Open Content and Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education

The role of distance education is shifting. Traditionally distance education was limited in the number of people served because of production, reproduction, and distribution costs. Today, while it still costs the university time and money to produce a course, technology has made it such that reprodu...

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Autores principales:	Tom Caswell, Shelley Henson, Marion Jensen, David Wiley
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2008
Materias:	OpenCourseWare distance education access new technologies Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:192a356b8ef24ddaac9a2818ae73cfe02021-12-02T19:25:12ZOpen Content and Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education10.19173/irrodl.v9i1.4691492-3831https://doaj.org/article/192a356b8ef24ddaac9a2818ae73cfe02008-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/469https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The role of distance education is shifting. Traditionally distance education was limited in the number of people served because of production, reproduction, and distribution costs. Today, while it still costs the university time and money to produce a course, technology has made it such that reproduction costs are almost non-existent. This shift has significant implications, and allows distance educators to play an important role in the fulfillment of the promise of the right to universal education. At little or no cost, universities can make their content available to millions. This content has the potential to substantially improve the quality of life of learners around the world. New distance education technologies, such as OpenCourseWares, act as enablers to achieving the universal right to education. These technologies, and the associated changes in the cost of providing access to education, change distance education's role from one of classroom alternative to one of social transformer.Tom CaswellShelley HensonMarion JensenDavid WileyAthabasca University PressarticleOpenCourseWaredistance educationaccessnew technologiesSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2008)
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description	The role of distance education is shifting. Traditionally distance education was limited in the number of people served because of production, reproduction, and distribution costs. Today, while it still costs the university time and money to produce a course, technology has made it such that reproduction costs are almost non-existent. This shift has significant implications, and allows distance educators to play an important role in the fulfillment of the promise of the right to universal education. At little or no cost, universities can make their content available to millions. This content has the potential to substantially improve the quality of life of learners around the world. New distance education technologies, such as OpenCourseWares, act as enablers to achieving the universal right to education. These technologies, and the associated changes in the cost of providing access to education, change distance education's role from one of classroom alternative to one of social transformer.
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Open Content and Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education

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