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March Big Question - Open Content in Workplace Learning

eLearning Cyclops

This month's Big Question is "how do we leverage open content in workplace learning?" To learn more about about some of opportunities available in open content, I visited the sites listed on the Big Question post. These were OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Despite their pedagogical flaws, however, MOOCs provide unprecedented access to quality content for millions of learners. And isn’t content sourced from some of the world’s best providers a giant leap in that direction? It’s how the teacher uses that content to support learning that will make the difference.

OER 279
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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Despite their pedagogical flaws, however, MOOCs provide unprecedented access to quality content for millions of learners. And isn’t content sourced from some of the world’s best providers a giant leap in that direction? It’s how the teacher uses that content to support learning that will make the difference.

OER 224
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What if they threw a party and none of us came?

Learning with e's

As Brian Lamb said recently at the Open Educational Resources Symposium, it seems perverse to hoard knowledge in any form, particularly in the light of the current economic crisis. Many of my academic colleagues are now refusing to publish in standard publications, preferring to throw their lot in with the open access journals.

Journal 86
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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

link] or [link] December 1, 2010 UNESCO-Commonwealth of Learning Policy Form on Open Educational Resources (OER): Taking OER beyond the OER Community – Policy and Capacity, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France. Charles, Missouri, USA. link] February 14-17, 2011 Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Or, if you are in Dr. Scratch Computer vs. Panda3D is Open Source and free for any purpose, including commercial ventures. Stoatly Different , September 27, 2010 On Friday I was lucky enough to be asked to present at the eLearning Networks “Learning Beyond The Course” Conference. Learning is, I think, a highly creative activity.

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Future of Higher Education – Digital Textbooks and Courses

MagicBox

Universities are also benefiting from technology as they are able to adopt elearning trends such as contextual learning, two-way conversational learning, using video as a means of informative content, and enhancing use of all available data. Consumer e-books alone are projected to generate nearly 20 billion U.S. billion in 2016.