OpenSpires : Opening up Oxford like never before 

    Highton, Melissa; Robinson, Peter

    Oxford University learning technologies group offer a model for effective practice in creating and using OER in research-led teaching environments where academic practice includes dissemination of research which aids/supplements ...

    The coming of MOOCs 

    Steels, Luc

    A MOOC is a Massively Online Open Course. It is massive because there are many students (sometimes hundreds of thousands). It is online because it uses the Internet for course delivery. It is open because it is publically ...

    La confiança en els Mossos d'Esquadra i la premsa 

    Pascual Pastor, Purificación Teresa

    Treball de Fi de Grau en Criminologia i Polítiques Públiques de Prevenció. Curs 2014-2015

    Student Journalism 2.0 : Testing Models for Participatory Learning in the Digital Age 

    Caswell, Tom; Kozak, Alex

    Many educators and educational institutions have yet to integrate web-based practices into their classrooms and curricula. As a result, it can be difficult to prototype and evaluate approaches to transforming classrooms ...

    OER in Portugal as agent of curriculum innovation and technological change. Inducing practices of "new" teaching standards 

    Matos Pereira, Paulo Manuel de

    This research project aimed the following goal: promote the creation, use and disclosure of OER in a Group of Schools, involving schools and teachers from different learning levels, expecting to test and validate the use ...

    Uniformes quemados : El Síndrome del Burnout en el cuerpo de policía de Mossos d’Esquadra 

    García Rodríguez, Sara

    Tutor: Marta González Sepúlveda

    Building Capacity in Developing Countries : OER for Food Safety 

    Heyboer, Gwyn; Kim, Sunnie; Bourquin, Leslie D.; Thiagarajan, Deepa

    The Food Safety Knowledge Network (FSKN) was developed through the collaboration of Michigan State University and a professional network of international food industry retailers and manufacturers. The key objective of the ...

    Collective Intelligence for OER Sustainability 

    Buckingham Shum, Simon; Liddo, Anna de

    To thrive, the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement, or a given initiative, must make sense of a complex, changing environment. Since "sustainability" is a desirable systemic capacity that our community should display, ...

    Reaching the Heart of the University : Libraries and the Future of OER 

    Kleymeer, Pieter; Kleinman, Molly; Hanss, Ted

    University libraries are well positioned to run or support OER production and publication operations. Many university libraries already have the technical, service, and policy infrastructure in place that would provide ...

    Opening Education Beyond the Property Relation: From Commons to Communism 

    University of Utopia

    Open Education, and specifically the OER movement, seeks to provide universal access to knowledge, undermining the historical enclosure and the increasing privatisation of the public education system. In this paper we ...

    Open Educational Resources for Development of University Courses 

    Richards, Griff; Marshall, Stewart

    Open Education Resources are educational materials purposely made available for free use by others. They offer tremendous potential for reducing costs and increasing access to education especially in the developing world. ...

    Towards a Social Learning Space for Open Educational Resources 

    Buckingham Shum, Simon; Ferguson, Rebecca

    We identify a number of meanings of "Open", as part of the motivating rationale for a social media space tuned for learning, called SocialLearn. We discuss why online social learning seems to be emerging so strongly at ...

    La introducción del inglés en la docencia y su influencia en los contenidos de las asignaturas de Derecho Financiero y Tributario 

    Vega García, Alberto

    A pesar de que numerosos juristas (jueces, notarios, registradores de la propiedad...) puedan desarrollar/nsu carrera profesional sin necesitar conocer lenguas extranjeras, el dominio del inglés es una competencia/nimprescindible ...

    Search and Discovery : OER's Open Loop 

    Yergler, Nathan R.

    Open educational resources (OER) promise increased access, participation, quality, and relevance, in addition to cost reduction. These seemingly fantastic promises are based on the supposition that educators and learners ...

    ¿Tiene sentido una intervención rehabilitadora con internos no motivados al cambio? 

    Delgado Durán, Marc

    Treball de Fi de Grau en Criminologia i Polítiques Públiques de Prevenció. Curs 2012-2013/n Tutor: Antoni Forcadell Berenguer

    Open access press vs traditional university presses on Amazon 

    McGreal, Rory; Acqua, Edward

    This study is a comparison AU Press with three other traditional (non-open access) Canadian university presses. The analysis is based on actual physical book sales on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca. Statistical methods include ...

    La literatura jurídica, un mirall entelat de les guerres, les revoltes i les paus en la Catalunya dels anys 1640-1700 

    Capdeferro i Pla, Josep

    Aquest text s’emmarca en dos projectes de recerca: a) SEJ2006-15051-C03-01 “El derecho histórico en los pueblos de España: ámbitos público y privado (siglos XII-XXI)”, dirigit per Tomàs de Montagut, catedràtic d’Història ...

    Open online courses in Colombia : report of an educational and technological experiment 

    Leal Fonseca, Diego E.

    Based on a discussion of the background, features and limitations of open online courses, this paper describes a technological solution to support their offering, built on online tools that don't require self-managed ...

    Examining the sustainability issues in UKOER projects : Developing a sustainable OER ecosystem in HE 

    Yuan, Li; Robertson, R. John; Campbell, Lorna M.; Pegler, Chris

    The development of open educational resources (OERs) is becoming a strategic priority for governments and education institutions around the world, in response to funding cuts and rising costs in educational provision. In ...

    EduFeedr - following and supporting learners in open blog-based courses 

    Põldoja, Hans

    In recent years several educators have organized open courses where participants reflect on their personal blogs. With a large number of participants it becomes a challenge to follow all the course discussions. In this ...