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Outline of open educational resources

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This outline of open educational resources provides a way of navigating concepts and topics in relation to the open educational resources (OER) movement.

Contents

Concepts of open

  • Gratis vs. libre
  • Free cultural work and Free content
  • Open content
  • Openness
  • Digital freedom
  • Libre knowledge
  • Open knowledge

    • Relationship to other educational concepts

  • Open education
  • Adult Education
  • Self-directed Learning
  • Prior Learning Assessment (PLA/PLAR)
  • Distance Education
  • Online Education

    • Goals and aims

  • The Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2007)
  • UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration
  • 2009 Dakar Declaration on Open Educational Resources
  • Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

    • How to design learning using OER

  • Personal Growth
  • Professional Development
  • Formal Instructional Design

    • Access and delivery

  • Open access
  • OpenCourseWare
  • Distance learning
  • Virtual learning environment
  • Open format

    • Learning

  • Open educational resources (OER)
  • Recursos educativos abiertos (OER in Spanish)
  • OER Commons
  • Connexions
  • Open textbooks
  • Open content
  • MIT OpenCourseWare
  • Open access journals
  • Learning objects
  • Open catalog

    • Licensing

  • Creative Commons license
  • Open Content License
  • GNU Free Documentation License
  • Copyleft

    • Methods/Philosophy

  • Open learning
  • Open educational practices
  • Connectivism
  • Heutagogy
  • Open supported learning
  • Flexible learning
  • E-learning theory

    • Types of learning experiences

  • MOOCs
  • Personal learning environments
  • Networked learning
  • Blended learning
  • Virtual learning environment

    • Programs and initiatives

  • Athabasca University in Canada
  • Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN)[1]
  • OER initiatives
  • Open university
  • OER Foundation
  • OER Knowledge Cloud
  • OER Universitas
  • OER Africa
  • Khan Academy
  • Open University in the United Kingdom
  • The Saylor Foundation
  • Wikibooks
  • Wikiversity
  • WikiEducator
  • Open.Michigan
  • Commonwealth of Learning
  • Open Learning for Development

    • Governance, policies and standards

  • Open educational resources policy
  • Open-door academic policy
  • United Kingdom Accreditation Service
  • 2011 Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO Guidelines on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education
  • 2011 Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources

    • References

    Outline of open educational resources Wikipedia
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