Open Educational Resources: Experiences of use in a Latin-American context
| Published | September 2010 |
| Conference | UOC, OU, BYU |
ABSTRACT
This paper presents practical experiences using Open educational Resources (OER) for basic and elementary education (K12), educational research and research training on two inter-institutional projects with the collaboration of thirteen higher education institutions and with the support of the Corporación de Universidades para el Desarrollo del Internet (CUDI) and by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y TecnologÃa (CONACYT) of Mexico and hosted by the Tecnológico de Monterrey. The first initiative is titled "Knowledge Hub for K-12 Education" with the main goal of enrich a catalog of Open Educational Resources for basic and elementary education (K-12) for Mexico and Spanish speaking countries in Latin-America. The main goal of the second initiative is to build a collection of Open Educational Resources for Mobile Learning to address the issue of educational research and research training.| Keywords | non-English OER · mLearning · research · educational resources · challenges · learning experiences · repository · K-12 |
| Published at | Barcelona |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | by-nc-nd/3.0 |
| URL | http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/5062/6/Burgos_editat.pdf |
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