OER reading list (prepared 1 September 2009)

Declarations
Final Declaration of the Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in
Developing Countries (2002) http://www.wcet.info/resources/publications/unescofinalreport.pdf
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2008) http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-
the-declaration
M-2009 Statement on Open Educational Resources (2009)
http://www.ou.nl/eCache/DEF/2/11/014.html

The big publications
Guntram Geser, ed. (2007). Open Educational Practices and Resources: OLCOS Roadmap 2012.
Salzburg Research, EduMedia Group. http://www.olcos.org/english/roadmap/
OECD (2007). Giving knowledge for free: the emergence of Open Educational Resources. Paris,
OECD.
http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/display.asp?CID=&LANG=EN&SF1=DI&ST1=5L4S6TNG3F9X
Dan Atkins, John Seely Brown and Allen Hammond (2007). A Review of the Open Educational
Resources (OER) Movement: achievement, challenges and new opportunities.
http://www.oerderves.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/a-review-of-the-open-educational-
resources-oer-movement_final.pdf
Toru Iiyoshi and M.S. Vijay Kumar (eds.) (2008). Opening Up Education: The Collective
Advancement of Education Through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge.
Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11309&mode=toc
Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning special issue on OER, Vol.24, No.1,
February 2009. http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=issue&issn=0268-
0513&volume=24&issue=1
Susan D'Antoni and Catriona Savage (eds.) (2009). Open Educational Resources: Conversations in
Cyberspace. Paris, UNESCO. http://oerwiki.iiep-
unesco.org/index.php?title=Open_Educational_Resources:_Conversations_in_Cyberspace

Early articles and papers
UNESCO (2002). Forum on the impact of open courseware for higher education in developing
countries: final report. http://www.wcet.info/resources/publications/unescofinalreport.pdf
Sally M. Johnstone and Russell Poulin (2002). What is opencourseware and why does it matter?
Change, Vol.34, No.4, July/August 2002. No longer available online
Sally Johnstone and John Witherspoon (2002). Open Educational Resources emerge on the web.
IAU Newsletter, Vol.8, No.5. http://www.unesco.org/iau/newsletters/iaunew85.pdf
Anne H. Moore (2002). Lens on the future: open-source learning. Educause Review, Vol.37, No.5,
September/October 2002. http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm02/erm025.asp
Thomas E. Malloy, Gary C. Jensen, Alison Regan and Mary Reddick (2002). Open courseware and
shared knowledge in higher education. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers,
Vol.34, No.2. http://brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/34/2/200.abstract

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Derek Keats (2003). Collaborative development of open content: a process model to unlock the
potential for African universities. First Monday, Vol.8, No.2, February 2003.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_2/keats/index.html
George Siemens (2003). Why we should share learning resources. Elearnspace, 29 May 2003.
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/why_we_should_share.htm
Peter Materu (2004). Open Source Courseware: a baseline study. World Bank.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTAFRREGTOPTEIA/Resources/open_source_courseware.pdf
Sally Johnstone (2005) Open Educational Resources serve the world. Educause Quarterly, Vol.28,
No.3.
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/OpenEducati
onalResourcesServet/157357
Lisa Petrides and Cynthia Jimes (2006). Open Educational Resources: toward a new educational
paradigm. iJournal, No.14.
http://www.ijournal.us/issue_14/ij_14_04_articleframe_Petrides_Jimes.html
Charles Vest (2006). Open content and the emerging global meta-university. EDUCAUSE Review,
Vol.41, No.3.
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume41/OpenContent
andtheEmergingGloba/158053
Mike Smith and Cathy Casserly (2006). The promise of Open Educational Resources. Change,
Vol.38, No.5. http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/changearticle.pdf

Where is OER at the moment? Recent overviews and opinion
Jimmy Wales and Rich Baraniuk (2008). Bringing open resources to textbooks and teaching. San
Francisco Chronicle, 22 January 2008. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-
bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/22/EDRTUJ346.DTL
Christine Geith: Can OER really impact higher education and human development? Terra
Incognita, 1 February 2008. http://blog.worldcampus.psu.edu/index.php/2008/02/01/can-oer-
impact-human-development/
Amee Godwin: On doing OER. Terra Incognita, 1 March 2008.
http://blog.worldcampus.psu.edu/index.php/2008/03/01/in-doing-oer/
Derek Keats: Evolution to education 3.0. Terra Incognita, 1 June 2008.
http://blog.worldcampus.psu.edu/index.php/2008/06/01/evolution-to-education/
Andy Lane: Systems for supportive open teaching. Terra Incognita, 26 November 2008.
http://blog.worldcampus.psu.edu/index.php/2008/11/26/systems-for-supportive-open-teaching/
Li Yuan, Sheila MacNeill and Wilbert Kraan (2008). Open Educational Resources – Opportunities
and Challenges for Higher Education. JISC CETIS briefing paper.
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf
Mike Smith (2009). Opening education. Science, Vol.323, 2 January 2009.
https://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5910/89 (abstract only)
Tom Carey: How do OER acquire their value for teaching and learning? Academic Commons, 18
March 2009. http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/open-educational-resources
Sheila MacNeill: OER road trip. Sheila’s work blog, 24 July 2009.
http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2009/07/24/oer-road-trip/
Norm Friesen: Open source resources in education: opportunities and challenges. Open Source
Business Resource, July 2009: Collaboration.
http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/911/880