Learning with e's

AUGUST 23, 2010

People are entitled to be acknowledged for their contribution to knowledge. What I am opposed to is the idea that knowledge can be traded as a commodity. Finally, Google Books, Scholar and other web based services are undermining the foundations of the elite knowledge brokers. Unported License. Don't misundertand me.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You see, the idea behind open practices is that anyone can gain access for free, at any time and in any place - courses, software, ideas, knowledge, people. It's not going to be easy to change a model where knowledge has become a commodity though. And open access journals are opening up knowledge for all without payment.

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Learning with e's

JULY 24, 2010

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. Why should knowledge be a commodity? We should make our knowledge freely available to anyone who wants to read it using free and open services.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2015

He traced a brief history of Openness: It starts with a belief in openness that is for the public good - leading to democratisation of knowledge. Photo by Steve Wheeler Open all hours #EDEN15 by Steve Wheeler was written in Barcelona, Spain and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Hurix Digital

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

What Are Open Educational Resources (OER)? Open educational resources or OER are teaching, research, and learning resources that are available in the public domain for free use. OER carries the GNU or Creative Commons license that permits them to be revised, repurposed, remixed, and redistributed at no cost to the user.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 29, 2012

I also discussed pedagogical issues such as deep and surface learning, creative thinking and the transformation of knowledge consumption. Digital learning futures by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Here's to all the possible futures of learning!

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Digital Social Media Slideshare Creative Commons 83

Kitaboo

JULY 24, 2023

External links in the eBooks enable students to build on their knowledge and develop an in-depth understanding of the concepts. Leverage Open Educational Resources Did you know that around 65% of faculty in the world supports and favors using OERs?

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eLearning Learning Posts

MARCH 16, 2010

Social snake oil - Learning and Working on the Web , March 1, 2010 Knowledge management (KM) was a most promising field until it was hijacked by software vendors who were selling IT systems for six figures. Customers are becoming more savvy about the fact that large-scale knowledge dumps in the classroom don’t work. License (15).

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Blended Learning Compliance Training Authoring Tools Instructional Design 43

Kitaboo

MARCH 26, 2024

In this blog, we’ll be discussing higher education textbook trends of 2024, as well as exploring the impact of digital textbooks and open educational resources (OER) on higher education and the future they promise. OERs democratize education by removing costly barriers to entry and making quality content available to all students.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The laptop itself is not the inspiration, but it is certainly the gateway into inspirational experiences that lead to deep learning, and a growing awareness in the individual that they can achieve so much more as their knowledge of the world around them grows. The knowledge balance in schools, said Wolfram, is all wrong at present.

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Games OER Authoring Tools License 75

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

link] December 3-14, 2012 Open Content Licensing for Educators (#OCL4Ed), organized by the OER Foundation, offered online. link] December 10-11, 2012 International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery Using Cloud and Distributed Computing Platforms , 3 rd , Brussels, Belgium.

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eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Diversity Training 238