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Peer production has also been utilized in producing collaborative open education resources (OERs). Writing Commons, an international open textbook spearheaded by Joe Moxley at the University of South Florida, has evolved from a print textbook into a crowd-sourced resource for college writers around the world. [127]
To support interoperability, OER Commons is an experimental node in the Learning Registry, a joint US Department of Education and US Department of Defense initiative to support educational content and platform interoperability. [9] The OER Commons contains custom curated resource collections, or microsites.
The UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration, otherwise known as the Paris declaration on Open Educational Resources, is a declaration urging governments to promote the use of open educational resources (OERs) and calling for publicly funded educational materials to be released in a freely reusable form.
OEP, for example, often, but not always, involve the application of OER to the teaching and learning process. [6] Open educational practices aim to take the focus beyond building further access to OER and consider how in practice, such resources support education and promote quality and innovation in teaching and learning.
Examples of published guidelines and research reports that can assist with the OER policy making process: (2011) Guidelines for open educational resources (OER) in higher education [4] (2016) Open Educational Resources: Policy, costs and transformation [6] (2019): Guidelines on the development of open educational resources policies [35]
their level of education in particular. For example, the results that overarching education reforms such as No Child Left Behind have had on Hispanic students show that improving their educational condition may not depend solely on improving schools or curricula but also on other factors such as the children’s’ socio-economic situation.
An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost.
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