Committee, Joint Information Systems [corporate]

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Windle, Richard J.; Wharrad, Heather; McCormick, Damion; Laverty, Helen; Taylor, Michael G.

The open educational resource (OER) movement has the potential to have a truly transformative effect on higher education, but in order to do so it must move into the mainstream and facilitate widespread participation in ...

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Helme, Marion

This project began with three principle objectives: • To critically assess the enablers and barriers to releasing learning resources in Public Health • To develop a conceptual framework to inform OER ...

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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 ...

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Bell, Frances; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

The sociotechnical context for learning and education is dynamic and makes great demands on those trying to seize the opportunities presented by emerging technologies. The goal of this paper is to explore certain ...

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South African Institute for Distance Education; OER Africa

This is a short, simple tutorial to acquire the skills necessary to search for open content, decipher Creative Commons rights and permissions and evaluate the usefulness of Open Educational Resources (OER) for new ...

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Cooney, Cailean

This article reports findings from a study conducted with students in three sections of a Health Psychology course that replaced a traditional textbook with open educational resources (OER) as the primary course ...

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Henderson, Susie; Nelson, David

Can open textbooks provide a viable solution to the high cost of textbooks? Are open textbooks quality books? What will encourage faculty to develop or adopt open textbooks? What is a book? How do students prefer to ...

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Balaji, Venkataraman; Sodhi, Balwinder; Prabhakar, T V

Presentation slides of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences Brainstorming Session in partnership with COL, New Delhi, India, 5 March 2014. By Venkataraman Balaji, Commonwealth of Learning, co-written with ...

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Witthaus, Gabi

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Allen, Nicole; Student PIRGS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY College textbook prices have skyrocketed in recent years, threatening the affordability and accessibility of higher education in America. The average student spends $900 on textbooks annually, which ...

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