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An Introduction to Open Educational Resources and
the Connexions and Vietnam OpenCourseWare Projects
Hung Tran
Vietnam Education Foundation
Friday, December 15, 2006
4:00-4:50pm,
205 MLH
Abstract
The term Open Educational Resources (OER) was introduced by UNESCO in
2002 and covers a growing number of projects aimed at providing free
and open access to a variety of educational materials including:
course content and courseware; software for development, management,
and delivery of content; and standards and licensing information
facilitating localization of resources.
The first part of the talk will provide an introduction to OER, some
approaches used by OER projects around the world, and current issues
in OER. In the second part, we will talk about one OER success story,
Rice University's Connexions project. The Vietnam OpenCourseWare
project, a recent startup effort that aims to bring OER to Vietnamese
educators, students and self-learners, will be presented in the
remaining part.
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