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Three documents have been developed in the framework of the 2nd World OER Congress. The two documents: Open Educational Resources: From Commitment to Action and the Open Educational Resources: Global Report 2017 provide ...

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Jeans, Nick; Pepler, Giles; Bacsich, Paul

This report (a PDF file) is the first deliverable (out of three) of the study called A scoping study on the potential of shared, cross-border OER and syllabi in Europe - in short, SharedOER - that was carried out by ...

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A U.S. district court in Alexandria, Va., has issued a preliminary finding supporting the American Chemical Society in its case against the site Sci-Hub.

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Huang, Xiaowei; Lo, Chung Kwan; He, Jiaju; Xu, Simin; Kinshuk

In the post-pandemic world, open educational resources (OER) have the potential to ensure educational equity by providing all students with access to learning materials and by supporting teachers’ instructional ...

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Gondol, Jan; Allen, Nicole; Gil-Jaurena, Inés

An exciting new avenue for establishing and expanding national commitments to open education has emerged through the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a multilateral initiative that aims to secure commitments from ...

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Conole, Gráinne; McAndrew, Patrick; Dimitriadis, Yannis; Pozzi, Francesca; Persico, Donatella

Designing effective CSCL processes is a complex task that can be supported by existing good practices formulated as pedagogical patterns. From a cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) perspective previous research ...

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Grant, Cynthia; Tomal, Daniel R.

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and public and private cloud communities continue to flourish in the field of higher education. However, MOOCs have received criticism in recent years and offer little benefit to ...

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Buehler, Marianne A.

Legislation as a driver to oppose open access to data and journal article dissemination is not focused on the public good of accelerating research if it means sliding profits. US Federal Government legislation has ...

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Kirschner, Paul A.; Varvick, Peter; van Dorp, Cornelis Adrianus; Lane, Andy

In contrast to the face-to-face learning of campus based universities and the focus on traditional students, distance teaching universities focus on a mix of distance learning, e-learning, open learning, virtual ...

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Jobe, William; Östlund, Christian; Svensson, Lars

A MOOC is a trending concept in education that is disrupting traditional methods of learning consumption. The emergence and use of MOOCs for professional teacher development is still uncommon, but on the verge of ...

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