Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Metadata: The Future of Textbook Access and Usability

According to Baumann in "E-books: A New School of Thought," the average public university student spends $1,222 on textbooks (as part of the nearly $26,273 the same student spends annually to attend a public four-year college or university).2 Another big advantage of using the OER, compare...

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Published inTechnicalities Vol. 31; no. 1; p. 10
Main Author Adamich, Tom
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Prairie Village Media Periodicals Division, The Kansas City Gardener, Inc 01.01.2011
Subjects
Distance learning
Higher education
Learning
Metadata
Online instruction
Textbooks
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ISSN0272-0884

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Summary:According to Baumann in "E-books: A New School of Thought," the average public university student spends $1,222 on textbooks (as part of the nearly $26,273 the same student spends annually to attend a public four-year college or university).2 Another big advantage of using the OER, compared to a more traditional educational resource, is its modular structure - that ability, as mentioned earlier, to be utilized as a part or piece in order to address a specific educational need or effectively represent a particular concept. According to the "Comparison of Metadata of THECB [Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board] and Other Learning Object Repositories," the Orange Grove Digital Repository uses the aforementioned Southern Regional Education Board's SCORE documentation.8 SCORE is based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Draft Standard for Learning Object Metadata (LOM) - a Dublin Core derivative - and uses IEEE LOM and Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) controlled vocabularies as sources for subject terms.
ISSN:0272-0884