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Open education
Pisutova, K.

Published2012
Conference2012 IEEE 10th International Conference on Emerging eLearning Technologies and Applications (ICETA)2012 IEEE 10th International Conference on Emerging eLearning Technologies and Applications (ICETA)
Pages 297 - 300
PublisherIEEE
CountrySlovakia

ABSTRACT
Introduction to some concepts of openness in education. This presentation addresses concepts of Open Licensing (Creative Commons licenses), Open Content, Open Coursewere, Open Educational Resources, and Open Teaching (Massive Open Online Courses - MOOC). The presentation loosely follow structure of David Wiley's Introduction to Openness in Education course[1], but chooses areas to focus on. The main focus is kept on open teaching and Massive Open Online Courses.

Keywords creative commons licenses ·  · MOOC · open content · open courseware · open education · Open Educational Resources · open licensing · open teaching

Published atStar Lesn
Languageen
ISBN978-1-4673-5121-8
DOI10.1109/ICETA.2012.6418317
URLhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?reload=true&tp=&arnumber=6418317&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6418317
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