Research guides: Open Education Resources: Open Education

Introduction

According to Tony Bates and others, Open Education is

education for all: free or very low cost school, college or university education available to everyone within a particular jurisdiction, usually funded primarily through the state;
open access to programs that lead to full, recognised qualifications. These are offered by national open universities or more recently by the OERu;
open access to courses or programs that are not for formal credit, although it may be possible to acquire badges or certificates for successful completion. MOOCs are a good example;
open educational resources that instructors or learners can use [and adapt] for free;
open textbooks, online textbooks that are free for students to use;
open research, whereby research papers are made available online for free downloading;
open data, that is, data open to anyone to use, reuse, and redistribute, subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share.
open access to scholarly work available for free online, typically through open access journals

Open Ed Stories from Camosun College Check out the amazing work our faculty and students are doing with Open Education!
Open Education Workshops at Camosun Camosun offers faculty workshops on Open Education during May and June, but the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) is always happy to talk one on one or with department/program groups about Open Education, or to offer specific workshops to groups upon request.
Introduction to Open Education - Workshop Slides, 2023 These are the presentation slides from the Introduction to Open Education and OER workshop which was run by the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and took place in spring 2023.
Introduction to Open Pedagogy - Workshop Slides, 2023 These are the presentation slides from the Introduction to Open Pedagogy workshop which was run by the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and took place in spring 2023.
Supporting Student Engagement with H5P - Workshop Slides, 2023 These are the presentation slides from the Supporting Student Engagement with H5P workshop which was run by the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and took place in spring 2023.