Update: If I had watched the class lecture video before writing this, I would have known exactly what role open source played in early thinking about open educational resources. My bad.
This is the first assignment post for the Introduction to Open Education (ITOE) class that I’m sitting in on. I’m tagging all assignment posts with “ITOE”. The assignment is as follows:
Carefully review at least 50 pages of historical information on the open education movement. Write a brief summary post on the history of the movement.
- Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources (OECD, 147 pages)
- Open Educational Resources- Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education (JISC CETIS, 34 pages)
- Open Educational Practices and Resources: OLCOS Roadmap 2012 (OLCOS, 149 pages)
- A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities (Atkins, Brown, and Hammond, 80 pages)
- JISC Good Intentions Final Report (JISC, 48 pages)
- OER Handbook for Educators (a printed version is also available; 284 pages)