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The Open University

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

The Open University via OpenLearn

Overview

In this free course, An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER), you will look at some institutional OER initiatives. These will include MIT's open courseware, Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative and The Open University's OpenLearn. You will get a flavour of how different OER initiatives design and present the content for their audiences.This OpenLearn course will also give you the opportunity to find, discuss and redesign some OER material. You can choose your audience for the material and redesign it to fit their needs.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • 1 Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • 2 An introduction to OER
  • 2 An introduction to OER
  • 3 Exploring OER
  • 3 Exploring OER
  • 4 Redesigning some OER
  • 4 Redesigning some OER
  • 5 An interactive quiz question about OER
  • 5 An interactive quiz question about OER
  • 6 Ideas for further reading and exploration
  • 6 Ideas for further reading and exploration
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements

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