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by Oct 16, 2009 News, Research
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released, last September, a draft version of an Open Educational Resources (OER) Toolkit in order to help individual academics and decision-makers in higher education institutions “who are interested in finding and using OER in the courses they teach, or who wish to publish OER that they have developed”.
The two first chapters of this draft give us a background to OER and talk about the emergence of Open Education. The third chapter explores Copyright and Creative Commons licenses. Fourth and fifth chapters help us finding, creating and sharing Open Educational Resources. The sixth chapter is dedicated to establishing institutional OER projects, from making the case, to strategies to follow, monitoring, evaluating and measuring the success of the project. The chapter ends with considerations about funding and some examples. The last chapter is more practical and lists all the things one need to consider when setting up an OER project.
As an indication of the commitment to the sharing of knowledge and the free flow of ideas, UNESCO published the book, edited by Susan D’Antoni and Catriona Savage, “Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace“, the UNESCO’s first openly publication.
The pdfs in the website are licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence. If you prefer to read on paper, you can buy the book at its website.
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