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We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.” That is, while universities have posted their syllabi, handouts, and quizzes online, there has not been — until recently — much “Web 2.0″ OCW resources — little opportunity for interaction and engagement with the material. 
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The President of Athabasca University has confirmed the University’s commitment to join the OER Foundation and support the OER Tertiary Education Network (OERTen) initiative as a founding anchor partner.
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A key part of OERs is that they are available under a Creative Commons License which permits the re-use and even re-mixing of educational resources.
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While EducationBridge searches in that “federation” of OERs from the above-mentioned and more organisations, the result also shows similar texts. “The value-add here is, you get relevant content in a precise and concise form. You can use the content in a mix and match manner to create assignments etc,” says Thieringer. It gives you a “fine” result — relevant, contextual, contemporary, he emphasises. It is designed to make it easy for users to search for the desired text or even visuals lying among the millions of pages of OER.
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How Open Educational Resources are Changing Higher EducationHuffington Post (blog)The OER movement is not only growing: it is exploding.
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This is a pretty good definition of OER, and as anyone familiar with the territory can tell you, that is no small feat. But what is even more important, is to define what we *really* mean by OER. ...
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College students are more burdened by higher education costs than ever before.
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Open Education Resources (OERs) and Open Education Practices (OEP) are changing the education sector around the world, with teachers and lecturers placing their learning and teaching materials on the internet for others to use. This article is one of a series that talks about open education.
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A great article published by The Chronicle of Higher Education was making the rounds today. This is how it started out:
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If I was writing a manifesto on OER it would start with/ cover some of this:
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Reflections on a twitter conversation around openness, public funding, and academics as work-for-hire...
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Great OER content is out there. Gather that content, stitch it together, and engage learners w/o reinventing the wheel.
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Rob Reynolds, Ph.D., presents an overview of free learning content on the Web, as well as the tools and tricks for finding and using these resources within traditional learning contexts.
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