Open Education Week is an annual global initiative that aims to raise awareness of the benefits of implementing open-ended educational resources and practices, and this year takes place from March 6 to 10.
Open Education Resources (OER) are any type of educational material freely available for users to use, adapt, share and reuse. (David Wiley, Lumen Learning).
There are numerous benefits of adapting, adopting, and producing OERs which include:
Precarious Creativity by
At free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.org to learn more. Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others. The authors take on pressing conceptual and methodological issues while also providing insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regarding creativity, collaboration, exploitation, and cultural difference. Furthermore, it examines working conditions and organizing efforts on all six continents, offering broad-ranging and comprehensive analysis of contemporary screen media labor in such places as Lagos, Prague, Hollywood, and Hyderabad. The collection also examines labor conditions across a range of job categories that includes, for example, visual effects, production services, and adult entertainment. With contributions from such leading scholars as John Caldwell, Vicki Mayer, Herman Gray, and Tejaswini Ganti, Precarious Creativity offers timely critiques of media globalization while also intervening in broader debates about labor, creativity, and precarity.
Atlas of European Values:Change and continuity in turbulent times by Why Open Education Matters from Blink Tower on Vimeo.
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