Digital Futures in Teacher Education: Open educational resources
1. Digital Futures in Teacher Education: Open educational resources and quality of teaching Project Lead: Richard Pountney, Faculty of Development and Society Principal Investigator: Guy Merchant, Faculty of Development and Society
Open Teaching in the Digital Age - How do we create, remix, license, and share Think about what do we mean by open teaching? What could it mean that openness is the default action of the academic – more about this later…
An open textbook is an openly-licensed textbook offered online by its author(s) or through a non-profit or commercial open-licensed publisher. It must be licensed in a way that grants a baseline set of rights to users that are less restrictive than its standard copyright . Generally, the minimum baseline rights allow users at least the following: to use the textbook without compensating the author to copy the textbook, with appropriate credit to the author to distribute the textbook non-commercially to shift the textbook into another format (such as digital or print)
What depositors assumed The main users will be knowledge experts Quality control is provided by university procedures Accessibility - also as per university procedures Sustainability - just the short term, but no clear view Prerequisites - not a key issue, assumed resource is adaptable – material offered at diff levels