On a Mission to Educate the World
TU Delft is one of the first institutions to have shared their own material on Grasple. What motivated them to make their exercises openly accessible? How did they arrange the process? What does the d …
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Sharing Institution Content On Grasple - FAQs For Open Education
Answers to questions that educational institutions may have when considering publicly sharing their content on the Grasple online platform.
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Empower Learning By Openly Sharing Your Institution’s Collaborative Content
This article explores the growing trend of openly sharing educational materials, despite the challenges involved. It provides examples of how to overcome obstacles and highlights the benefits of shari …
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Adaptive learning and Open education: A Match made in heaven?
What is adaptive learning? When reading about the subject, many definitions appear that also determine most of the pros and cons. You can see these in these three examples of definitions from differen …
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Co-creating OER in Seven Different Patterns
Sourcing or creating teaching materials of good quality takes time - time that individual educators often cannot spare. Turning to traditional publishers, which provide copyrighted materials guarantee …
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How to Determine the Quality of OER in 6 Steps
There are a growing number of open educational resources (OER) available on the Internet. While this is good news for educators and learners, it can also be overwhelming to determine the quality of th …
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STEM Education: Using EdTech to find OER and Create Quality Content
The rise of EdTech is transforming higher education. With EdTech’s digital approach, educators and students can create, share, and find high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER). The result is an …
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How to Incorporate Open Education in your Course
In the last few years, open education has quickly gained momentum. But with its success, new challenges arise. Educators turning to open education often feel overwhelmed or don’t know where to begin. …
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Pros and cons of using OER
Open educational resources (OER) come in many different forms. In some cases, it's debatable to what extent the resources are actually open or if they possibly represent an occurrence of "Open-washing …
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Five Characteristics to Identify Whether Learning Resources are Open
Because of its positive image, OER became a buzzword in the educational field and, as a result, many resources call themselves 'open' while lacking the fundamental characteristics of truly open resour …
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What is OER and for who?
In recent times, the term Open Educational Resources (OER) is a familiar one; whether you are a parent, teacher or student. But it may not always be clear exactly what open educational resources are a …
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