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!"
its potential is hindered by archaic copyright laws and incompatible technologies. We at Creative Commons work to minimize these barriers, by providing licenses and tools that anyone can use to share their educational materials with the world. Our licenses make textbooks and lesson plans easy to find, easy to share, and easy to customize and combine
We work with the global Open Educational Resources movement, providing the legal framework for Open Educational Resources (OER)
commercial textbook publisher that incorporates CC licenses into its business model. Co-founded by the Director of Marketing for Prentice Hall Business Publishing, FWK makes higher education textbooks freely available via CC BY-NC-SA
Bloomsbury Academic publishes “world-class research-based books across the humanities and social sciences
works with its authors to use CC licenses, and has several publications available via CC BY-NC, including Lawrence Lessig’s Remix.
“flexbooks” that are free to use and adapt via CC BY-NC-SA. The CK-12 Foundation is a major contributor to the California Free Digital Textbooks Initiative, a CA initiative that aligns open textbooks to state standards.
MIT OpenCourseWare has been releasing its materials under a CC BY-NC-SA license since 2004.
Creative Commons provides the legal and technical infrastructure essential to the long-term success of OER, making it possible for educational resources to be widely accessible, adaptable, interoperable, and discoverable.
important technical component to sharing successfully as well.
embedding each of its licenses with software code that makes the license terms machine-readable—that is—discoverable by a search engine.
CC is also exploring ways to provide scalable search and discovery for educational resources on the web via its search prototype, DiscoverEd.
CC’s legal and technical tools have enabled–not to mention opening up opportunities for new business models in educational publishing (e.g., CK-12 Foundation, Flat World Knowledge, and Bloomsbury Academic, which publish textbooks and scholarly journals under CC licenses),
(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. Thisis 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.
UNESCO is taking a leading role in "making countries aware of the potential of OER."[30]
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,[16] which was the main financial supporter of open educational resources in the early years and has spent more than $110 million in the 2002 to 2010 period, of which more than $14 million went to MIT.[2] The Shuttleworth Foundation, which focuses on projects concerning collaborative content creation, has contributed as well. With the British government contributing £5.7m,[27] institutional support has also been provided by the UK funding bodies JisC[28] and HEFCE.[29]
Creative Commons, an organisation that provides ready-made licensing agreements that are less restrictive than the "all rights reserved" terms of standard international copyright, is a "critical infrastructure service for the OER movement."[26]
Flat World Knowledge publishes their books under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike license.[9] Flat World Knowledge is the first commercial publisher of open textbooks.
Software und Beispiel unter freier Lizenz
"It's hard to learn to play the piano just by watching a video of a great pianist. Interactive learning is much more effective! oppia.org helps you make embeddable interactive educational "explorations" that let people learn by doing."
"During the last 4 years and with a little help of my friends (mostly @leohavemann & @ernestopriego) I collected a large (very large) list of references on OER, Open Education, Open Educational Practices, repositories, open access and related themes which I used to write my PhD and all the papers / columns / presentations we have written, and, basically this lists has been stored in my ref management system for a while, quietly, but suddenly this week I been asked to share my list of references by few of my fellow OER researchers, so here it is… but before start, please read the notes below"
""Open Educational Resources Policy in Europe" is a project of Creative Commons that brings together a coalition of international experts associated with CC to strengthen the implementation of open education policies across Europe. "
Pauses between the slots were used for the participants to network with each other, present projects and materials, and record podcasts.
The next OERcamp will bring a new format with it. In the OER material workshop (link in German language), anyone who is interested is invited to create OER as a team under professional guidance.
We are excited about what’s to come and will be along for the ride.
Starting in FY 2018, education resources created with Department of Education discretionary competitive grants ($4.2 billion in FY 2016) must be openly licensed and shared with the public
Grantees must openly license to the public any grant deliverable that is created wholly or in part with Department competitive grant funds.
Grantees must grant to the public a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable license to access, reproduce, prepare derivative works, publicly perform, publicly display, and distribute the copyrightable work provided that attribution is given to the copyright holder
Grantees may select any open licenses that comply with the requirements of this section, including, at the grantee’s discretion, a license that limits use to noncommercial purposes.
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
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.
There is a general agreement that openness has the potential to widen access to education and to improve, amongst others, cost-efficiency and quality of teaching and learning
the European Commission announced a new initiative on “Opening-up Education” to be launched mid-2013.
visionary papers and imaginative scenarios on how Open Education in 2030 in Europe
School Education (Submission deadline: 28 April 2013)
normative or descriptive, idealistic or provocative, critical or imaginary, reflective or polemic, imaginative or concrete, comprehensive or selective, general or specific. They should be both inspiring and scientifically sound.
three dedicated foresight workshops
Seville on:
(a) 29-30 April 2013 (Lifelong Learning)
(b) 28-29 May 2013 (School Education)
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