Open-sourcing' personal learning
| Published | April 2014 |
| Journal | Journal of Interactive Media in Education Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 1-14 |
| Publisher | Ubiquity Press Ltd. |
ABSTRACT
This article offers a critical reflection on the contemporary Open Educational Resource (OER) movement, its unquestioned investment in a collective 'content fetish' and an educational 'problem description' that focuses on issues of scarcity, access, and availability of quality materials. It also argues that OER proponents fail to take notice of historically new forms of learning activity emerging within the unfolding digital transformation of our global society. The article reviews some descriptive accounts of such learning activity and suggests that 'networked autodidaxy' in particular can provide inspiration for the critical review of our ideas regarding open resources and practices in education.| Keywords | digital transformation · emerging learning activity · networked autodidaxy · Open Educational Resources · personal learning |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | by/3.0 |
| DOI | 10.5334/2014-04 |
| URL | http://jime.open.ac.uk/article/view/2014-04/521 |
| Other information | JIME |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
AVAILABLE FILES
Viewed by 75 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
Expanding approaches for understanding impact: integrating technology, curriculum, and open educational resources in science education.
Ye, Lei; Recker, Mimi; Walker, Andrew; Leary, Heather; Yuan, Min
This article reports results from a scale-up study of the impact of a software tool designed to support teachers in the digital learning era. This tool, the Curriculum Customization Service (CCS), enables teachers to ...
Match: learning; Open Educational Resources
Conversation is the key : A short history of smarthistory.org
Harris, Beth; Zucker, Steven
Smarthistory.org is a proven, sustainable model for open educational resources in the Humanities. We discuss lessons learned during its agile development. Smarthistory.org is a free, creative-commons licensed, ...
Match: learning; Open Educational Resources
A practice-oriented review of learning objects
Sinclair, Jane; Joy, Mike; Yin-Kim Yau, Jane; Hagan, Stephen
Reusable learning objects support packaging of educational materials allowing their discovery and reuse. Open educational resources emphasize the need for open licensing and promote sharing and community involvement. ...
Match: learning; Open Educational Resources
A Comparative Study of National Infrastructures for Digital (Open) Educational Resources in Higher Education
Marín, Victoria I.; Bond, Melissa; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Aydin, Cengiz H.; et al.
This paper reports on the first stage of an international comparative study for the project “Digital educational architectures: Open learning resources in distributed learning infrastructures–EduArc”, funded by ...
Match: digital transformation
Live annotation and content discovery in personal learning environments
Corneli, Joseph; Mikroyannidis, Alexander
Match: Open Educational Resources; personal learning
Evaluating Open Educational Resources
Horn, Eileen; Pierick, Kristine
The article focuses on the open educational resources (OERs), which are learning materials that can be used in online courses. It mentions the importance of the materials in enhancing the learning of the students. An ...
Match: learning
Beyond the "c" and the "x": Learning with algorithms in massive open online courses (MOOCs)
Knox, Jeremy
This article examines how algorithms are shaping student learning in massive open online courses (MOOCs). Following the dramatic rise of MOOC platform organisations in 2012, over 4,500 MOOCs have been offered to date, ...
Match: learning
Connectivism: Its place in theory-informed research and innovation in technology-enabled learning
Bell, Frances; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne
The sociotechnical context for learning and education is dynamic and makes great demands on those trying to seize the opportunities presented by emerging technologies. The goal of this paper is to explore certain ...
Match: learning
An Assessment of Open Educational Resources by students in selected Academic Institutions in Southwest, Nigeria
Miracle, Njeze
This paper examined assessment of Open Educational Resources (OER) by students in selected Academic Institutions in Southwest Nigeria. A descriptive research design was used for this study and the instrument used for ...
Match: learning
Health OER: Lessons from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Donkor, Peter; Tagoe, Nadia
Information and communication technology (ICT) offers the opportunity to innovate on course content and teaching methods in order to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in tertiary education. One such ...
Match: learning
