Open Educational Resources: Is the Federal Government Overstepping Its Role?
An article discussing the role of the US Federal Government in promoting OER and the author provides a counter-argument. more
Impact of Open Licensing on the Early Reader Ecosystem
/The Impact of Open Licensing on the Early Reader Ecosystem /examines how to use open licensing to promote quality learning resources for young children that are relevant and interesting. Research in early reading tends to focus on traditional publishing value and supply chains, without taking much consideration of new approaches and solutions emerging from the digitization of content and... more
Open Washington Open Educational Resources Network: About Policy Video
Everyone talks about OER Policy, but what does it mean? What do OER policies look like in practice? How do they impact OER initiatives? How does our government and our world perceive Open policy? Is policy always necessary in OER implementation? SBCTC invites you on a journey, one where you will explore different paths, each one reÄecting on these questions through interviews with experts... more
University of Edinburgh Open Educational Resources Policy
This policy outlines the University’s position on Open Educational Resources (OERs) and provides guidelines for practice in learning and teaching. more
Fiji Ministry of Education, Heritage and Arts: National Policy on Open Educational Resources
The purpose of this policy is to provide direction in the use of open educational resources (hereinafter referred to as OER) to increase access to and support quality learning and teaching in Fiji’s education and training system. In doing so, the policy seeks to strengthen commitment to OER by all concerned including the Government. more
Foundations for OER Strategy Development
The purpose of this document is to provide a concise analysis of where the global OER movement currently stands: what the common threads are, where the greatest opportunities and challenges lie, and how we can more effectively work together as a community. The first draft was born from a meeting of 26 OER leaders in February 2015. We then shared this document on global and regional OER lists... more
A Guide to Quality in Post-Traditional Online Higher Education
The quality assurance of post-traditional higher education is not straightforward, because openness and flexibility are primary characteristics of these new approaches, whereas traditional approaches to quality assurance were designed for teaching and learning within more tightly structured frameworks. This guide, structured in the form of ‘Frequently Asked Questions’, grapples with this... more
A Guide to Open Educational Resources
JISC made a new guide on open educational resources available in March 2013 more
Rubrics to Evalute Open Educational Resources
This instrument of rubrics has been implemented in the OER catalog named TEMOA (www.temoa.info [1]), with the aim of promoting the culture of sharing of educational experiences through collaborative assessment. The added value of the reviews that are made available on the OER in the catalog is increased by allowing multiple evaluations by a community of users with different perceptions and... more
Creating OER and Combining Licenses
This video is intended to help you choose compatible resources and choose a valid license for your work. Suppose you are developing an open educational resource (OER), and you want to use some other OER within yours. If you create a derivative work by adapting or combining works offered under Creative Common licenses, you must not only follow the terms of each of the licenses involved, but... more
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