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AM-OER: An Agile
Method for the Development of Open Educational Resources. INFORMATICS IN EDUCATION.
15. 205-233. 10.15388/infedu.2016.11. Open Educational Resources have emerged as
important elements of education in the contemporary society, promoting life-long
and personalized learning that transcends social, economic and geographical
barriers. To achieve the potential of OERs and bring impact on education, it is
necessary to increase their development and supply. However, one of the current
challenges is how to produce quality and relevant OERs to be reused and adapted to
different contexts and learning situations. In this paper we proposed an agile
method for the development of OERs - AM-OER, grounded on agile practices from
Software Engineering. Learning Design practices from the OULDI project (UK Open
University) are also embedded into the AM-OER aiming at improving quality and
facilitating reuse and adaptation of OERs. In order to validate AM-OER, an
experiment was conducted by applying it in the development of an OER on software
testing. The results showed preliminary evidences on the applicability,
effectiveness and efficiency of the method in the development of OERs.