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Scholarly articles, filled with indubitable knowledge and analysis, only exist for the general public behind pricey paywalls. So one lecturer is advocating for them to be free of charge.
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"This paper explores nine areas of research on OER from policy to development to its relative effectiveness and whether it stimulates innovation. Although existing research is considered, greater attention is given to the possibilities for new research in these areas."
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January 15, 2014 2:08 AM
A research agenda for OER from Marshall Smith, the visionary thinker behind the OER program of the Hewlett Foundation. He distinguishes four areas where research is most needed: - Policy: "examine the positive and negative factors in the political environment that influence whether or not governments at various levels will create progressive OER policy." and "examine the characteristics and effectiveness of the variety of educational policies that constrain or enable the use of OER that currently exist in different countries and local jurisdictions" - Access and Use: "Adding Value by Increasing Access and Going to Scale" - Effectiveness: "How does OER improve efficiency and learning?" - Innovation—Investigations into New Ideas and Positive Disruption. Can serve as a starting point to define a national research agenda for the Netherlands, thereby contributing to a global knowledge base on OER.
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For-profit academic publisher Elsevier is ramping up efforts to stop academics from sharing their research freely online.
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Measuring use and creation of open educational resources in higher education (More #oer research from IRRODL > Measuring use and creation of open educational resources in higher education http://t.co/TJHtGHd11p)...
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The UK government's Business, Innovation and Skills Committee issued a report this week that offers a harsh rebuke to the RCUK's proposed plans to drive the adoption of Open Access (OA) publishing ...
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The material that you can access through this website is intended to help you prepare yourself for study on a research degree at a UK university.
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Even though the concept of the Massive Open Online Course has become wildly popular during the last year, empirical research on these initiatives is largely absent. On the one hand, this is not surprising.
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As noted in an earlier post, I have submitted some proposals for conference presentations on researching the effectiveness of connectivist MOOCs, or cMOOCs (see another one of my earlier posts for what a cMOOC is). I am using this post (and one or two later ones) to try to work through how one might go about doing so, and the problems I’ve considered only in a somewhat general way previously. I need to think things through by writing, so why not do that in the open?
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This week we launched the Open Badge Network (OBN) portal. Open Badge Network is an Erasmus + project and strategic partnership which brings together organisations from across Europe to support the development of an Open Badge ecosystem, promoting the use of Open Badges to recognise non-formal and informal learning. Our mission is to provide a trusted…
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Welcome to the eighth annual Open Access Week! We're joining an international community—researchers and students, doctors and patients, librarians and activists—to celebrate free and open access to knowledge. This is also a time to discuss the barriers and costs of keeping research and information locked up with restrictive licenses and publisher paywalls.
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By Adding a Strong Research Element, MOOCs can Deliver Greater Learning Value to the Students who Participate in Them. Anyone who follows education technology
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Times Higher Education Finch Group defends open-access evidence base Times Higher Education The report's statement that a “clear policy direction” should be set in support of journal-provided gold open access was taken up by Research Councils UK,...
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ELP is pleased to announced the publication of a new SPEC Kit survey. This kit surveys ARL member libraries on their activities related to access, management, and archiving of research data at their institutions. In addition, the kit explores the organization of research data management services (including a few questions on broader data support services), how they are staffed and funded, and what services they offer and to whom, among other questions.
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We help institutions adopt an evidence-based approach to using open educational resources to eliminate textbook costs and improve student success.
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Open Access To Research: An Ideal Complicated By Reality
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OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance on the use, development, and licensing of free and open source software.
If you want to find out more about open source software, we're the people to ask
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This paper proposes variations around the themes of Peer Observation of Teaching and Professional Conversations as tools to investigate the use and reuse of OER by teachers. It reports on two qualitative studies on the use and reuse of OER by language teachers at the Open University UK. Teachers use LORO (loro.open.ac.uk), an open repository of OER for language teaching, to select their teaching resources.
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April 15, 2013 1:46 PM
la usabilidad es uno de los elementos más importantes a la hora de considerar los rea 
PaigeCuffe's curator insight,
April 16, 2013 6:51 AM
In the discussion around how to increase the use of OER, this is one to throw into the pot.
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RT @elearningeuropa: Linked Data for Open and Distance Learning #OpenEd #eLearning #OER http://t.co/5RuQuPiBFp Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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