Open Educational Resources for development of university courses
| Published | September 2010 |
| Conference | UOC, OU, BYU |
ABSTRACT
Open Education Resources are educational materials purposely made available for free use by others. They offer tremendous potential for reducing costs and increasing access to education especially in the developing world. This paper discusses issues of quality, localization, adaptation and integration that need to be addressed in order to make OER adoption a successful strategy.| Keywords | OER adoption · challenges · curriculum · OER quality · sharing |
| Published at | Barcelona |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | by-nc-nd/3.0 |
| URL | http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/4846/6/Richards.pdf |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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