Resources and information
26 April 2013
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Publication | Book
Martin Weller, Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University (UK), explores how new technologies are affecting the scholarly practice.
International
26 April 2013
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Organization | Networks
The Portal of Hungarian Educators aims to collect, organise and give access to online resources relevant and useful for teaching, educational innovation and research.
Hungary
25 April 2013
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Publication | Study
The paper “If we open it will they come? Towards a new OER Logic Model” presents the result of a multilingual empirical survey on the ‘micro level factors’ of using, creating sharing and reusing open educational resources (OER).
International
25 April 2013
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Organization | Research Institutes
Wiki for Higher Education (wiki4HE) is a research project being carried out by Spanish researchers aiming to analyse the use of Internet open content for university teaching and explore and propose new ways for using these resources in learning processes.
International
23 April 2013
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Publication | Other
Learning Object Repositories (LORs) addressing content management and preservation have the positive collaterals of institutional positioning and dissemination, but their main benefit is the empowerment of interest-centred learning communities: the LOR provides the learner interaction with the LOs, but also with other learners and teachers.
International
23 April 2013
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Publication | Other
Web 2.0 services such as social bookmarking allow users to manage and share the links they find interesting, adding their own tags for describing them. This is especially interesting in the field of open educational resources.
International
23 April 2013
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Publication | Official Document
The European Network of Education Councils (EUNEC) has issued a statement as a reaction to the European Commission’s recent Communication “Rethinking education: Investing in skills for better socio-economic outcomes.”
Pan European
22 April 2013
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Publication | Blog
Observing the 1980s offers a unique and inspiring insight into the lives and opinions of British people from all social classes and regions during the 1980s decade. A lot of the material comprises the personal memories of people who lived through the Thatcher era, making this resource seem all the more resonant now.
International
22 April 2013
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Publication | Study
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) has published a white paper analysing the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other forms of online education.
International
22 April 2013
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Resources | Generic Resources
The Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) is a partner and sponsor of the OpenCourseWare (OCW) international consortium since 2009.
Spain