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Burgos Aguilar, José Vladimir; Cox, Glenda; Czerniewicz, Laura; D'Antoni, Susan; et al.

Open Educational Resources (OER) – that is, teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free to others to use, revise and share – offer a powerful means of expanding the reach and effectiveness ...

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Kirschner, Paul A.; Varvick, Peter; van Dorp, Cornelis Adrianus; Lane, Andy

In contrast to the face-to-face learning of campus based universities and the focus on traditional students, distance teaching universities focus on a mix of distance learning, e-learning, open learning, virtual ...

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Lane, Andy; Connolly, Teresa; Okada, Alexandra; Scott, Peter J.

This chapter examines the role that open educational resources might play in widening participation in higher education. It begins by highlighting the perceived importance of widening participation in higher education ...

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Gourley, Brenda; Lane, Andy

This paper describes the internal motivations and external drivers that led The Open University UK to enter the field of Open Educational Resources through its institution‐wide OpenLearn initiative ...

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Lane, Andy; Connolly, Teresa; Ferreira, Giselle; McAndrew, Patrick; et al.

Open educational resources are largely a phenomenon of the Web, although they can be used as offline resources. We have provided a rough guide to the OER world, and OpenLearn in particular in the case study, ...

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This document provides an overview of the literature and includes the full set of case studies provided by partners describing how OER can or might influence participation in higher education in different states across ...

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Lane, Andy; McAndrew, Patrick

Open educational resources (OER) raise many similar issues for education to those that have surrounded Learning Objects (LO). However the greater use and availability of digital technologies and open licensing seems to ...

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Lane, Andy; McAndrew, Patrick; Santos, A.

Open Educational Resources (OER) give an openly available set of content and tools that in principle provide a basis for formal and informal communication and collaboration between groups of individuals around teaching ...

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Lane, Andy; Comas-Quinn, Anna; Thompson, Simon

This special issue is the fifth devoted to Open Educational Resources (OER) and the fourth to be drawn from papers presented at the annual UK-based OER conference. For this special issue, the editors selected papers ...

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Bateman, Peter; Lane, Andy; Moon, Bob

This paper describes how a typology was developed and used between 2008 and 2010 to investigate three different open educational resources (OER) initiatives in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The typology was first developed ...

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