This week the OECD published an interesting report about Open Educational Resources in educational policy and practice. The authors Dominic Orr, Michele Rimini and Dirk van Damme used the expertise of the Open Education field.
Education is the key to… more »
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Today, US Senators Durbin and Franken introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act for consideration by the US Senate. This act specifically supports the use of OER and open textbooks. From the press release:
Textbook costs are one of the most over… more »
Kom ook naar de netwerkdag van de special interest group Open Education en ontmoet collega’s die actief zijn op het terrein van open educational resources, open education en MOOC's. Tijdens de netwerkdag is er volop gelegenheid om ervaringen uit te… more »
This fall SURF Academy is organising a masterclass Open Educational Resources (OER). During the three-day masterclass you will get to know everything about Open Education, OER, MOOCs and more. The masterclass is for teachers and staff of higher educati… more »
Ik merk dat een heel aantal termen door elkaar worden gebruikt, zoals OER, OpenCourseWare, Open Education, Online Education. In deze blog probeer ik hier wat duidelijkheid in te scheppen en ook de verschillen aan te geven.
Open Educational Resources (O… more »
The Dutch Special Interest Group Open Educational Resources has written a trend report about Open Educational Resources. The original report was written in Dutch, but is now translate to English.
The authors of the report are:
Martijn Arnoldus – Cre… more »
Yesterday I organised the European Open Education Week Event in Delft. We had an interesting line-up of speakers: Dutch State Secretary for Education Halbe Zijlstra, President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium Anka Mulder, UNESCO Chair for OER Fred… more »
Aan het begin van de Open Education Week is het Trendrapport Open Education Resources (OER) gepubliceerd. Dit rapport is geschreven door de Special Interest Group Open Educational Resouces (SIG OER).
In dit rapport wordt een goed overzicht gegeven van… more »
Last night I was invited by the European Internet Foundation to speak at a Diner Debat about OpenData. There were 3 speakers:
Marcus Dapp, IT strategist for the city government of Munich and board member OKF Germany at Open Knowledge Foundation.
Ric… more »
Andreia Inamoratodos Santos has written an interesting report about Open Educational Resources (OER) in Brazil. The government has set ambitious goals for education in Brazil and OER can certainly help to reach those goals.
Andreia states that the conc… more »