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Creating Open Educational Resources for the 21st Century Learner
An overview of what today's learners tend to expect from open educational resources, including mobile access, short formats and flexible reuse, and how authors can respond.
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Creating Resources for Specific Audiences
How to author open resources for particular learners, subjects and learning goals.
Creating Open Educational Resources for Business and Entrepreneurship
How to write openly licensed business materials built around cases, decisions and practical tasks, with notes on realism, currency, licensing and what to avoid.
Creating Open Educational Resources for Diverse Learners
How to write and adapt open educational resources for learners with different languages, backgrounds and prior knowledge, using plain language, flexible examples and clear licenses.
Creating Open Educational Resources for K-12 Students
A guide to making open resources for school pupils: age-appropriate design, curriculum alignment, child safety and privacy, and how to involve teachers and families.
Creating Open Educational Resources for Language Learning
How to build open audio, vocabulary and conversation practice resources for language classes, with notes on recording quality, licensing, pacing and pitfalls to avoid.
Creating Open Educational Resources for Online and Offline Use
How to choose file formats, keep sizes small and package open educational resources so they work with and without an internet connection, on varied devices.
Creating Open Educational Resources for Special Needs Education
How to adapt and author open educational resources for different support needs, covering alternative formats, pacing, clear structure and working with teachers and families.
Creating Open Educational Resources for STEM Education
How to author open science, technology, engineering and math materials, including equations, simulations, data sets and code, with accuracy, accessibility and reuse in mind.
Creating Open Educational Resources that Support Student Creativity and Innovation
How to design open activities that invite students to make, remix and produce original projects, with notes on briefs, licensing, feedback and fair assessment.
Creating Open Educational Resources that Support Student Reflection and Critical Thinking
How to write prompts and structures in open educational resources that build analysis and the evaluation of sources, with example question types and cautions.
Creating Open Educational Resources that Support Student Reflection and Self-Assessment
How to build quizzes, rubrics and learning journals into open educational resources so students can check their own progress, with design tips and limitations.
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Institutions and Courses Colleges, universities and course design with open resources. Work and Economy Business, training and economic benefits of open learning. Creating Open Resources Writing and adapting open materials for particular audiences and subjects. Policy and Initiatives Frameworks, policies and outreach projects for putting openness into practice. Higher Education Future How openness may change universities, their governance and their direction. Work and Training Futures Preparing learners and employees for work with open resources. Institutional Roles What governments, universities, libraries and museums contribute to open learning. Institutional Change and Reputation How openness affects the culture, image and structure of colleges. Open Resource Guides Practical guides to finding, using, creating and licensing open educational resources.