Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and challenges for higher education
Published | 2008 |
Periodical | Pages 1-34 |
Publisher | Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) CETIS |
ABSTRACT
This briefing paper [looks] at the latest developments and trends in Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives worldwide and serves as a quick introduction to funding bodies, institutions and educators who are interested in OER initiatives. The paper includes three sections: a) the conceptual and contextual issues of Open Educational Resources; b) current OER initiatives: their scale, approaches, main issues and challenges; and c) trends emerging in Open Educational Resources, with respect to future research and activities.Keywords | OER projects · repository · reuse · challenges · higher education |
Language | eng |
Rights | by/3.0 |
URL | http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf |
Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
AVAILABLE FILES
Viewed by 100 distinct readers
CLOUD COMMUNITY REVIEWS
The evaluations below represent the judgements of our readers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cloud editors.










Click a star to be the first to rate this document
▶ POST A COMMENT
SIMILAR RECORDS
Integrating MOOCs in regular higher education: Challenges and opportunities from a Scandinavian perspective
Dalipi, Fisnik; Ferati, Mexhid; Kurti, Arianit; Zaphiris, Panayiotis; Ioannou, Andri
MOOCs are increasingly being considered by universities as an integral part of their curriculum. Nevertheless, there are several challenges that to some extent slow this process, where the most important one is the ...
Match: opportunities; challenges; higher education
Open educational resources (OER): Opportunities and challenges for Indian higher education
Dutta, Indrajeet
Creation of knowledge workers holds key for success of a country. Unfortunately, many of the countries though having chain of human resources yet are unable to transform human resources to their advantage as they face ...
Match: opportunities; challenges; higher education
MOOCS and open education: Implications for higher education
Yuan, Li; Powell, Stephen
Executive Summary
1.1. THE FOCUS OF THE REPORT
This report sets out to help decision makers in higher education institutions gain a better understanding of the phenomenon of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and ...
Match: yuan, li; higher education
Opportunities to embed open and online education in campus education
Ouwehand, Martijn; Judith van Hooijdonk; Baas, Marjon; van Hees, Janina; et al.
Although OER were already introduced by MIT some fifteen years ago, it was not until the emergence of MOOCs in 2012 that open and online education truly took flight. Following initial announcements from research ...
Match: opportunities; reuse; higher education
Enhance teaching and learning of less used languages through OER/OEP: Working Policy Paper: OER-Challenges and opportunities for less used languages. A global and European perspective
Udnaes, Monique; International Council for Open and Distance Education
In order to formulate policy recommendations for the uptake of Open Educational Resources (OER) in less used languages (LUL) targeting governments and senior policy makers in the educational sector, ICDE first ...
Match: opportunities
Accreditation of prior learning as a lever for lifelong learning: Lessons learnt from the New Opportunities Initiative, Portugal
Carneiro, Roberto; Mendonça, Maria Amélia; Carneiro, Maria Ana; Valente, Ana Cláudia; et al.
The book gives an account of the research conducted in the independent evaluation of the New Opportunities Initiative (NOI), one of the largest Portuguese governmental programmes in recent decades to upgrade ...
Match: opportunities
Open Educational Resources: Opportunities and Challenges
Hylén, Jan
A discussion of a proposed OECD/CERI study to address four main concerns:
1. How to develop sustainable costs/benefits models for OER initiatives.
2. What are the intellectual property right issues linked to OER ...
Match: opportunities; challenges
Research opportunities for educational innovation in the era of MOOCs and learning analytics
Alario-Hoyos, Carlos
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have been a major revolution in education, especially in higher education, and have served as a catalyst for educational institutions to reflect (beyond the discussion of whether or ...
Match: opportunities; reuse
Open source resources in education: Opportunities and challenges
Friesen, Norm
The education community has been at the forefront in envisioning and conceptualizing infrastructures intended for utilizing and sharing digital content or resources. However, this community has faced challenges in ...
Match: opportunities; challenges
MOOCs – why (not)? Opportunities and barriers for European universities and organisations
Friedl, Christian; Maček, Anita; Driha, Oana; Jansen, Darco; et al.
Overview of papers on enhancement of European Higher Education as presented during the Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference in Rome, October 2016
This paper discusses the preliminary outcomes of a ...
Match: opportunities; higher education