Sustainable Development of OER in Higher Education through Quality Assurance.

By Matai Naisa TagicakiICT in Education TechnologistFHEC

introduction

• “Developing a culture of quality may be the best way forward rather than either advocating resources as quality products or simply promoting quality practices and quality processes.”

Paul Kawachi, CEMCA, 2013. Quality Assurance Guidelines for Open Educational Resources: TIPS Framework, is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (international): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

Digital Influence In Our Culture

What is OER

OER in Quality Assurance

1. QUALITY AS A PRODUCT

2. QUALITY AS A PROCESS

3. CREATIVE COMMONS

CONCLUSION

In our pursuit towards providing QUALITY Educational Resources to all Fiji citizens, OER offers free, accessible and Quality Resources that are

licensed under Creative Commons to which we shall ensure are processed through existing quality assurance frameworks as the National Curriculum and HEI Qualification Standards or the adoption of

Educational Resources shared by globally recognized Institutions repositories such as OER COMMONS, ISKME, UNESCO, Athabasca

University and Commonwealth of Learning. Practicing quality ensures a culture of quality.

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