Digital Learning Resources

Improving the supply, flow and uptake of content

A (very) short history of open content

• 2001

• 2001

• 2005

The quest for open educational resources

How to find your How to find your way?way?

LRE?

Class room

At school

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Publishers

OER Portals

Create

DLO Lifecycle (educational content chain)

Develop/create

Disclose

Search

Find

(Re-)use

Development / creation of LO’s

• Commercial business scenario’s and LRE

• Implementation of CC-licenses

• Professional training

• Communities of practice

• Provision of authoring tools

Disclosure of LO

• Local/National portals and LRE• Implementation of standards at national &

local level • Technical support for ministries• Stable technical infrastructures• Powerful search engines• Good metadata • … and other standards

Search and Find strategies

• Localisation mechanisms

• Curriculum mapping

• The language problem / translation issues

• Usability research & user requirements

Use & re-use

• The quest for QUALITY open educational resources

• Competences for the knowledge society

Agenda