The Open Flip – a digital economic model for education
Author : Martin Weller The advent of the internet and digital technologies has given rise to a number of new economic models. These have often been applied to e...
Étiquette : OER
The role of « open » in strategic library planning
Academic libraries are undergoing evolutionary change as emerging technologies and new philosophies about how information is created, distributed, and shared ha...
Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research on efficacy and perceptions
Textbooks are a vital component in many higher education contexts. Increasing textbook prices, coupled with general rising costs of higher education have led so...
Who are the Open Learners? A Comparative Study Profiling non-Formal Users of Open Educational Resources
Open educational resources (OER) have been identified as having the potential to extend opportunities for learning to non-formal learners. However, little resea...
Donor Funded Open Educational Resources: Making the Case
PURPOSE This paper aims to explain the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) and how libraries can make a good case to donors to fund these types of proje...
Open Scholarship Practices Reshaping South Africa’s Scholarly Publishing Roadmap
South African higher education institutions are the largest producers of research output on the African continent. Given this status, South African researchers ...
Developing a Sustainable Financial Model in Higher Education for Open Educational Resources
Financial issues regarding the sustainable production, dissemination, and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education are reviewed and proposed ...