[PDF] Top 20 A staff guide to Open Educational Resources

... Jorum provides access to free learning and teaching resources, created and contributed by staff from UK further and higher education institutions. Jorum is a JISC-funded service, run by the two national ... See full document

... Essentially, the OER case study yielded results that exceeded the parameters of the study. At the course design level, the data collected identified the OER formats that would be more useful in a given context or campus, ... See full document

... Some faculty and students may be unfamiliar with the issues of copyright and fair use. It would therefore also be advisable for first-time users to refer to the Guide to Open Content Licenses ... See full document

... area. Open learning approach removes unnecessary barriers to learning es- pecially for adult learning (Marina, ...which open up doors for different areas of ...Basic Guide to OER’ (Butcher, 2015), ... See full document

... of Open Data can be key in the development of transversal skills (including digital and data literacies, alongside skills for critical thinking, research, teamwork, and global citizenship), enhancing students’ ... See full document

... online educational environment that is not serving the students of the university only, but keeps on providing online learning and knowledge to international learners in their proper context of requesting ...of ... See full document

... more open learning environments to deliver education of higher quality and efficacy (European Commission, ...high-quality resources is strategically important as a lever for governments and policy makers ... See full document

... of Open Data can be key in the development of transversal skills (including digital and data literacies, alongside skills for critical thinking, research, teamwork, and global citizenship), enhancing students’ ... See full document

... to open inter-organisational ...to open their own tools and systems up to use with collaborators, but this creates overheads in developing approaches to ...to staff build competencies in these ... See full document

... among staff and learners. The creation of OER by the staff is essential to the success of the OER ...of staff towards creating OER should be examined and monitored because this can impact OER ... See full document

... There are indentified points of contact between libraries and OER initiatives and ways in which they could collaborate to better support academic staff and students. This paper has sought to sketch out some ideas ... See full document

... P laces: OER are commonly deposited and accessed through content sharing systems, open source platforms, portals and repositories. Some of the more popular sites worth familiarising yourself with include JORUM, ... See full document

... the resources can be used to support educators in the delivery of educational ...using open educational ...the resources, the benefits they derive from using the resources, the ... See full document

... declaration (Unesco 2012), it is important to ‘Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts. Favour the production and use of OER in local languages and diverse cultural ... See full document

... in open learning space benefit from a wide range of expertise beyond textbooks and classrooms, perhaps including experts and senior level peers in their ... See full document

... learning resources which hiders smooth learning in the ...human resources enhances the quality and relevance of imparted skills to ...learning resources in ... See full document

... Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have generated high expectations and revolutionized some educational practices by providing open educational resources for reference, usage and ... See full document

... teaching resources across institutional boundaries are more likely to regard openness favourably and integrate it into their ...around open licensing caused tension even where publicly visible peer review ... See full document

... Figure 2 depicted the participant’s profile who actively publish and sharing information in the OER platform for respective thread. Consequently, OER represent an important way to enrich those strategies that should ... See full document

... Then the correlations among the indicators of the various categories were studied. Table 2 shows that there is a strong correlation among the explicit ratings given by experts. However, there is hardly any correlation ... See full document