scholarly journals Re-energizing VHS Collections, Expanding Knowledge: A Conversation about VHS Archives

Author(s):  
Alexandra Juhasz ◽  
Jennifer McCoy

Scholars, activists, researchers, and artists of a certain age and inclination are burdened with a soon-to-be-obsolete but always-beloved, carefully tended but perhaps recently quieted collection that most likely sits on an office shelf gaining dust: their VHS Archive. Not a personal collection, but a professional one of continuing or even growing value if not usability, this archive has been lovingly built and used, probably over decades, for teaching and research and in support of the movements and issues that have mattered most to the collector. With the help of an Open Education Resources grant from CUNY we built an online teaching resource for a graduate course that would focus on just twelve of these tapes. We hope that the course and its lasting website asks, and will offer some answers about, best practices for reactivating knowledge that might be endangered due to medium obsolescence, and other broader cultural factors of forgetting.

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1&2) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B. Mugimu

This article presents findings of action research during the creation and dissemination process of open education resources (OERs) to support pre-service and in-service teachers in Uganda and other African countries. It highlights the perceptions of teachers and the authoring team of the impact of their involvement in materials creation and dissemination on their practice and professional growth. It also presents lessons learned during the development and implementation process and the best practices for replicating this outreach program in Uganda and beyond. This article also shares insights into how the OERs can boost or contribute to effective teaching and learning especially in under-resourced school situations in Africa, and also shares experiences on best practices on creating the authoring team of OERs.


2015 ◽  
pp. 1446-1453
Author(s):  
Lindy Klein

This chapter explores the possibilities for Open Education Resources (OERs) to be developed in ways that allow independent, self-directed adult learners to engage with the resources with the use of their own learning contexts. Using examples of open education resources currently available from some of the better-known OER providers, the author seeks to demonstrate what is currently available. The chapter then explores ways in which open education and OERs can be further developed to support varying and changing learner contexts.


2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Berland ◽  
K. Capone ◽  
L. Etcher ◽  
H. Ewing ◽  
S. Keating ◽  
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