eLearning Papers - New issue online: Open Educational Resources
A new issue of eLearning Papers is now online. The issue "Open Educational Resources" is guest edited by Sandra Schaffert and Riina Vuorikari who have done a wonderful work gathering this issue.
This
issue of eLearning Papers is dedicated to the thriving work around Open
Educational Resources (OER) by committed individuals, institutions and
user communities. Five selected papers by the guest editors investigate
the organisational, social, cultural, pedagogical and technical aspects
of implementing OER.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning and teaching materials
that are offered freely to anyone under licenses that allow to use,
modify and distribute the items. But that's not all. Through the
world-wide movement of OER, magnified with user-generated content and
underlying Web 2.0 technologies, the advantages and opportunities are
numerous for teachers, authors, eLearning practitioners, developers and
content providers, researchers and decision-makers, and last but not
least: learners.
The articles
are:
Open
Educational Resources for Management Education: Lessons from experience
by Cécile Rébillard, Jean-Philippe Rennard, Marc Humbert
Reflections
on sustaining Open Educational Resources: an institutional case study
by Andy Lane
OER
Models that Build a Culture of Collaboration: A Case Exemplified by
Curriki
by Barbara (Bobbi) Kurshan
Simplicity
and design as key success factors of the OER repository LeMill by Tarmo Toikkanen
Applying
Software Development Paradigms to Open Educational Resources by Seth Gurell