Open Educational Resources (OER) and Practices (OEP) have recently become hot topics, not only for educational researchers, but also for policy makers in Europe and abroad. There is a general agreement that openness has the potential to widen access to education and to improve, amongst others, cost-efficiency and quality of teaching and learning. In its recent Communication on Rethinking Education, the European Commission announced a new initiative on “Opening-up Education” to be launched mid-2013.
eLearning Papers is currently welcoming submissions which address the challenges and future of Massive Open Online Courses, a trend in education that has skyrocketed since 2008. Issue 33, MOOCs and Beyond, seeks to both generate debate, and coalesce a variety of critical perspectives into a fruitful body of research.
From monday 11th until 15th March is the second Open Education Week, coordinated by the OCW Consortium. During the week the partners of this project are organising multiple events. Below the schedule of this events with a short description and the link.
Open Praxis released a new journal issue focusing on the concept of openness and its growth and use in higher education. This special issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
