Adapting and sharing open educational resources: a social networking approach
Mikroyannidis, Alexander · Okada, Alexandra · Connolly, Teresa

PublishedJuly 2011
Journal2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
Pages 619–620

ABSTRACT
Open educational resources (OER) have recently emerged as an answer to the need for open and reusable educational material, freely available online. This paper describes a social networking approach in adapting and sharing OER. This approach aims to address the needs of a variety of stakeholders, including educational institutions, private organisations, as well as individual learners and educators.

Keywords adapting · collaboration · content creation · educators · learning community · running case · sharing · social · social networking · stakeholder clusters

Languageen
ISBN978-0-7695-4346-8
URLhttp://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=17949
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