OER

As I was reading Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education, I enjoyed the article's intent to explore how the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement could "move distance education's role from one of classroom alternative to one of social transformer." (Caswell et al., 2008)

All learning has the ability to affect the world positively. Every day, individuals use the internet to learn new information and skills, and OER allows more formal lessons to be available to those who have the desire to learn. 

While reading through my RSS feed this week, I found the website http://www.openculture.com/. The website titles itself "The best free cultural & educational media on the web." And looking through the site, I would agree. They have free online courses, audio books, movies, podcasts, K-12 resources (math, social studies, art, science, language, etc.), and eBooks.

I love seeing learning and resources that are available to the public, anyone who as the passion for learning should have the ability. 

*A little short today, I am busy working on my paper, but I love the resource I found, I also shared it on our class Diigo.*

Reference:

Caswell, T., Henson, S., Jensen, M., & Wiley, D. (2008). Open educational resources: Enabling universal education. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 9(1), 1-11.