By Pierre-Antoine Ullmo. Shareable, reusable and free. The magic cocktail of Open Educational Resources (OER) is seen by many as THE opportunity to transform learning and teaching practices. New apps have been developed to enable teachers to create lesson plans or class books, edit them in a few minutes, share them with their students, enrich them with their comments, and keep track of the work they do on it in order to monitor and personalize their learning processes. Apparently, new contents emerge. More...
Keynote presentation delivered to Open Access Week, Nova Scotia Community College
Open Access and Open Learning- Keynote presentation delivered to Open Access Week, Nova Scotia Community College, Online via BB Collaborate.
Over time, as resources have become more open, open learning has come to mean a form of learning where students can pick their own resources, identify their own learning goals, and set their own pace. More recently open learning has come to include concepts like open assessments and open credentials. In this talk, open learning advocate and pioneer I discuss the evolution of open learning, highlighting the vital role played by open access, and discuss current and future trends, including massive open online courses (MOOCs), learning analytics, and personal learning environments.