Open Learning Network

The OpenLearn website gives free access to learning materials from higher education courses.

OpenLearn’s LabSpace makes many different open educational resources (OER) available to you from a wider OER community associated with The Open University.

Edit the materials in the LabSpace. Collaborate with others and publish new versions of the learning materials to share with the world.

Research Leads

Andreia Santos, Chris Pegler

Former OLnet Researcher, Andreia Inamorato Dos Santos has recently written a publication for UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) titled "Open Educational Resources in Brazil: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Prospects for Development and Innovation".

 Mainstreaming Open Educational Practice

 UNESCO Joint policy forum of the OPAL and CONCEDE Projects

Key messages from the event on 14 Nov 2011:

We have a new project challenge here at OLnet. Defining:

Here is a list of the Twitter hashtags commonly used to discuss OER in Brazil...

@reanetbr
#rea
#reanetbr
#reabr
#oer

The JISC Open Educational Resources Programme OER impact study is now available from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer2/oerimpact.aspx.  The report investigates the impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) use on teaching and learning and draws on literature surveys, interviews, focus groups and workshop data to identify the pedagogic, attitudinal, logistical and strategic factors conducive to uptake and sustained use of OER.

In this interview, Dr. Colman-Lerner (Faculty of Engineering, University of La Plata, Argentina) suggests that awareness of OER is largely limited to higher education researchers who are also currently teaching.  He suggests that scientific journals are facing a subscription crisis which could be ameliorated by an open access publishing model.  He publishes his own work though InTech.

A number of OER blogs are aggregated at http://oerblogs.org/.  They are divided up into RSS feeds according to subject:  Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Course Ware (OCW), Intellectual Property and the Open Access Movement.

 Cartography is an established visual representation that has long been used to map many different and contrasting worlds. The emergence and evolution of the Information Age has greatly impacted cartography’s traditional role, stressing the importance of good visual representation in our modern society. From Mercator to Peters via Beck it has been possible to represent or chart almost any object as well as real or fictitious places in time.