The Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission has organised a consultation on "Opening up Education - a proposal for a European Initiative to enhance education and skills development through new technologies". From 13 Augu… more »
Tag: "oer"
JISC has presented 15 reusable technology solutions for OER. This was part of the OER Rapid Innovation Strand. In the original call they specifically addressed these points:
how to create rich machine-readable resources that contribute to the global… more »
The Babson Survey Research Group released a report on OER usage in US higher education, “Growing the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education”. The report is based on three different surveys among faculty and academic leaders, and i… more »
Hester Jelgerhuis van SURF heeft een zeer uitgebreide blog geschreven over de verschillende doelgroepen van Open Educational Resources:
Over de gebruikers van open educational resources (OER) is nog niet zoveel bekend: wie zijn nu eigenlijk de consumen… more »
Vandaag verscheen het onderzoeksrapport van SURF en Wikiwijs over het OER-landschap in Nederland:
Utrecht, 9 oktober 2012 - Wereldwijd stellen hogescholen en universiteiten steeds vaker onderwijsmateriaal open beschikbaar. Het gebruik van platforms al… more »
Ben Janssen, Robert Schuwer and Fred Mulder have written an interesting article about business model scenarios for open universities. This article discusses the challenges an Open University faces when offering its learning materials as Open Educational Resources (OER). more »
Today I was invited to speak at the fourth day of the 2012 Ticer International Summerschool. Ticer stands for Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources. Ticer is a business unit of Tilburg University's Library and IT Services.
The theme of the… more »
Last month there was a special edition of the Journal Distance Education about OER. After a lot of online comments they opened the issue, so everyone can read the articles. The articles in the journal are:
Fostering social inclusion through open educ… more »
Last month I wrote about the video's of the Why Open Education Matters Contest and that you can vote for it.
The jury winners are announced today. I have embedded the winning video below. I think it is a really good video to use as an introduction to O… more »
Ik merk dat een heel aantal termen door elkaar worden gebruikt, zoals OER, OpenCourseWare, Open Education, Online Education. In deze blog probeer ik hier wat duidelijkheid in te scheppen en ook de verschillen aan te geven.
Open Educational Resources (O… more »