Thursday 9 September 2010

Interesting Literature on Open Educational Resources (OERs)

A link to a great resource on OER for education is the Open Education Resources Handbook for educators at http://www.lulu.com/content/3597933

An interesting report on the impact of web 2.0 innovations on Education and Training in Europe is at http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC49108.pdf (a pdf to download)

A good dissertation on how and why learning objects are re-used (or not!)
http://www.archive.org/details/PatternsOfLearningObjectReuseInTheConnexionsRepository

A good,clear summary of Creative Commons licences is at the JISC publications site at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/bpcreativecommons.aspx

The African Copyright & Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) Project is probing the relationship in African countries between national copyright environments and access to hard-copy and digital learning materials. The project is probing this relationship
http://openeducation.developmentgateway.org/?itemId=1153561&intcmp=700


An open e-book on 'how to tutor online' with some good tips and resources - more relevant to the general topic of online course design and construction http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/all-records/ev029


The OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - links to more information on OER http://www.oecd.org/document/20/0,3343,en_2649_35845581_35023444_1_1_1_1,00.html
 
UNESCO Open Training Platform - policy guidelines and lots of other resources from UNESCO at http://opentraining.unesco-ci.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?d=1
 
Opening Up Education (MIT Press) - a wide selection of articles and sample chapters on open education and open processes at http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11309&mode=toc
 
The Instructional Use of Learning Objects (free online book) at http://www.reusability.org/read/

Link to Athabasca University Press (buy books in hard copy or download and print free http://www.aupress.ca/ Especially worth noting is
"The theory and practice of online learning" at http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120146

Giving knowledge for free: The emergence of Open Educational Resources OECD Publication, ISBN 978-92-64-03174-6 available for purchase from www.sourceoecd.org/education/9789264031746

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