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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. 
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Open Access is entering steadily into the Humanities and Social Sciences, and is now considered as an alternative to the traditional way of publishing monographs and scientific books. If you are considering of publishing your monograph in an open access model, there are usually two paths to choose from: One – you can publish [...]
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are free learning resources available on the Internet. OER can be openly licensed or in the public domain, and can be used or reused for free. They can exist in many formats: text (either print or digital); audio, video, multimedia or hypermedia; or various combinations of these. They can be based on a single learning point, a lesson, a series of lessons (a module), a whole course or even an entire programme of study. They can support a specific learning methodology or approach — whether that be behaviourist, constructivist, connectivist, etc. — or any combination of methodologies or approaches. Although they may differ in format, structure or approach, they share a common characteristic: their openness. The Knowledge Series is a topical, start-up guide to distance education practice and delivery.
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By Ben Loveridge (Learning Environments) Over the last few months, the MOOC’s team at Learning Environments have been busy preparing for the University of Melbourne’s Coursera debut in 2013. Much has has already been written about the impact of MOOC’s (Massive Online Open Courses) on higher education but little on the practical challenges of filming. Here I outline these aspects, primarily for staff of other institutions who may be planning to go down this path. Update: Visions Episode – Preparing for Coursera - http://youtu.be/wFPjqTUgupU
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Video accompanying the Jisc Digital media webinar "Creating Resources for MOOCs," originally given on 25 September 2013.
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Making a MOOC is easier than making people to pay interest on your MOOC and it is an important task. Go through these tips to know how to make a MOOC interesting.
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Increasingly, educators are turning to Open Educational Resources (OERs) as teaching tools. OERs are free publicly available educational resources that anyone can copy, use, adapt, and re-share. Numerous OERs exist for teachers, but ever wondered if you could create your own? Do-it-yourself OER is n
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When educators write a traditional textbook, they generally have to sign their copyright over to the publisher. When they write an open access textbook or produce some other kind of open educationa...
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Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this one-of-a-kind book demonstrates the best tools, resources, and techniques for discovering, selecting, and integrating interactive open educational resources (OERs) into the teaching and learning process. The author examines many of the best repositories and digital library websites for finding high quality materials, explaining in depth the best practices for effectively searching these repositories and the various methods for evaluating, selecting, and integrating the resources into the instructor’s curriculum and course assignments, as well as the institution’s learning management system.
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7 Innovative Strategies To Create Learning Badges: gamification, encouragement mechanics, learning badges
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What’s been involved behind the scenes to get the courses off the ground? Planning and materials preparation for the courses actually started several months ago shortly after Duke’s initial slate of courses was announced. Staff in Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology and Office of Information Technology quickly pulled together resources and processes that faculty could use to plan and create their Coursera sites.
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EdX101 is designed specifically to help you, the course author, harness the intrinsic strengths of this new vehicle for learning while walking you through the mechanics of creating your own course. By the time you have completed edX101, you will also have completed the entire process of planning, building, and running your own course. Along the way, you will have the opportunity to interact with other faculty and course staff using the edX101 discussion forum, and to share ideas and collaborate using the wiki. Unlike most edX courses, this course has no exams, grades, or fixed schedule.
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