Online Infrastructures for Open Educational Resources

Victoria I. Marín, Daniel Villar-Onrubia

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    Abstract

    Open educational resources (OER) have generated a considerable amount of attention in recent years in the field of open, distance, and digital education (ODDE). Digital knowledge infrastructures of different kinds have enabled the creation, storage, management, sharing, and adoption of these resources across educational sectors, levels, and geographies. This chapter presents a general overview of these infrastructures, the underpinning models of OER provision, main characteristics, and key insights from research. It draws on the literature and discusses examples purposively selected to illustrate the diversity of scope, educational stages, and types of online OER infrastructures established on a global, national, regional, or institutional scale. Key challenges are also discussed, including licensing issues, concerns about quality assurance, metadata problems, the sustainability of the initiatives, and sociocultural aspects, among others. In addition to revisiting the conception and adoption of OER in different cultures, important topics to be further addressed by future ODDE research are presented.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationHandbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education
    EditorsOlaf Zawacki-Richter, Insung Jung
    PublisherSpringer, Singapore
    Pages1-20
    Number of pages20
    ISBN (Electronic)978-981-19-0351-9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 6 Apr 2022

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    This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

    Keywords

    • Open educational resources (OER)
    • Online infrastructures
    • Repositories
    • Massive open online courses (MOOC)
    • Wikis
    • Open textbooks
    • OpenCourseWare (OCW)

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