Developing 21st Century Skills through Colearning with OER and Social Networks
Developing 21st Century Skills through Colearning with OER and Social Networks
Author(s): Alexandra Okada, Cintia Rabello, Giselle FerreiraSubject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Higher Education
Published by: European Distance and E-Learning Network
Keywords: 21st century skills; Collaborative learning; collaborative open learning; Competence development; E-skills, e-competences; Institutional case study; International collaboration and networking; Lifelon
Summary/Abstract: In little over a decade, Open Educational Resources (OER) have opened upaccess to knowledge through hundreds of projects and open contentrepositories, open practices and, more recently, Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). However, OER lie at the heart of the Open Educationmovement, which advocates that communities and individuals should haveaccess not only to repositories, but also to open technologies and methodologies. Since 2006, OER initiatives such as OpenLearn have beenproviding both open content and knowledge media environments. Currently, itis possible to observe that an increasing number of open learning projectshave been moving beyond the provision of repositories to offer socialpersonalised platforms for collaborative open knowledge construction.OpenScout and weSPOT, for example, offer opportunities for users toorganise their social networks and co-create resources, methodologies, inquiries and best practices.
Journal: European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) Conference Proceedings
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 121-130
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
