Open educational resources at UCL
| Published | 2010 |
| Journal | TILT2010: Education for Global Citizenship Pages 1–10 |
| Country | United Kingdom, Europe |
ABSTRACT
OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting todays classrooms. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices.| Keywords | best practices · education · higher education · K-12 · Open Educational Resources · UKOER · web 2.0 |
| Published at | London |
| Language | eng |
| URL | http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/20096/ |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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