landesebene
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    " Anders als in Polen ist die Entwicklung von Open Educational Resources in den USA dezentral durch unterschiedliche Akteure und Initiativen gesteuert. Leonhard Dobusch, Juniorprofessor am Institut für Management der Freien Universität Berlin und Blogger, fasst die Lage in den USA zusammen und gibt seine Handlungsempfehlung für Deutschland."
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Amazon Education to Launch New Website for Open Education Resources - Market Brief - 0 views

  • Feb. 14, 2016
  • Amazon Education is working on a new platform that will allow schools to upload, manage, share, and discover open education resources from a home page that in some ways resembles the one shoppers are accustomed to accessing on the massive online retailer’s website.
  • to be called Amazon Inspire
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  • during a “Transitioning to OER” session Friday as part of the National Conference on Education of the AASA, the School Superintendents Association
  • The new platform is in beta testing now, and is scheduled to be released publicly within the next two to three months
  • Users of the site will be able to add ratings and reviews, and to receive recommendations based on their previous selections
  • Educators will be able to curate open resources, self-publish material they have developed, and put a school’s entire digital library that is open and freely available online
  • select categories to modify their searches for open resources, much the way shoppers on Amazon today can choose categories to filter their searches
  • a completely free, open platform for free resources.
  • This piece we have committed to making absolutely free forever. We’re not going to lock the content up. We promised we won’t put a pay wall in front of it.
  • how it will achieve financial sustainability for Amazon Inspire, he said it could be in connecting users to books they might want to buy
  • or in using Amazon’s capabilities in self-publishing books
  • a lesson one of his educators uploaded in testing requires certain materials like batteries and coils
  • will be assigned metadata tags identified through the Learning Registry, a federally sponsored, online information-sharing network
  • “All of these groups–Amazon, Microsoft, Edmodo–they’re publishing their platforms on top of the Learning Registry,”
Juergen Plieninger

» OER15 - 0 views

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    "The main conference focus will be 'Mainstreaming Open Education' along with six sub themes : 1. Impact Research, 2. Open Education across Languages and Cultures, 3. Learners and Other Communities, 4. Open Educational Practice (OEP) and Policy und 5. Open Courses Open Education in Colleges and Schools "
Juergen Plieninger

Open Education - SPARC - 0 views

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    Open Education encompasses resources, tools and practices that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers and can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment. Open Education maximizes the power of the Internet to make education more affordable, accessible and effective.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Free online textbooks really work | Bill Gates - 0 views

  • By Bill Gates | August 01, 2022
  • Free online textbooks really work
  • the disproportionate impact on low-income students
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  • COVID’s impact on teachers
  • veteran teachers leave
  • there has never been a more important time to support teachers
  • this year marks the tenth anniversary of a project I fund personally, separately from the foundation
  • the OER Project
  • free online courses and professional development for educators
  • Although OER courses won’t solve every problem that the pandemic has caused for schools, they’re an important part of making sure teachers get the support they deserve—and students get the high-quality curriculum they need—in such difficult times.
  • there’s nothing new about the concept of OER
  • Every teacher who has ever downloaded a worksheet from Pinterest has used an open educational resource
  • complete courses, including the equivalent of online textbooks for students, coupled with instructional support and professional development for teachers
  • first two courses, Big History and World History, have reached more than 1 million students and 20,000 teachers around the world
  • Given the success we’ve seen, I’m quite optimistic about the broad impact that OER materials can have in education
  • We would love for many others to get involved and keep raising the quality of the digital tools that teachers can use. A great goal for the entire field would be to create courses and professional development for every subject and every grade. The potential here is enormous.
  • For one thing, regardless of what course or grade you’re talking about, the content needs to be developed by experts in the field and in classroom education
  • The OER Project was able to offer on-demand professional development, virtual training sessions, and an online community where teachers can share ideas and resources
  • It can be updated more frequently than print publications can
  • Courses should be created by educators and subject-matter experts, supplemented with professional development, and regularly improved with feedback from the teachers who use them
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    Very good point, we should move away from the standard of printed educational books, after all in the modern world data is constantly updated so books should be revised with time.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

29C3: OMG! OER! - 0 views

  • How big business fights open education in Poland, and how open education fights back!
  • A well-funded black PR campaign is rages in Polish media in an attempt to convince parents and teachers (and through them, the government) to oppose e-textbooks.
  • how we (the Coalition for Open Education) try to fend off the well-funded and ruthless publishers' campaign
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    Ankündigung zum Vortrag "OMG! OER! How big business fights open education in Poland, and how open education fights back!" by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak 
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Fachforum Open Content und Rechtsfragen 8.11.2012 - Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Un... - 0 views

  • Was steckt hinter dem Begriff und Konzept der Open Educational Resources, kurz OER genannt?
  • Rechtslage zur Bereitstellung eigener und der Nutzung und Wiederverwendung fremder (Lern)ressourcen
  • Open Practices
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  • Urheberrecht
  • rechtlichen) Tücken
  • OpenLearnWare
  • Arbeitsgruppen
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    Fachforum 8.11.12, Universität Frankfurt Open Content und Rechtsfragen Open Educational Resources und Open Content Strategien: Konzepte, Rechtslage und aktuelle Entwicklungen Was steckt hinter dem Begriff und Konzept der Open Educational Resources, kurz OER genannt? Wie viele Hochschulen haben eigentlich eine (Open) Content Strategie und brauchen sie das überhaupt? Entwicklungen an Hochschulen, wo sich in Abhängigkeit von Medienformate oder Inhaltskategorien neben den Lernmanagementplattformen oftmals mehrere Portale und Verbreitungskanäle aufbauen, (z.B. Vorlesungsaufzeichnungen, digitale Lerninhalte und Dissertationen) machen deutlich, dass es an der Zeit ist, sich der Herausforderung der Entwicklung einer Content Strategie zu stellen. Dabei stellt auch sich die Frage, welche Inhalte nur intern und welche einer größeren Öffentlichkeit bereitgestellt werden. Zugleich stehen Hochschulen, Schulen und andere Einrichtung auch vor der Herausforderung, frei verfügbare Lernressourcen zu nutzen. Zugleich besteht bei Lehrenden und Entscheidungsträgern dieser Einrichtungen oftmals viel Unsicherheit bezüglich der Rechtslage zur Bereitstellung eigener und der Nutzung und Wiederverwendung fremder (Lern)ressourcen. Diesen Fragen möchte sich das Fachforum stellen. Es zielt darauf ab, eine Klärung des Begriffs und Konzepts der Open Educational Resources vorzunehmen, Beispiele für Open Content Strategien an Hochschulen zu diskutieren und mehr Transparenz zur aktuellen Rechtslage herzustellen. Dabei soll auch das Konzept der Creative Commons als Lösungsansatz zum Contenttausch und die Rolle der Hochschulen als Open Content Lieferant betrachtet werden. Neben den Vorträgen finden die Teilnehmenden in parallelen Arbeitsgruppen viel Raum zum direkten Austausch miteinander und zur Vertiefung einzelner Themen.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

A New Video Competition Invites You to Tell the World Why Open Education Matters - Educ... - 0 views

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    A decade after MIT's OpenCourseWare project kicked off the Open Educational Resources movement, it's transformed people's ability to share knowledge across the globe. Last fall, Stanford professors Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun offered their most popular class to the world for free, and Thrun went on to launch an entire open education platform. MIT launched MITx, which allows anyone to take MIT classes online and earn certificates of completion, and several universities are developing OER libraries stocked with free or low-cost digital course materials.
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