Open Education Week Raises OER Awareness in Higher Education

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-14

Summary:

"As Open Education Week comes to a close, it's time to reflect on how far open educational resources (OER) have come and what challenges lie ahead. Though it's been 15 years since MIT blazed the trail for OER by making its course material freely available online through MIT OpenCourseWare, many faculty members still don't know about it. That's the point of Open Education Week: to raise awareness of open education, what people are doing with it and how it can increase teaching and learning, said Mary Lou Forward, executive director of The Open Education Consortium ..."

Link:

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/higher-ed/Open-Education-Week-Raises-OER-Awareness-in-Higher-Education.html

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.oe_week oa.oer oa.textbooks oa.education oa.books

Date tagged:

03/14/2016, 14:42

Date published:

03/14/2016, 10:42