The OER Knowledge Cloud: Use Of Open Educational Resources: Challenges And Strategies

Use of Open Educational Resources: Challenges and strategies

Chen, Qing · Tsang, P. [secondary] · Cheung, SKS [secondary] · Lee, VSK [secondary] · Huang, RH [secondary]

Published	2010
Type of work	Proceedings Paper
Conference	Hybrid Learning
Publisher	Hong Kong Pei Hua Educ Fdn; Int Hybrid Learning Soc; City Univ Hong Kong; Univ Hong Kong, Sch Profess & Continuing Educ
Country	Germany

ABSTRACT

Since MIT announced its OpenCourseWare Program in 2001, Open educational resources has gradually developed into a practical hotspot and got rapidly development in the higher education field of the world. In a sense, the essence and ultimate purpose of the existing and development of OER is effective sharing and utilization of it. How to facilitate the sharing and utilization of OER among the society is one of the key issues in the OER research and development area at present. This paper, based on the literature research and web search methods, has studied the present status of utilization of OER and related researches, analyzed the challenges or problems in OER's sharing and using, and put forward a series of strategies which are expected to facilitate the effective utilization of OER from the three perspectives of technology, mechanism, and pedagogy.

Keywords

literature review · OER challenges · OER utilization · Open Educational Resources · strategies

Published at	Heidelberger Platz 3, D-14197 Berlin
Language	eng
ISBN	978-3-642-14656-5
URL	http://www.citeulike.org/user/ekursun/article/7694373
Export options	BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar

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