Implementing the Paris OER Declaration: launch of project
Published 26.04.13Bahrain, Indonesia, Kenya, and Oman are working with UNESCO to implement the Paris OER Declaration. The first meeting of a project to achieve this aim was held recently at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
Webinar on the OER university model
Published 26.03.12The OER university is a collaborative project to provide free learning to all students worldwide using freely available learning materials, and which will enable credible qualifications to be gained from recognized education institutions. James C Taylor from ICDE member institution, the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, presents a video introduction to the concept.
Why OER Matters video competition
Published 26.03.12Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education and the Open Society Institute have launched a video competition to highlight the potential of open educational resources.
UNESCO World OER Congress update
Published 07.03.12A regional policy forum in preparation for the World OER Congress was held in South Africa in February. Presentations are available online, and a draft version of the Paris Declaration has been published for comments. Registration for the Open Exhibition at the World OER Congress, to be held 20-22 June 2012, is now open.
Guidelines for OER in Higher Education institutions
Published 18.11.11UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) have recently published a set of guidelines for the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education. This important document outlines in a concise format the key issues, and provides advice on the integration of OER .
Launch of OER Asia
Published 18.11.11ICDE member institution Wawasan Open University, Malaysia, has recently launched an Open Educational Resource forum entitled OER Asia. This site has been created to cultivate an Open Educational Resource community in the Asia region, inspired by a research grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada.
Webinars on defining, using and creating OER
Published 09.08.11A series of webinars organized by the online learning platform Softchalk and which aim to highlight and explore issues related to OER and provide live demonstrations on their use are planned for 2011. A forthcoming session entitled, Finding and Using OER: The Where and the When will take place online on 17 August at 15.00 EST.
Open Education: Changing Educational Practices
Published 16.03.11The latest edition of the online journal elearning papers is dedicated to open education. Edited by Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and Director of the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning, and Tapio Koskinen of Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland, it contains papers demonstrating trends towards greater cultures and practice of openness taking place throughout Europe and beyond.
UNESCO - call for participation
Published 24.01.11UNESCO invites universities in the Mediterranean region to participate in the Open Digital Space for the Mediterranean (e-Omed) project.
UNESCO-COL OER Policy Forum presentations
Published 07.01.11Presentations are now available to download following UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning's Policy Forum, 'Taking OER beyond the OER Community', held last month at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.
Open Ed 2010 Proceedings now available
Published 15.12.10A book of Proceedings from the Open Education Conference 2010 in Barcelona, Spain, is now available to download from the Open University of Catalunya's online institutional repository.
Invitation to Policy Forum on OER at UNESCO
Published 09.11.10UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) extend an open invitation to attend a Policy Forum on Open Educational Resources (OER) next month in Paris, France, within the framework of the UNESCO-COL initiative, “Taking OER beyond the OER community: Policy and Capacity”.
UNESCO OER platform
Published 13.10.10UNESCO has announced plans to develop a new Open Educational Resources platform with the aim of providing a strategic opportunity to improve the quality of education as well as to facilitate policy dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building.
United Nations University online conference on OER
Published 18.10.10The United Nations University Vice Rectorate in Europe (UNU-ViE) invites contributions for online discussions at its third international conference, hosted in collaboration with Science Connect, on 18–24 October 2010.
COL-UNESCO Initiative on OER
Published 21.09.10UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) are organizing a series of three online discussion forums on aspects of Open Educational Resources. This is part of a joint COL-UNESCO initiative entitled, 'Taking OER beyond the OER Community: Policy and Capacity'. A summary of the first forum has now been published.
News from the OER Community
Published 30.09.10Susan d'Antoni, formally with UNESCO, and the driving force behind the OER Community, provides an update on the activities of this important initiative as it moves to a new home at Athabasca University.
MetaOER Project: creating an OER repository
Published 18.08.10ICDE member institution Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is hosting Cátedra UNESCO's Open Repository as part of a project currently underway to create a centralized and accessible repository for resources about OER.
OER on Facebook
Published 06.07.10
UNESCO and COL promote wider use of OERs
Published 24.06.10Taking OERs beyond the OER Community: Policy and Capacity is an initiative designed to increase the understanding of OERs by educational decision makers within governments and institutions, and to encourage the incorporation of the concept of OERs into their policies and strategies.
Interview on OER
Published 24.08.09Interview with Susan D’Antoni, IIEP
The Promise of OER
Published 24.08.09An article by Marshall Smith and C. Casserly, Hewlett Foundation
Joining the dots: Introducing the iCommons iCurriculum
Published 24.08.09Johannesburg, South Africa – iCommons, an organization created to help coordinate and support global efforts to share educational content on the Internet, is launching an online project to try to learn what makes such efforts succeed.
Open Educational Practices and Resources. OLCOS Roadmap 2012
Published 24.08.09A new project, partly funded by the EC, with a report (January 2007) on OER
Open Educational Resources - The Way Forward
Published 24.08.09DELIBERATIONS OF AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF INTEREST
by SUSAN D’ANTONI
The Berlin Declaration
Published 24.08.09Efforts to ensure open access to scientific publications are gaining support. The latest breakthrough is that all the universities in the Netherlands have now signed the Berlin Declaration.