Saturday, September 15, 2007

Open eLearning Content Observatory Services This European portal site contains links to Tutorials about Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Collections of OERs. The tutorial on Searching and Finding OERs provides a helpful starting point for instructors who want to locate online educational resources. Designers and instructors will also want to consult the tutorial on Using Open Source Tools. The Collection of Open eLearning Repositories is definitely worth scanning and bookmarking as is the Collection of Exemplary Institutions with OER Policies. ____JH ____ "OLCOS, the Open eLearning Content Observatory Services project (1/2006-12/2007) is co-funded under the European Union’s eLearning Programme and aims at building an (online) information and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and usage of open educational resources, in particular, open digital educational content (ODEC) in Europe." "OLCOS primary target groups are the producers and consumers of ODEC (eg. Students/teachers/lecturers), secondary target group are the educational institutions and eLearning centres needed to provide an organisational setting and support. Educational policy makers would be needed to encourage sound legislative infrastructure. Last but not least technology developers and researchers are encouraged to provide easy solutions for ODEC publishing." "The project consortium consists of six institutions from five European countries (see Consortium) and is co-ordinated by Salzburg Research (Austria)." 3:57:38 PM    COMMENT []