Posts Tagged ‘Open Education’

Taking OER Abroad with Library-Led Partnerships

Partnerships are key to strengthening open and affordability initiatives on campus, allowing for strategic collaboration and the alignment of department goals to promote open educational resources in the classroom. This paper will focus on our Libraries’ partnership with our International Programs division to promote open course materials and the open movement at our international study […]

‘Free-Range Learners’: Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Content Online

Milwaukee — Digital natives? The idea that students are superengaged finders of online learning materials once struck Glenda Morgan, e-learning strategist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as “a load of hooey.” Students, she figured, probably stick with the textbooks and other content they’re assigned in class. Wired Campus Full Story  

Panel Ponders Future of Open-Education Resources

Washington – Open-education efforts like the free lecture materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and producing free online textbooks are relatively new, and advocates face questions about how to pay for such projects and how to maintain their quality.Wired CampusFull Article

How open schooling can educate India

With a cumulative enrollment of 2.02 million learners, Sitansu S Jena, Chairman, National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), talks to Tirna Ray on how open schooling can educate India SOURCE: The Times of IndiaFull Article