Open educational resources
Subtitle: conversations in cyberspace
By: [edited by Susan D'Antoni and Catriona Savage]
Contributors: Unesco
Series: Education on the move; Education on the move
Publisher: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9789231040856
Subjects: Internet in education; Open source software; Distance education; Software; Computer-assisted instruction; Educational technology; Educational equalization; Technological innovations; Educational Technology; Internet en éducation; Logiciels libres; Enseignement à distance; Logiciels; Enseignement assisté par ordinateur; Technologie éducative; Démocratisation de l'enseignement; Innovations; Innovations pédagogiques; Technologie de l'éducation; Internet; E-Learning; Projets d'éducation; Utbildning via Internet; Distansundervisning; Datorstödd undervisning
Description: Education systems today face two major challenges: expanding the reach of education and improving its quality. Traditional solutions will not suffice, especially in the context of today's knowledge-intensive societies. The Open Educational Resources movement offers one solution for extending the reach of education and expanding learning opportunities. The goal of the movement is to equalize access to knowledge worldwide through openly and freely available online high-quality content. Over the course of two years, the international community came together in a series of online discussion forums to discuss the concept of Open Educational Resources and its potential. This publication makes the background papers and reports from those discussions available in print.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-26).

Also freely available online.
Table of contents: title: A first forum : presenting the open educational resources (OER) movement. Open educational resources : an introductory note / Sally Johnstone; title: Providing OER and related issues : an introductory note / Anne Margulies [and others]; title: Using OER and related issues : in introductory note / Mohammed-Nabil Sabry [and others]; title: Discussion highlights / Paul Albright; title: Ongoing discussion. A research agenda for OER : discussion highlights / Kim Tucker and Peter Bateman; title: A 'do-it-yourself' resource for OER : discussion highlights / Boris Vukovic; title: Free and open source software (FOSS) and OER; title: A second forum : discussing the OECD study of OER. Mapping procedures and users / Jan Hylén; title: Why individuals and institutions share and use OER / Jan Hylén; title: Discussion highlights / Alexa Joyce; title: Priorities for action. Open educational resources : the way forward / Susan D'Antoni.