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Revised Guidelines on the Inclusion of Learners with Disabilities in Open and Distance Learning (ODL)
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 39 pp.
"These Guidelines recognize the value of ODL as one of the most sustainable methods for overcoming the educational barriers faced by persons with disabilities. They also highlight and illustrate the facets of an ODL- facilitated education system using open educational resources (OER), free and open-
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Participant Experience in an Inquiry-Based Massive Open Online Course
Burnaby: Commomwealth of Learning (2022), viii, 111 pp.
"The Introduction to Technology Enabled Learning MOOC (TELMOOC), a massive open online course developed by the Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University, was offered a total of ten times between January 2017 and July 2021. The purpose of TELMOOC was to provide an accessible learning opportun
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Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), xiv, 498 pp.
"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene
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Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for Designing Teaching and Learning
Key Guidance
Vancouver: Tony Bates Associates, 2nd ed. (2019), 767 pp.
"The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when all of us, and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided, while understanding that every subject is different, and every
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Supply and Demand for Open Educational Resources (OER) for Basic Education in Africa: Report and Recommendations
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 50 pp.
"Open educational resources (OER) are an important emerging genre of teaching and learning materials with the potential for providing significant learning support on a global scale. OER have the capacity to enhance the availability of quality reading and learning materials to audiences who are not c
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Praxishandbuch Historisches Lernen und Medienbildung im digitalen Zeitalter
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 447 pp.
"Die Kultusministerkonferenz fordert die systematische Integration digitaler Lernszenarien in die Gestaltung der Unterrichts- und Lernprozesse sowie Medienbildung als integralen Bestandteil aller Unterrichtsfächer. Das von Daniel Bernsen und Ulf Kerber herausgegebene Praxishandbuch „Historisches
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Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South
Cape Town; Ottawa: African Minds;Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), xiii, 592 pp.
"Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and student performance; and increasin
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Open content: Ein Praxisleitfaden zur Nutzung von Creative-Commons-Lizenzen
Bonn; Berlin; Köln: Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission;Wikimedia Deutschland;Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes NordrheinWestfalen (hbz), 2nd ed. (2016), 78 pp.
"Mit dieser Publikation möchten wir interessierten Personen und Organisationen einen praxisorientierten Leitfaden für die Nutzung und Anwendung von freien Lizenzen an die Hand geben: Wie funktionieren freie Lizenzen? Wie finde ich die geeignete Lizenz für meine individuellen Bedürfnisse? Wo find
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Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs and Transformation
Paris; Burnaby: UNESCO;Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 231 pp.
"Open Educational Resources (OER) — teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free for others to use, revise and share — offer a powerful means of expanding the reach and effectiveness of worldwide education. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO co-organised the W
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Guide to Developing Open Textbooks
Burnaby: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 62 pp.
"The Guide to Developing Open Textbooks has been developed to assist teachers, teaching support personnel and educational technology administrators to: 1. understand the value of open education, OER and open textbooks for teaching and learning; 2. appreciate the potential value of developing an open
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A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Paris; Vancouver: UNESCO;Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2015), iv, 133 pp.
"This Guide comprises three sections. The first – a summary of the key issues – is presented in the form of a set of ‘Frequently Asked Questions’. Its purpose is to provide readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and some of the key issues to t
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Quality Models in Online and Open Education Around the Globe: State of the Art and Recommendations
Oslo: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) (2015), 52 pp.
"The report provides the first global overview of quality models in online and open education, an overview which is very timely, delivered as it is for Global Education 2030, the new global educational agenda which replaces Education For All, EFA. The report paints with a broad brush the landscape o
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Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning
Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; Dordrecht; London: Springer (2015), xxxiv, 1019 pp.
"The aim of this handbook is to collect and share the knowledge and experience from the designers’, developers’, teachers’, and students’ views and provide suggestions and advice for future mobile teaching and learning programs. This book includes six sections: design, development, adoption,
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Guía básica de recursos educativos abiertos (REA)
UNESCO (2015), iv, 150 pp.
Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education
Paris: UNESCO (2015), v, 22 pp.
ICT Leadership in Higher Education: Selected Readings
New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2014), 106 pp.
Open Content: A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences
Bonn; Berlin; Köln: German Commission for UNESCO (DUK);Wikimedia Deutschland;North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz) (2014), 78 pp.
"With this publication, we intend to provide interested individuals and organisations with practical guidelines for the use and application of open content licences: How do open content licences work? How do I choose the most suitable licence for my individual needs? Where can I find open content on
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Quality Assurance Toolkit for Open and Distance Non-Formal Education
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), ix, 99 pp.
"Quality assurance (QA) systems applied in educational contexts are generally concerned with inputs — how much money is spent, what staffing, resources and support are provided, what kinds of teaching and learning are involved, and so on. There is an assumption — not always fulfilled — that th
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Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources
Paris: OECD (2007), 147 pp.
"Learning resources are often considered key intellectual property in a competitive higher education world. However, more and more institutions and individuals are sharing their digital learning resources over the Internet, openly and for free, as Open Educational Resources (OER). This study, buildi
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Creating Learning Materials for Open and Distance Learning: A Handbook for Authors and Instructional Designers
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2005), xiv, 251 pp.
