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A new method for sustainable development of open educational resources

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Sylvia Stuurman,

Marko van Eekelen,

Bastiaan HeerenAuthors Info & Claims

CSERC '12: Proceedings of Second Computer Science Education Research Conference

Pages 57 - 66

https://doi.org/10.1145/2421277.2421284

Published: 09 September 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Open Educational Resources (OER) seem to be a natural fit with a distance learning university: open resources are in line with the university's mission to provide access to academic education, most material is available in digital form, and even the name of distance learning universities often contains the word "open". However, in practice, it is difficult to realize sustainable OER, especially if no existing material may be used. We propose a new method to create sustainable OER based on new educational material, and compare this method with existing models for sustainable OER. The main characteristic of the method is that OER are produced as side-effect of Continuous Professional Development (CPD). As an example of this CPD method, we describe the development of a short OER course about the programming language Scala.

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Index Terms

A new method for sustainable development of open educational resources
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Functional languages

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CSERC '12: Proceedings of Second Computer Science Education Research Conference

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DOI:10.1145/2421277

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Hai-Jew S(2015)Iff and Other ConditionalsOpen Source Technology10.4018/978-1-4666-7230-7.ch033(613-746)Online publication date: 2015
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7230-7.ch033
Gasparetti FLimongelli CSciarrone F(2015)Exploiting wikipedia for discovering prerequisite relationships among learning objects2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218038(1-6)Online publication date: Jun-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218038
Hai-Jew S(2014)Iff and Other ConditionalsRemote Workforce Training10.4018/978-1-4666-5137-1.ch013(278-410)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5137-1.ch013

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