An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Discover the world of Open Educational Resources (OER) in this free course. Explore initiatives like MIT’s open courseware and Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative. Learn how different OER initiatives design and present content for diverse audiences. Gain insights into applying technology for global learners in education, training, and professional development. Understand the advantages of OER and how they benefit learners in various contexts. Join now to find, discuss, and redesign OER material tailored to your audience’s needs.
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.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Understand and have a better knowledge of some of the choices that practitioners make about ways of applying technologies for a variety of learners across the globe in education, training or professional development
Understand and have a better knowledge of the potential and actual advantages of open educational resources, and how these might benefit learners in a wide range of contexts.
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