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Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace
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Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace
Edited by Susan D'Antoni and Catriona Savage
Education systems today face two major challenges: expanding the reach of education and improving its quality. Traditional solutions will not suffice, especially in the context of today's knowledge-intensive societies.
The goal of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement is to equalize access to knowledge worldwide through openly and freely available online high quality content.
UNESCO has contributed to building awareness about this movement by facilitating an extended conversation in cyberspace. Over a two-year period, a large and diverse international community discussed the concept and potential of OER in a series of online forums.
The background papers and reports are now available in print. Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace provides an overview of the first steps of this exciting new development: it captures the conversations between leaders of some of the first OER projects, and documents early debates on the issues that continue to challenge the movement. The publication will provide food for thought for all those intrigued by OER – its promise and its progress.
Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace is UNESCO's first openly licensed publication - an indication of the commitment of the Organization to the sharing of knowledge and the free flow of ideas.
Download the publication in sections:
- Acknowledgements, Table of contents, List of abbreviations, List of institutions mentioned in the text, Contributing authors (PDF 316KB)
- Foreword (PDF 242KB)
- Nicholas Burnett
- Introduction (PDF 317KB)
- Susan D'Antoni
- Sally Johnstone, Anne Margulies, Richard Baraniuk, Candace Thille, David Wiley, Mohammed-Nabil Sabry, Peter Bateman, Pedro Aranzadi, Derrick Tate, Paul Albright
- Section 2. Ongoing discussion (PDF 651KB)
- Kim Tucker, Peter Bateman, Boris Vukovic, Claude Martin
- Jan Hylén, Alexa Joyce
- Section 4. Priorities for action (PDF 440KB)
- Susan D'Antoni
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