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What is Open Courseware

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Shaping the Future of Online Learning: Education in the Metaverse
A type of open educational resources that provides interested users free course content, evaluation tools and plans.
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The Role of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in the Future of Online Learning
Alev Ateş-Çobanoğlu (Ege University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6513-4.ch005
Abstract
Open education ecosystem is dynamic in its nature and has an ever-growing body of educational resources with Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs offer great opportunities for the learners freely access to digital content which accommodate their learning needs and can help to fill the inequality gap in education worldwide. This chapter starts with the brief history of OERs, the philosophy of open education, the openness movement which entails the concept of OERs; it continues with current and future role of OERs for the learners and teachers who experience learning and teaching in online learning environments. The motives for facilitating OERs and design criteria for ensuring quality are discussed. Moreover, current debate on the sustainability, discoverability and credibility issues for OERs and the future of online learning are handled considering recent studies on the factors related to development and adoption of OERs by the teachers and academics. Main objective of this chapter is to interpret the potential and challenges of OERs in shaping the future of online learning.
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Game-Based Virtual-World Environments to Engage Lifelong Learners in Open Courseware for Open Learning
Entails instructional contents that are made publicly accessible online by higher education institutions. The use of open courseware should be free of charge. The content layout, regardless of subject matters, often follows the structure of course syllabi, which may include reading lists, course assignments, lecture notes, and other pre-planned instructional materials. Currently there are many open courseware portals available online around the world.
Published in Chapter: Game-Based Virtual-World Environments to Engage Lifelong Learners in Open Courseware for Open Learning; From: Handbook of Research on Technologies for Improving the 21st Century Workforce: Tools for Lifelong Learning
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