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International Conference on Hybrid Learning

ICHL 2010: Hybrid Learning pp 339–351Cite as

Use of Open Educational Resources: Challenges and Strategies

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Since MIT announced its OpenCourseWare Program in 2001, Open educational resources has gradually developed into a practical hotspot and got rapidly development in the higher education field of the world. In a sense, the essence and ultimate purpose of the existing and development of OER is effective sharing and utilization of it. How to facilitate the sharing and utilization of OER among the society is one of the key issues in the OER research and development area at present. This paper, based on the literature research and web search methods, has studied the present status of utilization of OER and related researches, analyzed the challenges or problems in OER’s sharing and using, and put forward a series of strategies which are expected to facilitate the effective utilization of OER from the three perspectives of technology, mechanism, and pedagogy.

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    Qing Chen

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  1. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, 12 Cain Road, Hong Kong, China

    Philip Tsang

  2. Open University of hong Kong, 30 Good Shepherd Street, Homantin, Hong Kong, China

    Simon K. S. Cheung

  3. School of Continuing and Professional Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China

    Victor S. K. Lee

  4. Knowledge Science & Engineering Institute, School of Education Technology, Beijing Normal University, Xinjiekouwai Ave. 19, 100875, Beijing, China

    Ronghuai Huang

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Chen, Q. (2010). Use of Open Educational Resources: Challenges and Strategies. In: Tsang, P., Cheung, S.K.S., Lee, V.S.K., Huang, R. (eds) Hybrid Learning. ICHL 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6248. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14657-2_31

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