As Joe Hart commented in the Threads community, access to the UNESCO discussion forum on Open Course Content for Higher Education was cut off at 400 participants. The dicussion is being blogged on the EduResources Weblog and you can find background readings and discussion summaries at the UNESCO virtual university and elearning website. Thus far, what I'm seeing is that while there is a recognition that open educational resources (OERs) are useful and even vital to the developing world, the usual emphasis and focus on an institution-based approach is taking hold. The question of accrediting OERs came up in the first discussion, for example, and the examples discussed in the second consist of MIT's OpenCourseWare, Rice's Connexions, and Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative. Perhaps when the discussion is opened we can learn more about what people outside the official circles are doing.
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