Category Archives: Open educational resources

Open Ed Conference: Towards an aggregated profile of the Global OER and OCW audience

Posted on October 25, 2011 by geoffcain

Speakers Mary Lou Forward, Meena Hwang and Una Daly Developing a profile of our global audience through aggregated surveys of OER and OCW users worldwide. What are the demographics of those looking of open education resources and open courses? based … Continue reading →

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OER Session 4 – Funding OER: Sustainability

Posted on October 20, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via CrunchBaseJoin us for a webinar on October 31 hosted by SoftChalk. Space is limited.Reserve your Webinar seat now at:https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/962111696 How do OER projects and programs get started? How are they maintained? Where are funding resources? Can OER projects … Continue reading →

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3 Reasons Why OERs are Better Than “Free”

Posted on August 10, 2011 by geoffcain

I see a lot of emails, Tweets, and blog postings that include free materials from both corporations and individuals included in lists of “open education resources” or OERs. I always have to let people know that I am not anti-corporate: … Continue reading →

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OERs: Creating Assignments with Public Domain Documents

Posted on July 29, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaWhile working on the Kaleidoscope Project (assisting faculty at eight colleges develop courses that implement open education resources or open textbooks), I have run into interesting instructional design challenges with creating assignments using materials that were written a … Continue reading →

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Hubris 2.0: OERs, Publishers, and Federal Money

Posted on May 27, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaIn “Publishers Criticize Federal Investment in Open Education Resources” a nice little article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed this week, Blackboard lets us know that the sky is falling because of government funding of open education resources … Continue reading →

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OERs and Money: The revolution will happen without you.

Posted on April 20, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via Wikipedia“On the one hand, information wants to be expensive because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free because the cost of getting … Continue reading →

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OER: The Myth of Commercial Textbook Reliability

Posted on March 19, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaAn “OER” is an open education resource and the most common example is an open textbook. An open textbook is a book, most often electronic, that is licensed in a way that allows re-use, repurposing, editing, and republishing. … Continue reading →

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OER Africa: Course Development Handbook

Posted on March 2, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaI am currently reading Santosh Panda’s textbook Handbook on In-House Style for Course Development.  This would be recommended reading for new course developers or distance education admins who are new to the field or need to develop a … Continue reading →

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OER University: history in the making

Posted on February 22, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via Wikipedia I am in an exciting meeting today on the OER university. There were a few dozen participating in New Zealand and 47 virtual participants. If you are not familiar with this concept OERs are “open education resources.” … Continue reading →

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Towards an OER University: Free learning for all students worldwide

Posted on February 16, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via Wikipedia This is from Cable Green’s blog: Universities in Australia, Canada and New Zealand are hoping to achieve “a quantum shift” in higher education access by launching an “OER university”. (article) Concept is: http://wikieducator.org/OER_University There is an open meeting (all are … Continue reading →

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