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EADTU Conference 2007, Lisbon
| What | Presentation OER Commons open education |
|---|---|
| When |
2007-11-08 11:30
to 2007-11-09 20:30 |
| Where | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Attendees | Cynthia JImes |
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Open Educational Resources: An Integrated Process of Continuous Resource Transformation
Presenter: Cynthia Jimes
Abstract
The session will describe a teaching and learning network that facilitates collaboration in the creation and adaptation of freely available open educational resources (OER). The session will discuss how the site, OER Commons, allows users to find materials more easily and also engage users through social networking activities.
A project of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, OER Commons enables users to tag, review, share portfolios and participate in collaborative forums to provide users with a dynamic environment for searching, saving, and annotating while enabling them to actively modify and improve the resources. The underlying philosophy of this work is an understanding that OER is a process of continuous resource transformation—facilitated by social networking tools—that involves users at many levels of engagement. Thus, teachers, instructors, students, and others should be able to share their classroom experiences, teaching or learning strategies and other knowledge to provide a context for others to build upon. This means that new instructors, non-domain experts (such as parents), student learners, and seasoned practitioners have access to notes and recommendations for use, related resources, reviews and quality assessments. It is a model that allows users to add context to content, transforming educational resources from isolated materials into an integrated process of resource improvement and dynamic learning.
About EADTU Conference 2007
The 20th Anniversary Conference of EADTU, organised under the Portuguese EU Presidency 2007, is focussing on the internationalisation of university courses on-line and related services.