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.
- Opening Up Education from MIT Press. Also available as a free PDF download.
- UNESCO Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education - 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.