Posts Tagged ‘Open Educational Resources’

Beyond Saving Money: Engaging Multiple Stakeholders is a Key to OER Success

This article addresses how the mere development of open educational resources (OERs) and the financial savings are not enough to support OERs as means to academic success. The transition from for-pay textbooks does not end with the adaptation, adoption, or creation of open-access resources; it must also provide broad-ranging support provided for multiple campus stakeholders. […]

Lumen Learning

Co-founded by open education visionary Dr. David Wiley and education technology strategist Kim Thanos, Lumen is dedicated to facilitating broad, successful adoption of OER. After years of pioneering work in open education as individuals, David and Kim collaborated on the Next Generation Learning Challenges grant-funded Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative in 2012 to replace textbooks with OER […]

Critics Say Sting on Open-Access Journals Misses Larger Point

Perhaps months from now, when the dust settles and academics really look back at it, they’ll find some hard lessons in the elaborate Science magazine exposé this week by the journalist John Bohannon. Wired Campus Full Article

Harvard and MIT Put $60-Million Into New Platform for Free Online Courses

The group of elite universities offering free online courses just got bigger. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced a partnership that will host online courses from both institutions free of charge. The platform, its creators say, has the potential to improve face-to-face classes on the home campuses while giving students around […]

Bringing Open Education to the Mainstream

Large-scale open education initiatives, like M.I.T.’s OpenCourseWare or Rice University’s Connexions, have the potential to change the landscape of higher education by creating a learning community that spreads beyond the walls of the university, providing students and faculty with free, high-quality resources and materials from diverse sources. Yet with all that promise, wide-scale adoption of […]

US Department of Education Open Government Plan

In April of 2010, our Open Government Task Force assembled the Department’s first comprehensive Open Government Plan. Two years later, we’ve met many of our objectives and started new initiatives since the first 2010 release. This is our April 2012 update to our Open Government Plan.US Department of Education Press Release

Building Schools Out of Clicks, Not Bricks

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND — This past year has been a time of signs and wonders for the open educational resources movement, which pushes for free public access to educational materials. The New York Times Full Article

Disruptive innovation — in education

For Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a means of democratizing education. It’s a way to reinvent it.MITFull Article

Conceptual Framework for Parametrically Measuring the Desirability of Open Educational Resources using D-Index

Abstract Open educational resources (OER) are a global phenomenon that is fast gaining credibility in many academic circles as a possible solution for bridging the knowledge divide. With increased funding and advocacy from governmental and nongovernmental organisations paired with generous philanthropy, many OER repositories, which host a vast array of resources, have mushroomed over the […]

EU and World Bank step up pressure to make research available for free

Three significant blows were struck this week for the international cause of achieving open access to scientific research. Neelie Kroes (pictured), vice-president of the European Commission, who is responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe, has confirmed that the commission is drawing up a proposal to open up access to the results of research funded […]