Abstract
The recent economic crisis in Iceland has raised issues of the sustainability of Icelandic Higher Education to new levels of importance. The Net-University Project was an EU Leonardo-funded initiative to focus on the transfer of innovation in continuing university education. The partners concentrated on how knowledge and experience about distributed and distance learning models could be transferred between the partner countries, and how such models can be integrated into the education system to better support higher education and life-long learning. There was a particular interest in the practical use of Open Educational Resources for course design, and the sharing of these course modules across university partners. Some good practice and lessons from OER use in course design are listed.
Highlights
The Icelandic ContextIceland has a total area of 103,000 square kilometres with a population of approximately 320,000
The practical experimentation in the project led to the conclusion that while it is relatively easy to find open access resources for educational reuse, it is much more difficult to locate precise open educational resources (OER) for specific purposes within even a loosely pre-arranged course structure
From the perspective of the educator attempting to pull together a new course, there is clearly a balancing point where the skills and time needed to locate relevant OER that can be reused in a course is counterbalanced by the skills and time required to generate new educational resources from scratch
Summary
The Icelandic ContextIceland has a total area of 103,000 square kilometres with a population of approximately 320,000. To create a platform for continuing education centres and institutions in rural areas to develop university-level courses related to vocational educational needs; 5.
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