OER
Flexible Learning Guidebook
Flexibility, when incorporated into curriculum design enables people more choice in their learning.
During the early years of the 2000s, the words "open education" were only heard in the context of the broader phrase "open educational resources." This usage pattern unfortunately focused the minds of people almost exclusively on content, subtly nudging them away from considering the broader potential for the application of the principle of openness in education generally. And while OER are a critically important portion of modern educational infrastructure, they are only that - infrastructure.
Across a variety of contexts, the development and availability of high quality infrastructure is important for enabling valuable services and facilitating innovation. Education is no different. As OER became more widely available in the mid-2000s, thinking began to extend to open education itself - the practices, policies, and pedagogies that enable the sharing of OER as well as the new practices, policies, and pedagogies enabled by OER (Wiley, 2011).
The book from which this excerpt is taken - Open Education Practices: A User Guide for Organisations - describes some of these practices and policies. The Guide is based on practices at Otago polytechnic.
Activity Seven - Open Education Resources and Philosophies.
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Other resources
- Recording of the web conference presentation by Leigh Blackall about Open Education practices.
- OER Handbook for Educators 1.0 - a step by step guide to producing open resources.
