Reusing Open Resources

Every day, learners use and reuse open, digital resources for learning. Reusing Open Resources offers a vision of the potential of these open, online resources to support learning. The book follows on from Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to E-learning. At that time focus was on the creation, release and reuse of digital learning resources modeled on educational materials. Since then the open release of resources and data has become mainstream, rather than specialist, changing societal expectations around resource reuse. Social and professional learning networks are now routine places for the exchange of online knowledge resources that are shared, manipulated and reused in new ways, opening opportunities for new models of business, research and learning. The goal of this book is to extend the debate of how open, online resources might support learning across diverse contexts. Twenty-four distinguished experts from nine countries distributed across Europe and North America contribute empirical evidence and ideas. Collectively they provide a vision of the potential of open, online resources to support learning across everyday contexts of education, work and life.

Professor Allison Littlejohn is Director of the Caledonian Academy and Chair of Learning Technology at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. Dr. Chris Pegler is a UK National Teaching Fellow and a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, UK.

INTRODUCTION: Chapter 1: Reusing Open Resources for Learning Allison Littlejohn, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University and Chris Pegler, Open University (UK) SECTION 1: Life Chapter 2: Agoraphobia and the modern learner Jon Dron and Terry Anderson, Athabasca University Chapter 3: Open-sourcing personal learning Sebastian H.D. Fiedler, Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Estonia Chapter 4: Open networks and bounded communities: Tensions inherent in releasing Open Educational Resources Allison Littlejohn, Isobel Falconer, Lou McGill and Helen Beetham, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Chapter 5: OER: A European policy perspective Jesús Maria Alquézar Sabadie, Jonatan Castaño Muñoz, Christine Redecker, Yves Punie, Riina Vuorikari, European Commission - Directorate General Education and Culture and Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) SECTION 2: Work Chapter 6: Workplace Learning in Informal Networks Colin Milligan, Allison Littlejohn, and Anoush Margaryan, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Chapter 7: Challenges of Collaborative Knowledge Creation - Work with Shared Objects Sami Paavola, University of Helsinki, Finland Chapter 8: Open, lifewide learning: A vision Allison Littlejohn, Isobel Falconer, Lou McGill, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK SECTION 3: Education Chapter 9: Learning across Sites through Learning by Design in Use Marisa Ponti, Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg, and Department of Education and InterMedia, University of Oslo Magnus Bergquist, Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg Ebba Ossiannilsson, Centre for Educational Development and Evaluation Office, Lund University and Oulu University Chapter 10: Massive Open Online Courses: A traditional or transformative approach to learning? Katie Vale, Harvard University and Allison Littlejohn, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Chapter 11: Analytics for Education Sheila MacNeill, Lorna M. Campbell and Martin Hawksey, Centre for Interoperability Standards (CETIS), UK Chapter 12: Applying agile methods in researching open education Patrick McAndrew, The Open University