What makes an open education program sustainable? The case of Connexions
| Published | May 2006 |
| Periodical | Pages 1-25 |
| Publisher | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
ABSTRACT
The past five years have witnessed the emergence of a growing movement of concerned educators and scientists who aim to open up access to the world's knowledge resources. Inspired by parallel developments in the open source software world such as the Linux operating system and the Apache web server, this Open Education movement seeks to provide free access to quality teaching materials that can be customized and personalized to match local contexts (language, level, users' educational goals, etc.). Furthermore, the Open Education movement seeks to empower and link local educators within a global knowledge community that can benefit and efficiently propagate educational content.| Keywords | collaboration · information technology · OER creation · open source software |
| Language | eng |
| URL | http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/3/6/36781781.pdf |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
AVAILABLE FILES
Viewed by 129 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
Challenges and opportunities for the Open Education movement: A Connexions case study
Baraniuk, Richard G.; Iiyoshi, Toru; Kumar, M. S. V.
Match: baraniuk, richard g.; connexions
Simplicity and design as key success factors of the OER repository LeMill
Toikkanen, Tarmo
This article focuses on the OER (Open Educational Resources) repository LeMill, which is a web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources, provided as a free and open service to everyone at ...
Match: collaboration; oer creation; open source software
Skill development through MOOC for inclusive and sustainable development: A review of policies in the Asian Commonwealth countries
Gaba, Ashok K; Mishra, Sanjaya
Economic growth of the Commonwealth countries in Asia depends on productivity and the availability of the skilled human resources. About 70 per cent of the Commonwealth’s two billion citizens belong to South Asia. ...
Match: sustainable
Toward sustainable open education resources: A perspective from the global south
Kanwar, Asha; Kodhandaraman, Balasubramanian; Umar, Abdurrahman
One of the emerging issues in educational discourse today is the development and use of Open Education Resources (OER) and their potential in expanding access and improving the quality of education, particularly in ...
Match: sustainable; oer creation
Open textbook proof-of-concept via Connexions
Baker, Judy; Thierstein, Joel; Fletcher, Kathi; Kaur, Manpreet; Emmons, Jonathan
To address the high cost of textbooks, Rice University's Connexions and the Community College Open Textbook Project (CCOTP) collaborated to develop a proof-of-concept free and open textbook. The proof-of-concept served ...
Match: connexions
Open education and the sustainable development goals: Making change happen
Lane, Andy
Education for All has been a concept at the heart of international development since 1990 and has found its latest instantiation within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as SDG 4, ‘Ensure inclusive and ...
Match: sustainable
Open education for a better world: A mentoring programme fostering design and reuse of Open Educational Resources for sustainable development goals
Urbančič, Tanja; Polajnar, Anja; Jermol, Mitja
An international online mentoring programme Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) has been developed to unlock the potential of open education in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The programme ...
Match: sustainable
Cultivating textbook alternatives from the ground up: One public university’s sustainable model for open and alternative educational resource proliferation
Lashley, Jonathan; Cummings-Sauls, Rebel; Bennett, Andrew; Lindshield, Brian
This note from the field reviews the sustainability of an institution-wide program for adopting and adapting open and alternative educational resources (OAER) at Kansas State University (K-State). Developed in consult ...
Match: sustainable
Utilizing open educational practices to support sustainable higher education in the United Arab Emirates
Adhya, Debolina Halder; Al Bastaki, Eesa M.; Suleymanova, Sara; Muhammad, Nasiruddeen; Purushothaman, Arunprasad
The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled higher education institutions (HEI) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and globally to shift to a new pedagogy that is sustainable and resilient to crises and disruptions. It ...
Match: sustainable
Do open educational resources improve student learning? Implications of the access hypothesis
Grimaldi, Phillip J.; Basu Mallick, Debshila; Waters, Andrew E.; Baraniuk, Richard G.
Open Educational Resources (OER) have been lauded for their ability to reduce student costs and improve equity in higher education. Research examining whether OER provides learning benefits have produced mixed results, ...
Match: baraniuk, richard g.
