Open Educational Practices: a learning way beyond free access knowledge

Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM) Resources in a Team-Based Learning Educational Series

Although Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM) has become popular within emergency medicine, concerns exist regarding its role in resident education. We sought to develop an educational intervention whereby residents could review FOAM resources while maintaining faculty oversight. We created a novel curriculum pairing FOAM from the Academic Life in Emergence Medicine (ALiEM) Approved Instru...

Beyond open access

Nursing Open is an open access, pay to publish journal which is dedicated to the highest standards in open access publishing. We believe that authors should have the opportunity to make their work freely available to others to download and read, with the ensuing benefits that this entails, both for readers and authors. However, open access opens up further possibilities that are not always avai...

Open Access EDITORIAL Causal Learning Beyond Causal Judgment: An Overview

Most research articles studying how people learn to detect causal relationships in their environments commence with some sort of example to illustrate the relevance of causality in our daily lives. These examples allude to routine problems faced by doctors, economists, social psychologists, and others and emphasize the importance of deepening our understanding of causal reasoning. But despite t...

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Wayfinding Services for Open Educational Practices

To choose suitable resources for personal competence development in the vast amount of open educational resources is a challenging task for a learner. Starting with a needs analysis of lifelong learners and learning designers we introduce two wayfinding services that are currently researched and developed in the framework of the Integrated Project TENCompetence. Then we discuss the role of thes...