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Importance of Creative Commons Licensing and the Creative Commons Movement to Open Education Resources Initiatives in Nigeria
(2013-11)
The paper looks at the role of Creative Commons Licenses (CC) in promoting Open Education Resources (OERs) initiative in Nigeria in the light of the newly formed Creative Commons Nigeria Affiliate. It discusses the importance ...
Development and Delivery of an OER based University Course: Wawasan Open University Experience
(2013-11)
The paper discusses the processes adopted in developing an OER integrated five credit Post Graduate course: ICT in Education, and also the strategy followed at the University for the delivery of the course to distance ...
A grape that sees another gets ripe: Some OER issues for the Commonwealth
(2013-11)
Human development Index gives a high importance to the gross enrollment ratio. Therefore the future of countries is more and more dependent on the knowledge, skills, and resourcefulness of its human resources. However, ...
Addressing a National Crisis in Learning: Open Educational Resources, Teacher-Education in India and the Role of Online Communities of Practice
(2013-11)
India currently suffers from an estimated 1.33 million shortfall in teachers and many existing teachers are unqualified, resulting in inadequate access to education and poor standards of learning for those already in the ...
Open Educational Resources and Driving Access to Knowledge: Action for Libraries in Nigeria
(2013-11)
In the world of exponential growth of information and the influx of technologies in diverse formats, access to information and knowledge is a critical issue. Information and knowledge are worthless if access cannot be ...
Criteria’s for Quality Assurance in Designing and Developing Open Educational Resources for Schools
(2013-11)
To achieve the dream of equal and just society we need to develop ourselves as a worthy and independent member learning community. To realize this dream every member must be free from fears of different kind that make ...
Panel discusson on Open Educational Resources for Development
(2013-11)
An international panel of experts in OER will provide their views on the state of the art in OER creation and deployment. This will include reports on OER activities on four continents and regions and on the development ...
Assessment of pre-service teachers’ information and communication technology literacy and use of open educational resources
(2013-11)
The practice of education is changing globally in response to education for all (EFA) and the millennium development goals (MDG). Open educational resources (OER) offer viable opportunity as a tool to enable realistic ...
Fostering Governmental Support for Open Educational Resources Internationally (FGSOERI): Latin America
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver and UNESCO, 2012-03)
As part of the project Fostering Governmental Support for Open Educational Resources Internationally (FGSOERI), six regional policy forums will be held, one in each UNESCO region, between January and May 2012. The objectives ...
Fostering Governmental Support for Open Educational Resources Internationally (FGSOERI): Europe
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver and UNESCO, 2012-04)
As part of the project Fostering Governmental Support for Open Educational Resources Internationally (FGSOERI), six regional policy forums will be held, one in each UNESCO region, between January and May 2012. The objectives ...