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15685a04250d619596eac5e018da477d |
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Date |
2009 |
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repository |
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abstract |
Open Educational Resources (OER) give an openly available set of content and tools
that in principle provide a basis for formal and informal communication and collaboration
between groups of individuals around teaching and/or learning. In practice, most communication
and collaboration around OER appears to be asynchronous, loosely connected and not
sustained. The success of social networking sites is also based upon content and tools
to enable and support communication and collaboration. However, that success is seemingly
based upon more immediate, closely connected and sustained activities. In both cases
much is made of the online, virtual aspects of networking and less about its relationship
to offline, real world networking. This paper reviews the experiences with the OpenLearn
site from the UK Open University which combines open content within a learning environment
that offers tools for communication. Drawing upon the action research findings from
its first two years of operation this paper describes examples of individual learners
and institutions communicating and collaborating online and considers the influences
of offline networks. It examines the motivations behind the communication and collaboration
and suggests an emerging typology for such effects depending on who is involved and
what the drivers (and restraints) are for their activities. |
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authorList |
authors |
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ext-49cee5cdb395bbdd45973071c68c0d2c |
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peerReviewed |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/11925 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/12837 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/3590 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/9546 |
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type |
AcademicArticle |
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type |
Article |
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label |
Lane, Andrew ; McAndrew, Patrick and Santos, Andreia (2009). The networking
effects of OER. In: 23rd ICDE World Conference 2009, 7-10 Jun 2009, The Netherlands.
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label |
Lane, Andrew ; McAndrew, Patrick and Santos, Andreia (2009). The networking effects
of OER. In: 23rd ICDE World Conference 2009, 7-10 Jun 2009, The Netherlands. |
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Title |
The networking effects of OER |
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in dataset |
oro |