OA books, OA articles, OA journals
OA books, OA articles, OA journals
CC-BY Attribution – This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others…
The Open Education Consortium (OEC) is a non-profit, global, members-based network of open education institutions and organizations. OEC represents its members and provides advocacy and leadership around advancement of open education globally. OEC works with its members to build capacity…
What is a MOOC? Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses available for anyone to enroll. MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills, advance your career and deliver quality educational experiences at scale.
A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on attendance.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available online materials that anyone can use for learning and/or teaching. Examples are courses- including MOOCs (Massive Online Open Course), lectures, teaching materials, assignments and various other resources. OERs are available in many different…
As I was conducting some research for a project I am working on, I became puzzled by the differences between Open Access (OA) materials and Open Educational Resources (OER). I did some digging and here is what I discovered: Open…
Self-archiving – making a copy of a manuscript available through a personal website, institutional repository, or other repository.
Impact – the scale of use of research outputs both inside and outside of academia.
Open access publisher – a publisher that publishes all research articles as open access articles. Most legacy publishers have options to make journals at least partially open access.
Legacy publisher – a publisher that historically has operated on a paywall-based business model.
Toll access – whereby a fee is required to pass a paywall to access research.
Subscription – a form of business model whereby a fee is paid in order to gain access to a product or service – in this case, the outputs of scholarly research.