International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) [corporate]

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International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)

A press release relating the results from discussions at the ICDE - UNESCO Policy Forum in Bali, November 2014.

Match: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE); higher education

Andrade, António; Ehlers, Ulf Daniel; Caine, Abel; Carneiro, Roberto; et al.

Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an intellectual property license that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution. In ...

Match: education; higher education; policy

Cox, Glenda; Trotter, Henry; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Arinto, Patricia B.

The research presented here focuses on understanding the obstacles, opportunities and practices associated with Open Educational Resources (OER) adoption at three South African universities. It addresses the question: ...

Match: access; higher education; policy

Willems, Julie; Bossu, Carina

Open educational resources (OER) have become new buzzwords in the glocalization of education. While OER are often espoused as enabling educational equity, the reality is not always the case. Looking only at the ...

Match: education; equity

Souto-Otero, Manuel; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; Shields, Robin; Lažetić, Predrag; et al.

OpenCases is a study which is part of the OpenEdu Project. It is a qualitative study consisting of a review of literature on open education and nine in-depth case studies of higher education institutions, a consortium ...

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Tiedau, Ulrich

OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting ...

Match: education; higher education

Olakulehin, Felix Kayode; Singh, Gurmit

Bourdieu has argued that higher education is a field that reproduces social inequality, thus complicating how openness widens access to higher education in the developing world. Drawing on the experiences of the ...

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Mackintosh, Wayne; Open Education Resource Foundation

Five Open Educational Resource University (OERu) questions answered: 1) Why is OERu significant? 2) How does OERu work? 3) What are the recurrent operational costs? 4) What are the benefits? 5) How to become an anchor ...

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McGreal, Rory

This piece highlights how Open Educational Resources (OER) can help bridge the knowledge divide to achieve equity in education. The author discusses the different digital barriers set in place to prevent free access to ...

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Van Allen, Jennifer; Katz, Stacy

Purpose Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials openly licensed so that others may retain, reuse, revise, remix or redistribute (the 5Rs) these materials. This paper aims to raise awareness of OER by ...

Match: access; equity