Universitas Terbuka (UT) OER was officially established in 2012 when UT enacted the policy to adopt creative common licenses. The initiatives of UT OER however have commenced much earlier since 2010 by a number of departments at UT. Those initiatives were built under various platforms but they mostly used web-based applications. This OER platform is created without meta-data which is unable to be systematically restored therefore the retrievals of the OER are entirely based on web queries. This platform limits sharing capability due to the absence of the meta-data. In 2012, OER Asia was committed to expand the access and networking among the OER Asia members as well as global. The strategic alliances of OER Asia with the Ariadne and the Globe have produced a common OER Asia platform to be able to share metadata. As a member of OER Asia, UT attempted to harmonize the UT OER by adopting Open Access Initiatives. The paper discusses the transformation process including capacity building and OER governance.
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Proceedings of the 2nd Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources: Beyond Advocacy, Research and Policy (24-27 June 2014; Penang, Malaysia)
Harmonising Universitas Terbuka's OER platform: increasing access and sharing capability
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