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eLearning Papers: Open Educational Resources

October 2nd, 2008 Posted by: l.dewis

eLearning Papers, a journal promoting the use of ICT for lifelong learning in Europe, is focussing on OERs in it’s latest issue. Here’s the sell:

“Five selected papers by the guest editors investigate the organisational, social, cultural, pedagogical and technical aspects of implementing OER.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning and teaching materials that are offered freely to anyone under licenses that allow to use, modify and distribute the items. But that’s not all. Through the world-wide movement of OER, magnified with user-generated content and underlying Web 2.0 technologies, the advantages and opportunities are numerous for teachers, authors, eLearning practitioners, developers and content providers, researchers and decision-makers, and last but not least: learners.”

Check out the following papers:

Open Educational Resources for Management Education: Lessons from experience, Cécile Rébillard, Jean-Philippe Rennard, Marc Humbert, Grenoble Ecole de Management

Reflections on sustaining Open Educational Resources: an institutional case study, Andy Lane The Open University

OER Models that Build a Culture of Collaboration: A Case Exemplified by Curriki, Barbara (Bobbi) Kurshan, Executive Director, Curriki

Simplicity and design as key success factors of the OER repository LeMill, Tarmo Toikkanen, University of Art and Design Helsinki

Applying Software Development Paradigms to Open Educational Resources, Seth Gurell, Center for Open and Sustainable Learning

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