scholarly journals Open Educational Resources: An Annotated Bibliography for Librarians

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Bober
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Disadvantaged Populations

Open educational resources (OER), now in their 15th year of existence, consists of, in principle, fully open educational content, available for free to all and are adaptable to serve the needs of the user. They were created as a response to the high cost of textbooks and as a means of leveling the playing field in terms of ensuring equal access to education for disadvantaged populations. The selected resources below attest to the fact that a concerted effort is well underway to address and overcome these challenges. Institutions are increasingly investing in OER as research has demonstrated that they have a positive role to play in student learning. Libraries, already champions of copyright and open access initiatives, have the expertise to advocate for and collaborate on efforts to further the growth and impact of open educational resources both within their institutions and beyond.           

ACCESS TO EDUCATION WITH ONLINE LEARNING AND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: CAN THEY CLOSE THE GAP?

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Geith ◽  
Karen Vignare
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Education Gap ◽  
The Right ◽  
Compare And Contrast

One of the key concepts in the right to education is access: access to the means to fully develop as human beings as well as access to the means to gain skills, knowledge and credentials. This is an important perspective through which to examine the solutions to access enabled by Open Educational Resources (OER) and online learning. The authors compare and contrast OER and online learning and their potential for addressing human rights “to” and “in” education. The authors examine OER and online learning growth and financial sustainability and discuss potential scenarios to address the global education gap.

Breaching the Paywall

2021 ◽  
pp. 222-241
Author(s):  
Samantha Tackett ◽  
Kelly M. Torres ◽  
Meagan C. Arrastia ◽  
S. Wade Bradt
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Instructional Media ◽  
Recent Developments

This chapter informs readers of recent developments with open educational resources (OERs) as well as the various advantages and challenges to the use of open access materials and repositories. This chapter explores examples of OER usage for instruction and research and discusses digital and instructional media relevant to open pedagogy and the technology-enabled democratization of learning. Finally, the chapter concludes with suggestions for advocacy of greater open access to benefit national and international dissemination of knowledge and the increase of societal use.

scholarly journals Open access repositories on open educational resources

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chew Bee Leng ◽  
Kamsiah Mohd Ali ◽  
Ch’ng Eng Hoo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Platform ◽  
Harvesting Method

Purpose Triggered by the advancement of information and communications technology, open access repositories (a variant of digital libraries) is one of the important changes impacting library services. In the context of openness to a wider community to access free resources, Wawasan Open University Library initiated a research project to build open access repositories on open educational resources. Open educational resources (OER) is an area of a multifaceted open movement in education. The purpose of this paper is to show how two web portal repositories on OER materials were developed adopting a Japanese open source software, called WEKO. Design/methodology/approach The design approach is based on a pull to push strategy whereby metadata of scholarly open access materials kept within the institution and network communities’ digital databases were harvested using the Open Archives Initiatives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting method into another open knowledge platform for discovery by other users. Findings Positive results emanating from the university open access repositories development showed how it strengthen the role of the librarian as manager of institutional assets and successfully making the content freely available from this open knowledge platform for reuse in learning and teaching. Research limitations/implications Developing further programmes to encourage, influence faculty members and prospective stakeholders to use and contribute content to the valuable repositories is indeed a challenging task. Originality/value This paper provides insight for academic libraries on how open access repositories development and metadata analysis can enhance new professional challenges for information professionals in the field of data management, data quality and intricacies of supporting data repositories and build new open models of collaboration across institutions and libraries. This paper also describes future collaboration work with institutions in sharing their open access resources.

scholarly journals New Ways of Mediating Learning: Investigating the implications of adopting open educational resources for tertiary education at an institution in the United Kingdom as compared to one in South Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Wilson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open University ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Entry Requirements

Access to education is not freely available to all. Open Educational Resources (OERs) have the potential to change the playing field in terms of an individual’s right to education. The Open University in the United Kingdom was founded almost forty years ago on the principle of ‘open’ access with no entry requirements necessary. The University develops innovative high quality multiple media distance-learning courses. In a new venture called OpenLearn, The Open University is making its course materials freely available worldwide on the Web as OERs ( see http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn). How might other institutions make use of these distance-learning materials? The paper starts by discussing the different contexts wherein two institutions operate and the inequalities that exist between them. One institution is a university based in South Africa and the other is a college located in the United Kingdom. Both institutions, however, deliver distance-learning courses. The second part of the paper discusses preliminary findings when OERs are considered for tertiary education at these two institutions. The findings emphasise some of the opportunities and challenges that exist if these two institutions adopt OERs.

scholarly journals Editorial: Wie gestalten wir die Zukunft mit Open Access und Open Educational Resources?

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ebner ◽  
Sandra Schön ◽  
Lambert Heller ◽  
Rudolf Mumenthaler
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources

scholarly journals Offen und vernetzt für alle

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Predatory Publishing

Das Buch versammelt die Beiträge der ersten Open-Access-Roadshow Schleswig-Holstein, die vom 11. bis 14. November 2019 in Kiel, Flensburg und Lübeck stattgefunden hat. Auf der interdisziplinären Veranstaltung wurden zentrale Themen rund um Open Access und Open Science beleuchtet, angefangen bei den politischen Rahmenbedingungen und notwendigen Weichenstellungen im universitären Publikationsbetrieb über Erfolge und Herausforderungen bei der Open-Access-Transformation in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg und Brandenburg bis hin zu digitalen Angeboten im Bereich der Lehre und Bildung, die Open Educational Resources (OER). Was Open Access für Verlage bedeutet, wird ebenso berücksichtigt wie die Themen Predatory Publishing, DEAL, Plan S und vieles mehr. Die Beiträge geben einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand von Open Access und zeigen auf, wie ein künftiger nachhaltiger Kulturwandel hin zu mehr Offenheit in Wissenschaft und Forschung gelingen könnte.

scholarly journals Do open educational resources improve student learning? Implications of the access hypothesis

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. e0212508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip J. Grimaldi ◽  
Debshila Basu Mallick ◽  
Andrew E. Waters ◽  
Richard G. Baraniuk
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Improve Student Learning

Exploring the Literature on Utilization of Open Educational Resources in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-39
Author(s):  
K. N. Igwe
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Skills Acquisition ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Universe ◽  
And Training

This chapter looks at open educational resources (OER), the evolution and conceptualization, the empirical literature so far on utilization of OER in Nigeria, potential determinants of OER utilization, and the future pathways for OER as essential learning resources for functional education and training in the 21st century. The open access movement calls upon researchers and academics to provide open access to their research works by either publishing their findings in open access journals that provide open access to their contents online or by depositing their work into repositories that make their content freely available over the internet. Open educational resources (OER) are now at the forefront of education, knowledge, and skills acquisition across the universe. This implies that OER can be used in all learning environments for addressing learning needs of different classes of individuals in the society. There should be priority attention in developing ICT infrastructures at all levels of education in Nigeria, which is expected to facilitate unhindered exploitation of all kinds of existing OER across the universe.

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