Unisa blogs

Launch of first pan-European MOOCs Initiative – OpenupEd

Partners in 11 countries have joined forces to launch the first pan-European ‘MOOCs’ (Massive Open Online Courses) initiative, with the support of the European Commission. MOOCs are online university

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Making an honest OER out of YouTube

YouTube videos have in the past often been used as if openly licensed. The standard YouTube license is however not equivalent to a creative commons or other open license.

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Prof M. Makhanya signs Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

The University of South Africa has demonstrated its commitment to Open Access to research output produced by members of the Unisa community by becoming the most recent signatory of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (Berlin Declaration).

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“We don’t have a choice as educators. We have to go OER.”

The end of teaching as we know it – slideshow

I hope this bold statement by Professor Rory McGreal, the COL/UNESCO Chair in OER at Athabasca University in

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Rory McGreal visits Unisa

Unisa has recently had the good fortune to host the COL/UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources, Professor Rory McGreal, who hails from Athabasca University.

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Make your voice heard about OER at Unisa!

Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use

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