By Tony Bates. 1. There is a continuum of technology-based learning, from ‘pure’ face-to-face teaching to fully online programs. Every teacher or instructor needs to decide where on the continuum a particular course or program should be.
2. We do not have good research evidence or theories to make this decision, although we do have growing experience of the strengths and limitations of online learning. What is particularly missing is an evidence-based analysis of the strengths and limitations of face-to-face teaching when online learning is also available. More...

By Tony Bates. Open educational resources cover a wide range of formats, including open textbooks, video recorded lectures, YouTube clips, web-based textual materials designed for independent study, animations and simulations, diagrams and graphics, some MOOCs, or even assessment materials such as tests with automated answers. OER can also include Powerpoint slides or lecture notes. In order to be open educational resources, though, they must be freely available for at least educational use. More...

By Tony Bates. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in open education, mainly related to open educational resources and MOOCs. Although in themselves OER and MOOCs are important developments, they tend to cloud other developments in open education that are likely have even more impact on education as a whole. It is therefore necessary to step back a little to get a broader understanding of open education. This will help us better understand the significance of these and other developments in open education, and their likely impact on teaching and learning now and in the future. More...

By OpenEd Challenge. It was the perspective of the OEC  that accelerated the idea and growth of Think with Things:  “Think with Things was born of the challenge. Endearingly coined the ‘love child’ of the OEC, we were off.” When they became one of the seven winning teams last July in Barcelona, it was the beginning of the adventure. More...

FINODEX is a project born to provide new economic and societal value to the European society, through the promotion and the support of innovative ICT services based on FI-PPP technologies and the massive reuse of open data while involving the SMEs and Web entrepreneurs on their creation. More...

Auf der Internetseite erhalten Lehrkräfte umfangreiche Informationen über den Themenbereich UNESCO-Welterbe im internationalen, deutschen und rheinland-pfälzischen sowie hessischen Kontext. More...

The research and education networking community TERENA has announced the completion of its Open Educational Resource (OER) pilot project, started in March 2014. The primary aim of this project was to create the first working prototype of an OER portal service, by developing a metadata aggregation engine and a web portal front-end. More...

This year's Open Education Global Conference 2015 is taking place in Banff, Alberta, Canada from 22-24 April, 2015. The Open Education Global Conference is the annual opportunity for researchers, practitioners, policy makers and educators to deeply explore open education and its impact on global education. More...

The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education.  We envision a world where everyone, everywhere has access to the education they need to build their futures.
See why Open Education is important and more information about activities, sponsors, members and events on the website. More...

The 4th annual Open Education Week will take place March 9-13, with both online and locally hosted events around the world. The goal of this event is to raise awareness about open education and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. More...