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OER Case Study Project
Creating Knowledge Building and Sharing Capacity Through Case Study Development
 | A wide range of individuals and organizations are actively involved in the development of free-to-use open educational resources (OER). Partly because the field is so new, there have been few opportunities to share learnings and advances within and across projects and boundaries. Little is known, for example, about how projects are facilitating the adaptation of open content by diverse users, what structures they are
instilling to support peer production, and how they are attempting to
inspire community engagement. |
ISKME OER Case Study White Paper is available for download in PDF format.
The OER Case Study Project seeks to answer what makes OER initiatives successful, and to encourage those in the OER space to assess their practices and share their learnings so that others can benefit. Specifically, the aim of the project has been twofold: 1) to shed light on the practices and processes associated with the successes and challenges of several OER projects; and concomitantly, in the process of studying those practices and processes, 2) develop a set of tools, mechanisms and guides that OER projects can draw on in their efforts toward iteratively assessing and continuously improving their own practices, and sharing their learnings within and across project boundaries.
The Free High School Science Text Case Study is the first report from this project, presented in the OER Commons wiki.
Download this report in PDF format: ISKME FHSST Final Report
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