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Opensource.com Open Education Content
We are teaming up with Opensource.com who will be hosting two weeks of open education content from 8th – 9th September 2014. They will be featuring educators, students, and others writing about better,...
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A global shift to open source at the university
This week Opensource.com are publishing a series of posts on open education. We’re supporting their hard work by republishing this post from Jodi Biddle. Jodie is a writer for Red Hat Enterprise...
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Tertiary education in Rwanda to go the open way
Advisory Board member Bernard Nkuyubwatsi is following up his previous posts on A Multidimensional Migration for Social Inclusion: A Personal Account and Open Education Rwanda with some exciting news...
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MOOCs on MOOCs
We’ve all heard about MOOCs but are you aware of key concepts, methods and practices in the MOOC paradigm? So how about a MOOC on MOOCs? Today we have a guest post from Balaji Venkataraman from the...
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Supporting Schools to use OERs
At the Open Education Working Group there is often reflection that there are great things happening in the open education world but many of these don’t transpose to educational spaces, such as schools....
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OER Schools conference
Last week the Open Education Working Group attended a hugely important open education event: the OER Schools conference held in Leicester. The event was organised to support a landmark decision by...
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Teaching children about Creative Commons Licenses to re-use images
Time for our second Open Education Week post! At the recent OER Schools Conference in Leicester it was great to meet teachers who are working at the coalface – sharing their lesson plans and resources...
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7th Open Education Working Group Call: Open Data as Open Educational Resources
Our seventh Open Education Working Group Call will take place on Thursday 4th June at 1pm BST / 2pm CEST (note that this is a change to the previously advertised date). Call links: Google hangout – (to...
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Thanks to everyone who attended our call earlier today! The video is now available online and embedded below. We focused on the theme of ‘Open Data as Open Educational Resources’. There were three...
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Share Experiences of Open Data as OER
We are inviting individuals and teams to submit case studies describing experiences in the use of open data as open educational resources. Proposals are open to everyone who would like to promote good...
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Flagging OER16: Open Culture
While things are quiet and people are enjoying their summer holidays (here on the Northern part of the globe!) I thought it would be a good time to mention OER16 which will take place on the 19th and...
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Is there a link between OER and economic growth?
Should countries invest more in education to promote economic growth? Education is crucial towards the path of socio-economic development in one country. An educated population is one of the keys in...
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Open Education Brazil – a view from eMundus
Our next post on Open Education from Around the World comes from Brazil. With over 204 million people, Brazil is the 5th most populous country in the world. Its territorial area covers 48% of the total...
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Using the data from the OER Research Hub
Given the topicality of the OER Research Hub recent research outputs we are pleased to be able to reproduce on our blog a post from Robert Schuwer on how he is using the data that the OER Research Hub...
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Mapping OER. Analysis of the current state of open educational resources...
An interesting report about the landscape of open educational resources in Germany has been recently published. It can be translated as “Mapping OER. Analysis of the current state of open educational...
View ArticleAdult Education and OER: conclusions and policy recommendations for Europe
This posting deals with the conclusions and policy recommendations from the Adult Education and Open Educational Resources study for the European Parliament, a 140-page “Study”, written by Sero,...
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Open Data as Open Educational Resources: Case studies of emerging practice
Javiera Atenas and Leo Havemann This post marks the official publication of the volume: Open Data as Open Educational Resources: Case studies of emerging practice. The process of developing this...
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OpeningupSlovenia kick-starts “Openingup” in the Balkans
OpeningupSlovenia was launched on April 23, 2014 at the OCW Consortium Global Conference 2014 in Ljubljana. Androulla Vassiliou European Commissioner, Directorate General for Education and Culture was...
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the Open Educators Factory (OEF) project
This post introduces the Open Educators Factory (OEF) project, a research effort aiming to explore how to transform university teachers from “agents of resistance” into “agents of change” for openness...
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Edu-AREA: An Open Educational Resources Platform to Support Teaching Innovation
Edu-AREA (http://www.edu-area.com) is an open educational resources platform to support teaching innovation developed at the University of Vigo in Spain. Its main goal is to promote teachers as...
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