An Overview of Open Education Resources for Higher Education

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Abstract

Since adopted in early 2000's, open education resources (OER) have evolved as a major source of learning materials for higher education. In general, there are four categories of OER, namely, open textbooks, open courseware, open online courses, and open-source software and tools to support teaching and learning. This paper attempts to characterize these four categories of OER with representative examples, and elaborates various commonly adopted open licensing options for OER.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKnowledge Sharing through Technology - 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning, ICT 2013, Revised Selected Papers
Pages26-34
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning, ICT 2013 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 10 Jul 201311 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume407 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning, ICT 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period10/07/1311/07/13

Keywords

  • higher education
  • online open courses
  • open courseware
  • open education resources
  • open license
  • open textbook

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