Technology Enhanced Learning
Open educational practises, open resources and MOOC’s
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Open educational practises (OEP) generally include the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and are usually free to access, open licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, assessment and research. The exact definition varies, but the concept of opening out education is increasingly popular with the UK government investing £15m on open resource projects since 2009 (Jisc, 2013). One of these projects is Jorum, a resource based at Manchester University allowing people to freely share learning and teaching resources. An example at Salford is USIR our open paper repository, I use this to share my papers with the world and look for other useful papers. (more…)