Open educational resources

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Definition

“OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge.” (Hewlett Foundation), retrieved 18:24, 23 May 2007 (MEST).

By "open educational resources" we understand:

Open courseware and content;
Open software tools;
Open material for e-learning capacity building of faculty staff;
Repositories of learning objects;
Free educational courses.

(OECD), retrieved 18:24, 23 May 2007 (MEST)

Daniel K. Schneider's view

I always was a bit sceptical about this movement. IMHO the key issue is not so much teaching material, but:

helping teachers to acquire some sound (but easy) vocabulary of [[instructional design model]s
encouraging everybody to share, in particular rich public institutions, e.g. what I am doing with this wiki ;)
train thirld world teachers to make their own mashups (a good teacher usually should understand what he is teaching, and putting together stuff even if it's not perfect will help).

Btw, the most recent trend is Participatory Learning Infrastructure (OPLI), a step in the right direction.

Links

Indexes

OER Grapevine (good list of OER resources)