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About Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open educational resources (OER) are learning materials that are freely available for use, remixing and redistribution. (Source: Wikipedia)

Collected Objectives of OER

• lower thresholds for access to formal HE
• increase participation in HE
• attract (good) students
• increase reputation of institutions and nations
• public relations: researchers bring their thoughts and views to a broad public
• explore innovative open business models
• establish an alternative track through HE for lifelong learning

OER concerns and issues

• financial concerns
• legal issues
• sustainability

Means

• funding
• award, hall of fame

OER Initiatives

Europe:

• MORIL (Multi lingual open resources for independent learning)

UK:

• UK OU

Netherlands:

• OpenER @ OUNL (2006). 25 open courses.
• OpenER @ TU Delft (2007). 31 courses.
• Spinoza Series (national) (2008)
• Networked Open Polytechnic (2009). Long planning period
• Wikiwijs (national) (2009, roll-out: 2010). Large-scale initiative with broad support in parliament. Repository and referatory to digital educational resources. For, by and of teachers, but no additional payment. Mandatory distribution license: CC-BY. Quality assured by peer review and competent participants.

Other 'Open' Philosophies...

Open Access: access to material via the Internet in such a way that the material is free for all users to read and use. In higher education institution open access often means free access to research publications.

Open Content: any kind of creative work or content, published under a license that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone.

Open Data: is a philosophy and practice requiring that certain data are freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents, or other mechanisms of control. In practice OD is often related to open science data (i.e. series of measurements) or data of public administation services (census, geo data, etc.).

Open Source: practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials.