scholarly journals Open Educational Resources in Canada 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rory McGreal
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
One Step ◽  
National Networks ◽  
First Time

COVID 19 has had a wide impact on education internationally and specifically in Canada, with nearly all institutions now transitioning to online education, with many learning for the first time about Open Educational Resources (OER). Understanding what is happening with OER in the different regions of our country is one step in creating awareness and promoting national networks for sharing resources, serving to address local educational needs. Educators can assemble, adopt, adapt, design, and develop OER-based courses that can cost-effectively address the needs of Canadian students. This paper describes OER-related initiatives and implementations across Canada that can serve as examples to educators and administrators, who because of COVID 19, are offering online courses for the first time.  

Beyond Textbooks

2019 ◽  
pp. 182-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley S. J. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Academic Needs ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
Reference Tool

Textbooks can serve as a good starting point for learning concepts or serve as a reinforcing reference tool for students. However, to address the various academic needs of students, as well as to affirm the richness and depth of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions in online courses, online instructors should complement and supplement textbooks with other resources in various formats. Education has a growing need for digital resources, starting with digital textbooks, and expanding to other kinds of educational resources. Open educational resources, in particular, provide cost-effective and flexible tools for teaching and learning.

Re-Purposing MOOCs and OER for Academic Credit in the UK Using a Flexible Work Based Learning Program at an English University

2016 ◽  
pp. 121-143
Author(s):  
Jon Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The rapid development of open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs) has resulted for the first time in high quality higher education learning materials being freely available to anyone in the world who has access to the internet. While the emphasis in the literature is principally upon such matters as technology and cost pressures, rather less attention has been paid to ways in which pedagogical practices can be adapted to address these changes. This chapter reports on a UK university where innovative pedagogical practices have developed over a twenty-year period, which enables such adaptation. The development of a flexible work based learning framework enables the exploitation of these developments for the benefit of learners, tutors, and the university. The case study also highlights the importance of quality assurance and cost as key to competitive advantage in an increasingly globalised context.

scholarly journals Learner Autonomy through the Adoption of Open Educational Resources Using Social Network Services and Multi-media E-textbooks

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Masumi Hori ◽  
Seishi Ono ◽  
Shinzo Kobayashi ◽  
Kazutsuna Yamaji ◽  
Toshihiro Kita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Network Services ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Social Network Services

With the development of social network services (SNS) on the Internet, the world has gained access to vast amounts of information resources, allowing people to carefully research and select what they need and want to share with others. The main idea behind open educational resources (OER) is providing freely accessible and openly licensed documents, which fits well with the online learning system using SNS. However, the gap between higher education and social network media in relation to shared activities and OER use remains a challenge. The main reason for this is that teachers lack knowledge of mutual assistance and the skills to use OER. Teachers are dissatisfied with having to use others' resources, which indicates that the problem lies in teachers' psychological conflicts and technical capabilities. Our learning platform, Creative Higher Education with Learning Objects (CHiLO), is based on e-textbooks and aims to develop a flexible learning environment. The CHiLO e-textbooks were developed with a completely new design that considered large-scale online courses, such as open online courses. The core component of CHiLO is the CHiLO Book, which is created in EPUB3 format and has media-rich contents, including graphics, animations, audios and embedded videos. Our set of experimental outcomes shows that CHiLO, which includes not only Web services but also e-textbooks, is easy for teachers to handle.

scholarly journals An Interoperability Framework of Open Educational Resources and Massive Open Online Courses for Sustainable e-Learning Platform

2016 ◽  
Vol E99.D (8) ◽  
pp. 2140-2150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sila CHUNWIJITRA ◽  
Chanchai JUNLOUCHAI ◽  
Sitdhibong LAOKOK ◽  
Pornchai TUMMARATTANANONT ◽  
Kamthorn KRAIRAKSA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
E Learning

scholarly journals a-REAEDUCA: Revista de Educação para o Século XXI: Pensar, Desenvolver e Criar um REA

EAD em FOCO ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélder Ferreira Pereira ◽  
Ana Maria Nobre ◽  
Rui Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
The Social ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Education Journal ◽  
Educational Paradigm

O presente artigo relata a concepção de uma revista online de Educação para o Século XXI: REAeduca, sustentada na filosofia dos Recursos Educacionais Abertos. A sua origem encontra-se no desenvolvimento de uma atividade da unidade curricular Materiais e Recursos para E-Learning, do mestrado em Pedagogia do E-Learning da Universidade Aberta em Portugal. A metodologia seguiu a seleção do tema, o planejamento da revista e a revisão de literatura sobre a temática em foco para atingir-se uma revista cientificamente fundamentada e a criação efetiva da revista online. Composta por abordagens temáticas variadas e concebida em uma página web, apresenta outras referências para a temática em estudo. O efeito do projeto foi extremamente satisfatório, quer pelos testemunhos recolhidos na página da revista, quer pelas partilhas nas redes sociais nas quais a revista foi compartilhada. Os resultados foram triangulados e evidenciam o movimento de recursos educacionais abertos como pilar de uma mudança do paradigma educativo, que integra tecnologia e metodologia, rumo a melhorias tanto para a prática docente quanto para o estudante. Com o desenvolvimento da revista, adaptações foram necessárias, como a evolução do nome para a-REAeduca, com o prefixo alusivo à abertura da informação e do conhecimento na sociedade em rede em que vivemos, e o seu alargamento em três domínios: acadêmico, organizacional e didático-pedagógico, entre outras conquistas. Palavras-chave: Recursos educacionais abertos, Educação online, Educação aberta, Revista de Educação, Sociedade em rede, Projetos educativos.  a-REAEDUCA - Journal of Education for the 21st Century: think, develop and create an OER AbstractThis article focuses on the design of an online journal of Education for the 21st Century - REAeduca, supported by open educational resources philosophy. Its origin lies in the development of an activity of the course unit Materiais e Recursos para E-Learning, of the Master in E-Learning Pedagogy by the Universidade Aberta, Portugal. The methodology followed the theme selection, the journals planning and a content analysis on the subject in focus, to achieve a scientifically based magazine, and the effective creation of the online journal. Consisting of various thematic approaches and designed in a web page with other references to the topic under study. The effect of the project was extremely satisfactory, either by the evidence gathered in the journal page, or by shares in the social networks in which the journal was shared. The results show that the movement of Open Educational Resources as a pillar of the change of the educational paradigm that integrates technology and methodology towards improvements both for teaching and for the student. With the development of the journal adaptations were necessary, among which the evolution of the journal's name to a-REAeduca, with allusive prefix of an open information and knowledge in the network society we live in, and its extension in three areas: academic, organizational and didactic-pedagogic, and other achievements presented in this article. Keywords: Open Educational Resources, Online Education, Open Education, Education Journal, Network Society, Educational projects.

MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOCS) WITH OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR TOXICOLOGY LEARNING - DRUGS AND POLLUTANTS AS XENOBIOTICS

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 1833-1842
Author(s):  
Camelia Draghici ◽  
Ileana Manciulea ◽  
Anca Vasilescu ◽  
Stefano Girotti ◽  
Luca Ferrari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online

Supporting access to open education resources and massive open online courses for high school students of New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-253
Author(s):  
Sittara Hakim
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
School Students

Open education promotes an absolute openness in the dissemination of education, eliminating barriers including, but not limited to, cost and access to free and relevant resources. For open education, digital content has provided a means of not just sharing resources, but for promoting an interactive and collaborative culture of pooled Open Educational Resources to help others have the freedom of learning and educating themselves as per their necessity and yearning. Open Educational Resources in higher education have quickly gained a reputation, expanded and evolved with Massive Open Online Courses. In this paper, the significance, approach and implications of open education are extended to secondary education. Recommendations are reported for the development of High School Open Educational Resources in New Zealand, including the establishment of a High School Object Repository.

scholarly journals Share knowledge, participate in open education and create oer

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Nobre
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Pedagogical Design ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Open Educational Practices

This article focus on the presentation of a curricular unit of an online master's course and its innovative pedagogical design: share, participate in Open Education and its integration of Open Educational Resources towards an opening movement for knowledge democratization. Thus, are analyzed pedagogical strategies and their impact in students learning process to determine the importance of this movement for an effective and successful learning process. Based on the perspectives of teachers and students(Portuguese, Brazilian and Africans), in order to understand the dynamics of using and sharing online resources in their pedagogical practices, we signal the need to develop innovative open educational practices from the point of view of (co) authorship for the integration of Open Educational Resources in online education and we highlight the students' products resulting from this process and reveal the achievements that this philosophy can reach.

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