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Realising the Vision of Open Educational Resources

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Abstract

Despite the vision behind the open educational resource (OER) movement and the considerable investments in OER work, uptake, use and reuse by teachers and learners have been disappointing. This chapter explores ways in which we might address this issue, drawing on current work under two initiatives, OLnet and OPAL.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://olnet.org/

  2. 2.

    http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

  3. 3.

    http://oli.Web.cmu.edu/openlearning/

  4. 4.

    http://cohere.open.ac.uk/

  5. 5.

    http://www.eurodl.org/

  6. 6.

    http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

  7. 7.

    http://cloudworks.ac.uk

  8. 8.

    http://compendiumld.open.ac.uk

  9. 9.

    http://ci.olnet.org

  10. 10.

    http://cohere.open.ac.uk

  11. 11.

    http://www.oer-quality.org

  12. 12.

    http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2087

  13. 13.

    http://www.ndlr.ie/

  14. 14.

    http://www.bccampus.ca/

  15. 15.

    http://www.wikiwijs.nl/sector/

  16. 16.

    http://www8.open.ac.uk/score/?samsredir=1300866542

  17. 17.

    http://www.koolielu.ee/

  18. 18.

    http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/detail/oer/OER_REL_Northampton

  19. 19.

    http://www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/techlearn/strategy/

  20. 20.

    http://www.hewlett.org/

  21. 21.

    http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/teachingandlearning/oer

  22. 22.

    http://www.wikiwijs.nl/sector/

  23. 23.

    http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

  24. 24.

    http://www.campuscontent.de/mcportal/Web/cc

  25. 25.

    http://www.ndlr.ie/

  26. 26.

    http://wikieducator.org/Exemplary_Collection_of_institutions_with_OER_policy

  27. 27.

    http://www.oerderves.org/2007/03/a-review-of-the-open-educational-resources-oer-movement/

  28. 28.

    http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/53/38149140.pdf

  29. 29.

    http://www.esep.co.uk/03-info-lisbon-agenda.html

  30. 30.

    http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/

  31. 31.

    http://standards.ieee.org/

  32. 32.

    http://as.exeter.ac.uk/support/educationenhancementprojects/openexeter/

  33. 33.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharable_Content_Object_Reference_Model

  34. 34.

    http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

  35. 35.

    http://www.gitta.info/Website/en/html/index.html

  36. 36.

    http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3633

  37. 37.

    http://www.eoppimiskeskus.fi/en/avo

  38. 38.

    http://www.ou.nl/eCache/DEF/2/19/943.html

  39. 39.

    http://www.educanext.org

  40. 40.

    http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/KELDAmed/index_e.html

  41. 41.

    http://www.campuscontent.de

  42. 42.

    http://www.podcampus.de/

  43. 43.

    http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org

  44. 44.

    http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3615

  45. 45.

    http://www.gitta.info/Website/en/html/index.html

  46. 46.

    http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/projects/oer

  47. 47.

    http://sometu.wikispaces.com/AVO+project

  48. 48.

    http://lemill.net/

  49. 49.

    http://www.bccampus.ca/

  50. 50.

    http://elib.at/index.php/Hauptseite

  51. 51.

    http://www.unisul.br/unisulvirtual/home.html

  52. 52.

    http://cnx.org/

  53. 53.

    http://educommons.com/

  54. 54.

    http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer/openexeter.aspx

  55. 55.

    http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/about.html

  56. 56.

    http://www.elml.ch/Website/en/html/index.php

  57. 57.

    http://www.akleon.de/

  58. 58.

    http://arhiiv.koolielu.ee/

  59. 59.

    http://trac.htk.tlu.ee/waramu

  60. 60.

    http://www.ma.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/KELDAmed/

  61. 61.

    http://unity.zum.de/

  62. 62.

    http://oerwiki.iiep.unesco.org/index.php/Main_Page

  63. 63.

    http://wiki.zum.de/Hauptseite

  64. 64.

    http://www.skriptenforum.net/index.php/Hauptseite

  65. 65.

    http://www-m10.ma.tum.de/bin/view/MatheVital/WebHome

  66. 66.

    http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

  67. 67.

    http://www.ning.com/

  68. 68.

    http://sometu.ning.com/

  69. 69.

    http://www.elgg.org/

  70. 70.

    http://creativecommons.org/

  71. 71.

    http://cnx.org/

  72. 72.

    http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

  73. 73.

    http://educommons.com/

  74. 74.

    http://www.ndlr.ie/

  75. 75.

    http://oerconsortium.org/campus-kit/

  76. 76.

    http://www.derby.ac.uk/pocket

  77. 77.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGranary_Digital_Library

  78. 78.

    http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/teachingandlearning/alldisplay?type=projectsandnewid=oer/OER_IND_Westminsterandsite=york

  79. 79.

    http://oer-quality.org/

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Conole, G. (2012). Realising the Vision of Open Educational Resources. In: Designing for Learning in an Open World. Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8517-0_13

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