Learning the Lessons of Openness
The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has built up a record of experience and achievements since it was formed 10 years ago as an identifiable approach to sharing online learning materials. In its initial phase, much activity was driven by ideals and interest in finding new ways to release...
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| author | Patrick McAndrew Robert Farrow Gary Elliott-Cirigottis Patrina Law |
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| description | The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has built up a record of experience and achievements since it was formed 10 years ago as an identifiable approach to sharing online learning materials. In its initial phase, much activity was driven by ideals and interest in finding new ways to release content, with less direct research and reflection on the process. It is now important to consider the impact of OER and the types of evidence that are being generated across initiatives, organisations and individuals. Drawing on the work of OLnet (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">http://olnet.org) in bringing people together through fellowships, research projects and supporting collective intelligence about OER, we discuss the key challenges facing the OER movement. We go on to consider these challenges in the context of another project, Bridge to Success (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">http://b2s.aacc.edu), identifying the services which can support open education in the future. <span class="sub_head">Keywords: OER, policy, open education, services, reflection, collective intelligence |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d5deb1a7f10845ed8cdf062aa0ec55a52022-12-21T23:32:27ZengUbiquity PressJournal of Interactive Media in Education1365-893X2012-10-012012210.5334/2012-10252Learning the Lessons of OpennessPatrick McAndrew0Robert Farrow1Gary Elliott-Cirigottis2Patrina Law3The Open UniversityThe Open UniversityThe Open UniversityThe Open UniversityThe Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has built up a record of experience and achievements since it was formed 10 years ago as an identifiable approach to sharing online learning materials. In its initial phase, much activity was driven by ideals and interest in finding new ways to release content, with less direct research and reflection on the process. It is now important to consider the impact of OER and the types of evidence that are being generated across initiatives, organisations and individuals. Drawing on the work of OLnet (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">http://olnet.org) in bringing people together through fellowships, research projects and supporting collective intelligence about OER, we discuss the key challenges facing the OER movement. We go on to consider these challenges in the context of another project, Bridge to Success (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">http://b2s.aacc.edu), identifying the services which can support open education in the future. <span class="sub_head">Keywords: OER, policy, open education, services, reflection, collective intelligencehttps://jime.open.ac.uk/articles/240oeropen educationpolicyservicesreflectioncollective intelligence |
| spellingShingle | Patrick McAndrew Robert Farrow Gary Elliott-Cirigottis Patrina Law Learning the Lessons of Openness Journal of Interactive Media in Education oer open education policy services reflection collective intelligence |
| title | Learning the Lessons of Openness |
| title_full | Learning the Lessons of Openness |
| title_fullStr | Learning the Lessons of Openness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning the Lessons of Openness |
| title_short | Learning the Lessons of Openness |
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| topic | oer open education policy services reflection collective intelligence |
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