Tags: open educational resources

Onderwijs in de online wereld

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 »

Trend Report: Open Educational Resources 2012

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 »

Open Education Week Event in Delft a big success

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 Mulde… more »

Trendrapport Open Education Resources

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 »

EIF DinerDebat about OpenData

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 »

Open Educational Resources in Brazil

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 »

Why Open Educational Resources (OER)?

In a recent presentation of David Wiley he lists 7 arguments why you should do OER: Education is Sharing (the technical argument) Buy One, Get One (the political argument) The Paradox of Free (the financial argument, part 1) The $5 Textbook (the f… more »