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OER ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES

  1. Toward Building a Relevant Research Community.—The initial phase has quite properly focused on building and assessing pilot projects. Here, however, are some OER projects that are primarily focusing on related R&D—on OER as an object of study. In future activities there is a need to nurture a more coherent field of study around and about OER. There are research components included in most of the large projects together with a few more generic academic research projects such as the following:
  1. Boston College is establishing a new online Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment.[1]
  1. Brandeis University is developing SpellBee,[2] a peer-to-peer technology-based community project for young learners.
  1. Forum for the Future of Higher Education[3] is developing and implementing a forum on human cognition and new technologies.
  1. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development[4] is conducting an international study of demand and supply side issues related to Open Educational Resources and creating E-learning case studies in post-secondary education and training.
  1. Stanford University[5] is organizing a working group to plan for large-scale digitization of Arabic-language books.
  1. University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education[6] is studying the use of web-based collections of open academic content.
  1. Building Awareness, Voice, and Understanding.—Some of the projects have given voice to the OER movement, building understanding, capacity, and action in various stakeholder communities, including policy formulators. These include:
  1. A Columbia University[7] project is teaching educators, technologists, video producers, and other stakeholders about uses of video and open content.


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