Wikipedia:Communicate OER/Resources

Reference information about OER[edit]

Do you know of general knowledge resources, online or offline, that would help support the improvement of Wikipedia content about openness in education? Please include them here, along with any notes - citation and references are critical to the quality of Wikipedia articles. Open Access items are particularly useful.

General[edit]

The "See also" list from OER article
OER Knowledge Cloud, a UNESCO/COL project established to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate available documents of enduring value to researchers, industry, government, scholars, writers, historians, journalists and informal learners

Books[edit]

Open Education Handbook (in progress) from Open Education Working Group
Peeragogy Handbook: Wiki OER translation Peeragogy Handbook project
Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, MIT Press (2010)

Journal articles[edit]

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals
Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources, 2007. ISBN 9789264032125
Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: An Asian Perspective
Research Library Issues, no. 280 (Sept. 2012): Pre-pub of "Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries"; this has a potentially useful reference list also

Blogs and blog posts[edit]

Posts like this one document a variety of open educational practices. We should consider the best way to capture the knowledge expressed in such posts, while keeping in mind that blogs run by individuals are not particularly high quality sources (per WP:RS).
Iterating Toward Openness from David Wiley
Creative Commons blog
OER Blog by Cable Green

Reports from advocacy and other organizations[edit]

Organizations advocating for open educational practices can provide valuable sources for citation, like this one: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/aps-wikipedia-initiative
White Paper: Open Educational Resources - Breaking the Lockbox on Education, Hewlett Foundation

Miscellaneous resources[edit]

Evidence Hub for Open Education at OLnet
OER timeline from WikiEducator
WikiEducator OERu
OER Policy Registry from Creative Commons

Country-specific OER resources[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

[1] - CC-BY-SA paper on OER history specifically focused on the UK (by Amber Thomas & David Kernohan). Also many useful references.
[2] range of (UK)OER images, all cc-by-sa and generated by Martin Hawksey
[3] JISC OER impact report - UK-focused qualitative view of the impact of OER on academic staff

Korea[edit]

Creative Commons Korea. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/South_Korea (English part of website)
Wikimedia Korea: meta:위키미디어 대한민국
- http://www.slideshare.net/StellaShin/the-current-aspects-of-oer-in-south-korea
Google Translate of Korean CC article contains a few facts about CC in Korea: [4]
Google Translate of Korean CC-Korea article is similar to Creative_Commons#South_Korea: [5]

Indonesia[edit]

Creative Commons Indonesia: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Indonesia
Wikimedia Indonesia: wmid:
Google Translate of Indonesian OER article contains one fact about Indonesian OER: [6]

Information about Wikipedia editing[edit]

Citing sources:

Overview about citing sources on Wikipedia (non-technical). Printable handout (PDF). Three page document explaining why citing sources is important, how to determine what is a good source, etc.
Technical overview of how to cite sources. Printable handout (PDF).
Technical overview of the RefTools feature. Printable handout (PDF) showing an easy way to cite sources.
Video/screencast introduction to RefTools feature

Wikipedia:WikiProject Education may have useful suggestions.