Individuals are free to learn from OER hosted on the open web. The OER for Assessment and Credit for Students Project will provide opportunities for these OER learners who are interested in earning formal academic credit for their learning. This project will contribute to the design and development of the OER university.
This OER initiative will align with the community service and outreach missions of the formal education sector. Through our community service mission we will open pathways for OER learners to earn formal academic credit and pay reduced fees for assessment and credit. In this way the OER movement can contribute to addressing the global demand for higher education where traditional delivery models are unable to respond to the need for post-secondary education.
edit What we aim to achieve
Objectives
This project aims to:
- Collaboratively develop:
- a logic model including inputs, activities, outputs and impact framework for the initiative;
- a project and implementation plan derived from the logic model.
- Implement one or more credentials based on OER resources for piloting and refining the model across multiple institutions.
- Build a network of formal education education institutions, OER agencies, governments and international agencies to contribute to the incremental development and refinement of the OER university thus nurturing the evolution of a sustainable international OER ecosystem.
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edit What people are saying - Blogs about OERu
- Open content licensing for educators (OCL4Ed 2012); free online workshop (May 15, 2012 18:08)
- Growing the OERu – a pre-conference workshop at Cambridge 2012 (repost) (April 19, 2012 19:06)
- Presentation "What doe OERu mean for a 'blended' university?" Wills 2012 (March 08, 2012 19:26)
- Social Media: An Interview (February 23, 2012 19:48)
- Open Education; need of the hour (January 25, 2012 20:30)
- Resolutions for 2012 (December 31, 2011 12:49)
- How open was 2011? (December 10, 2011 16:53)
- OERu anchor partner and stakeholder meeting; prototype courses in 2012 (November 17, 2011 19:36)
- Guidelines for OER in Higher Education by UNESCO and COL (November 02, 2011 15:10)
- US - INDIA joint statement on Higher Education & exploring models for 21 cy institutions (October 16, 2011 11:33)
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edit News and announcements
Towards an OER university: Free learning for all students worldwide. UNESCO and the OER Foundation announce a strategic international meeting to be hosted in Dunedin on 23 February to commence planning for the provision of free learning to all students worldwide. Support from UNESCO to stream the meeting will allow the participation of education leaders from around the globe. Read more ...
UNESCO will sponsor a live web stream of the planning meeting. Register now as a remote participant, download the  poster and spread the word among colleagues and friends. Let's build sustainable OER futures together!
International media
- Online university discussions begin., Samoa observer, 26 February 2011.
- New uni to bring classes to the masses, Northern Weekly, Melbourne, Australia. 21 February 2011.
- Channel 9 News, Dunedin, New Zealand. 21 February 2011.
- University of Southern Queensland plan for free online university, The Australian, 16 February 2011.
- Plan for online university, Otago Daily Times, 12 February 2011.
- From where I sit: Everyone wins in this free for all. Times Higher Education, London, 10 February 2011.
- OER university to cut cost of degree, in Times Higher Education, London, 10 February 2011.
- Designing assessment and credit pathways for open education learners, Creative Commons, 9 February 2011.
- Towards an OER university: Free learning for all students worldwide, UNESCO press release, 8 February 2011.
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