Documentation:Open Education/Resources
Resources
Background
- Special issue of EDUCAUSE Review (Volume 45, Number 4, July/August 2010) on The Open... with features on higher education, instruction, technology and students.
- Mackey, T. P. (2011). Transparency as a catalyst for interaction and participation in open learning environments. First Monday, 16(10).
- The Open Education Handbook, a guidebook to many aspects of open education that is collaboratively written and continuously updated because it is openly licensed and easily edited.
- Opening Up Education from MIT Press. Also available as a free PDF download.
- UNESCO A Basic Guide to OER (2011) - explains what Open Educational Resources are and the benefits to their creation and use.
- UNESCO Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education (2011) - a document that outlines some of the main issues involved in implementing OER in higher education, to help encourage such implementation.
How-to guides
- The JISC OER InfoKit - "aims to both inform and explain OERs and the issues surrounding them for managers, academics and those in learning support."
- OER Handbook - hosted by WikiEducator.
- Towards Open Education - An online community for BC open educators.