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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 "Social Software and Open Education Resources:
Terry Anderson is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University. He has published widely in the area of distance education and educational technology and has co-authored or edited five books and numerous papers. Terry is active in provincial, national, and international distance education associations and a regular presenter at professional conferences. He teaches educational technology courses in Athabasca’s Masters of Distance Education program. Terry is also the director of CIDER – the Canadian Institute for Distance Education Research (cider.athabascau.ca) and the editor of the International Review of Research on Distance and Open Learning (IRRODL www.irrodl.org). The complete text of his most recent edited book The Theory and Practice of Online Learning is available as an Open Access resource at cde.athabascau.ca/online_book
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Open Education Resources (OERs) promise to radically reduce the cost of educational content production. Yet early research shows less than optimal pickup or sharing of production by either distance or campus educators. Can social software tools provide the tools and supportive communities needed for effective OER production, use and re-use? Can educators as both producers and users of OERs develop the types of sophisticated networking tools used by Open Source Software development to create world class learning resources?