Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 10, 2020
I posted the first installment yesterday, explaining how a fundamental failure to understand copyright makes the definition of OER in the new UNESCO recommendation nonsensical. In this second installment, I want to describe how it appears that many in the OER community have taken their eye off the ball. Source: [link].
Iterating Toward Openness
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
To hear some OER advocates describe it today in 2024, the same format that was being used in the late 2000s – traditional-looking textbooks published under open licenses – is the state of the art when it comes to open educational resources. OER have also been used as part of personalized, interactive courseware systems, too.
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Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 21, 2017
As I’ve written about at some length before, whether you’re talking about open content, open educational resources, open access (to research), open data, open knowledge, open source, or open standards, in all of these contexts “open” means: Free access to the content, resource, journal article, data, knowledge artifact, software, or standard, and.
Iterating Toward Openness
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
We have a similar problem in the open educational resources (OER) space. Many people are in the habit of referring to OER as a commons. OER are not like the shared resources at the center of traditional commons. If either of these conditions come to pass, everyone loses access to the shared resources and we all lose the game.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Rebekkah was named a Library Journal (LJ) Mover & Shaker in 2010 and writes the LJ Sustainability column. He has collaborated with faculty and students to broaden access to their research and scholarship so that people around the world can benefit from the University of Kentucky community's scholarly outputs.
Wired Campus
OCTOBER 28, 2015
“The OER movement is still young.” That number has doubled since 2011 and more than tripled since 2010. Green said: IT leaders do believe that open educational resources will become an important source of course content in the next five years — but that reflects a prediction, not the current state of the market, he said.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Rebekkah was named a Library Journal (LJ) Mover & Shaker in 2010 and writes the LJ Sustainability column. He has collaborated with faculty and students to broaden access to their research and scholarship so that people around the world can benefit from the University of Kentucky community's scholarly outputs.
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