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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Don’t all these people deserve a better education? Moreover, I submit they are yet to wreak their full vengeance on the education industry. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Don’t all these people deserve a better education? Moreover, I submit they are yet to wreak their full vengeance on the education industry. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs.

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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. That is the 'prime directive' of the open access, open educational resources movement. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

Size Isn’t Everything – Cathy Davidson – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Forbes, on the other hand, touts the financial promise of investments in MOOC’s and other digital educational offerings. Online Learning – The Chronicle of Higher Education. MOOC Madness.

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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. www.online-educa.com December 1-3, 2010 Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture , Rome, Italy.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Presentation: “Twitter in Education, what next?” - Dont Waste Your Time , September 10, 2010 As a follow-up to my (successful?) presentation ‘ Twitter in Education &# this one looks into the uses of Twitter, rather than the tool. Twitter in Education: what next? Related posts: Presentation: Twitter in Education.

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Future of Higher Education – Digital Textbooks and Courses

MagicBox

According to the Center for Global Development , countries such as Indonesia, Philippines, South Africa, Botswana, Peru, and Jamaica are on the cusp of reaching universal primary education. Education is a critical sector to have experienced innovations in technology. Digital Publishing Aiding Universities. dollars in revenue by 2018.