Editorial - Cambridge OER 2012

Authors

  • Anna Comas-Quinn The Open University
  • Alannah Fitzgerald Concorida University
  • Ian Fairweather University of Manchester

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5334/2012-09

Keywords:

OER, Open Educational Resources

Abstract

This second JIME special edition on Open Educational Resources draws on the success of the recent Cambridge 2012 Conference, which was jointly hosted by the Open Course Ware Consortium (OCWC) and the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE), at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Key themes from the conference on innovation, impact and collaboration for advancing OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources globally are presented in the papers in this special issue.

Author Biographies

  • Anna Comas-Quinn, The Open University
    Lecturer in Spanish, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, SCORE Fellow
  • Ian Fairweather, University of Manchester
    Lecturer in Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences

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Published

2012-12-06

Issue

Vol. 2012 No. 2: Cambridge OER 2012 (Special Issue)

Section

Editorial

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