Having read the Yuan, Macneill and Kraan article titled “Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education” this morning I identified the following interesting extracts. Initially I considered OER resources to only include lecture material such as powerpoint
The beauty of “Some Rights Reserved”: Introducing Creative Commons to librarians, faculty, and students
I stumbled upon this article and thought it rather poignant following a recent meeting. Likely one of the greatest challenges we will face throughout this project is the issue of licensing. This article does a nice job of laying down
Hacking Education
Top of the delicious links this morning was an article summarizing a recent conference on “Hacking Education” in the US. Most of those in attendance have been actively involved with teaching with technology for the better part of their careers.
Welcome to the World of OER!
A New Culture of Openness The University of Cape Town has embarked on the journey of creating and nurturing a new culture of openness. What ever do we mean by openness? In the realm of higher learning we have seen