Fostering social inclusion through Open Educational Resources (OER)

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• Call for special issue of Distance Education: Fostering social inclusion through Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Keynote_Conole Social exclusion and Web 2.0 technologies
• Question 1. Who is using OER?
• Question 2. How are new open, social and participatory media and OER being used in learning and teaching? In what ways are they leading to social inclusion/exclusion
• Question 3. What digital literacy skills do learners and teachers need to make effective use of these technologies and resources?
• Question 4. What is the impact on organizations of these new technologies and resources?
• Question 5. How can we design OER more innovatively to harness the potential of these new technologies and resources?
• Question 6. How are the ways in which learners and teachers communicating and collaborating changing with the use of these technologies?
• Question 7. How can we create effective new digital learning environments to promote the use of OER?
• Question 8. How can informal learning using OER be assessed and accredited?
• Question 9. What kinds of policy directives are in place to promote social inclusion through the use of OER and how effective are they?
• Resources on OER and social inclusion (1 comment)