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...by The Open University (OU) in 2006, with the ambition to release 5% of OU taught courses as Open Educational Resources (OER). Today, the platform has recorded over 110 million visitors since 2012. The audience is international, accessing 1,000 free courses and 8,000 articles, videos and activities. Courses have associated free certificates and digital badges with no...

...that it is beginning to offer interesting ways around teaching and education. I work a lot on open educational resources and it’s interesting to see people take these and adapt them for their own context – I don’t think we do enough of this actually. I think we’re only beginning to understand what it means to take content from different places and sequence it...

...of the internet and it is these new interpretations that we will be looking at. They include: Open educational resources; Open licences; Open courses or MOOCs; Pedagogy for open education; Literacies and technology for openness. A word or two about studying an open course To get the most from this ......

...practices of educators as they make use of online opportunities such as social networks and open educational resources. Understand how to create and evaluate approaches to online teaching that are appropriate for you. Moving around the course In the ‘Summary’ at the end of each week, you can find a link to the next week. If at any time you want to return to the start...

...C.A. and Trotter, H. (2018) ‘A Social Justice Framework for Understanding Open Educational Resources and Practices in the Global South’, Journal of learning development, 5(3), pp. 204–225. Ladson-Billings, G. (1995) ‘But that’s just good teaching! The case for culturally relevant pedagogy’, Theory Into Practice, 34, pp. 159–165. McKinley, J. (2010) Raising...

...and actionable way to save time and energy, for your benefit as well as the environment’s! Open Educational Resources (OERs) are one way to do this. They are ‘digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research’ (OECD). OpenLearn has guidance on how to find and evaluate OERs....

...learning environments, offering the security of developing content in a closed environment. * Open Educational Resources (OER) Open Educational Resources are forms of learning content that are shared online with minimal restrictions on their re-use. Schools may be producers and/or consumers of open content. Pupils may access OERs ......