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Innovative OER Model for Technology-Enhanced Academic and Entrepreneurial Learning

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In today’s globalized, networked and fast-changing environment, knowledge became invaluable asset for everyone—students, workers and organizations. Lifelong learning became crucial to the future of our society. In order to foster more effective and collaborative learning and knowledge exchange it is necessary to utilize modern information technologies and services. If used in the right way, information technology can transform and energize educational process, stimulate learning in anyplace and anytime, promote creative thinking and make better use of existing individual and organizational resources. Although modern web technologies and open educational resources (OER) have great potential to bring new opportunities for learning and knowledge exchange, at the same time, developing successful OER systems is very challenging. Design of an innovative and open learning software environment needs a holistic approach, which comprises specific methodology, software architecture, and various services, applications and tools. The rationale of this chapter is to introduce the innovative open educational model and supporting software system that is capable to answer the major challenges of modern education. The proposed OER model and software platform enables creation of agile and adaptable educational ecosystem that can transform the learning experience, and connect individuals, educational institutions and companies.

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Acknowledgments

Research presented in this paper was supported by Ministry of Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia, Grant III-44010, Title: Intelligent Systems for Software Product Development and Business Support based on Models and by the TEMPUS Project—BAEKTEL (Blending Academic and Entrepreneurial Knowledge in Technology Enhanced Learning)—No. 544482.

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  1. Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Svetog Save 65, Cacak, Serbia

    Nenad Stefanovic & Danijela Milosevic

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  2. Athabasca University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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  3. The Arab League Educational Cultural and Scientific Organization, Tunis, Tunisia

    Mohamed Koutheair Khribi

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Stefanovic, N., Milosevic, D. (2017). Innovative OER Model for Technology-Enhanced Academic and Entrepreneurial Learning. In: Jemni, M., Kinshuk, Khribi, M. (eds) Open Education: from OERs to MOOCs. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52925-6_17

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