OER and MOOCs

Sometime ago I had the privilege of interviewing the German and Austrian conveners of the MOOC COER13 after it was first offered, about how they collaboratively designed the MOOC. What constitutes “open” in the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) movement, the role of open educational resources (OER) in MOOCs and MOOCs as OER are several…

Open educational resources

An invited talk at #OERde14 Die Zukunft freier Bildungsmaterialien. Open Educational Resources conference, Berlin, Germany led to my learning a lot about institutional, instructional, policy, and technical aspects of open educational resources (OER) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. I met some great colleagues because the conference brought together people from different sectors with diverse perspectives,…