Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories

The course is developed under the Sponsor and Leadership of the IEEE Education Society including teachers and colleagues from UNED, Vigo University, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Miguel Hernandez University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Universidad de Murcia, (Spain), Northumbria University, (UK) and MIT (USA).

Open education and open educational resources are deeply influencing and transforming the educational environment. This course offers a practitioner’s view of open education, open educational resources, repositories and applications for educators and professionals.

This 5-week course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which open education and open educational resources are changing the rules of education. The purpose of the course is to help faculty and professionals dedicated to education to understand the advantages of open education and how they can apply it to their everyday teaching.