by Sir John Daniel, Univesity World News
Open educational resources (OER) have the potential to increase access to education while cutting costs and improving quality. They are, therefore, an important element of the Commonwealth of Learning’s mission of ‘Learning for Development’. International guidelines for OER in higher education have been drafted, and comments are being invited. OER are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open licence that permits their free use and, in some instances, re-purposing by others. They can include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, research articles, videos, tests, software and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge. OER is not synonymous with online learning or e-learning. Rather, many OER – while shareable in a digital format – are also printable.
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