Open Source Education Resource (OER) Books and Resources
Two books have recently been published on open source technology for education: Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (2009) George Siemens, Peter Tittenberger, University of Manitoba. 61p. Free-as-in-beer, creative commons license. Wiki for book . Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace (2009) Edited by Susan d'Antoni and Catriona Savage, UNESCO. 172p. 12 Euro!! [ OK, if UNESCO wants to sell dead-tree books, fine I guess, but they definitely should be giving away the digital versions of the books too. ] These new releases both deal with Open Educational Resources (OER). For more in OER, see the Resources list below. The tables of contents of these two books are farther below. Resources: Open Educational Resources (Wikipedia entry) Open Educational Resource Commons Open Educational Resources (OER) and Libraries (2009) Paula J. Hane. InfoToday Open Educational Resources in India’s national development (2009) MSV Kumar. Open Learning: The Journal of Ope...