Kitaboo

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Open Educational Resources (OER): OER refers to educational materials that are freely available for use, often under licenses that allow for modification and redistribution. These networks facilitate the exchange of licensed educational materials. It enables others to share and use the content within the defined parameters.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

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. Over time, content providers will supplement their core offerings with live webinars, interactive exercises, discussion forums, wikis, social networks etc.

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 19, 2024

The rise of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and freely accessible online learning materials provides cost-effective alternatives to traditional textbooks and thus serves a broader student demographic, including those seeking continuous learning beyond formal degrees.

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Authoring Games Diversity Training eBook 52

Kitaboo

JANUARY 31, 2024

Online communities and professional networks enable educators to connect, exchange ideas, and learn from each other. On a short note, KITABOO actively promotes open educational resources (OERs) , making high-quality learning materials freely available to all.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

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. Over time, content providers will supplement their core offerings with live webinars, interactive exercises, discussion forums, wikis, social networks etc.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 25, 2014

The OER movement was the trigger for the MOOCs then. Many smart employees who have invested time and effort in building their own learning networks are turning to their PLNs (Personal Learning Networks) for help at the point of need. None of this is new information or insight. Into this space enters MOOCs!

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PKM OER Diversity Training Trust 157

Learning with e's

OCTOBER 30, 2011

There is no mention for example of the New Zealand based OER University (or its founder Wayne McIntosh) and the ground breaking work they are doing to transform open educational practices in higher education. Kamenetz eulogises over blogs which she describes as nodes in a vast, informal network of learning and opportunity.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 30, 2010

In it I will try to outline some of the benefits I can see in its use for individual learners, teachers, institutions (schools, colleges, universities), professional networks, and communities of practice. I will be interested to hear the feedback from my audience when I present on Monday.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

When you produce advertising for massive distribution on network TV, you can afford to spend a lot of time and money to produce the ads. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. They can't afford to go into depth in niche areas because the costs would be too high for the return. Harold is drawing a parallel with Advertising.

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Free OCW LearnTrends OER 107

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 22, 2021

ELMSLN – ELMS Learning Network. OER – Open Educational Resources exist and there are plenty to choose from, which you can add to your system. Granted, you can do this with a commercial system too, but most folks use OER with an open source learning systems. Open edX community. . Chamilo – It exists.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 29, 2014

Managing/facilitating communities and networks – IMHO, learning in the workplace will increasingly take place in communities – these could be communities of interest, communities of practice, or even communities formed out of project groups. All of this doesn’t happen overnight and requires time to set in place.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

the emergence of network based, collaborative, social, informal and community-led approaches to learning) and Simulations & Serious Games (being able to seriously use these advanced learning tools at strategic scale). MOOCs, OER University, Stanford AI. Finally fulfilling the dream has me totally jazzed. New forms of assessments.

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Research Education OER Conference 61

Learning with e's

JUNE 16, 2010

We also talked about 'netiquette' - acceptable behaviour in online environments, and how people use Facebook and other social networking tools appropriately and innapropriately, and the implications. Tags: University of Plymouth TEL OER iTunesU online submission computer aide assessment FaceBook digital identity.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 23, 2010

Increasingly academics are making their ideas freely available on blogs, social networks and other sharing sites. Tags: copyright online publishing OER intellectual property open scholarship. Fortunately, most of those I encounter are open, generous and eager to share their ideas with anyone who is interested. Don't misundertand me.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

The example they cite sounds like actually hacking – but I believe that we are going to see more and more employees taking initiative to end run the barriers in order to leverage networks, communities, and tools that extend beyond the boundaries of the organization. Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium.

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Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

Learning with e's

JULY 19, 2010

David Sadler, Director of Networks at the Higher Education Academy, says: “This event will share the experiences of the pilot projects which, since early 2009, have been working to make thousands of resources freely available through the UK OER programme, leading to a more positive student learning experience.

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2010

The television cameras from a premier African TV network captured the proceedings. I'm very pleased to have been there to see the birth of this excellent new network of professionals and academics. Tags: Sir John Daniel Commonwealth of Learning Virtual University OER Namibia. We all stood for the Namibian national anthem.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

An online phenomenon gathering momentum over the past two years or so, a MOOC integrates the connectivity of social networking, the facilitation of an acknowledged expert in a ?eld Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Networked Learning, Aalborg, Denmark. Open All the Way: MOOCs, OER, and Open Education.

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Pedagogy Social Networks Distance Learning Diversity Training 65

Learning with e's

DECEMBER 15, 2007

I'm just back this evening from 'The Networks, Communities and Learning: Show that you Share' conference hosted at the University of Utrecht, Holland by the Bazaar Network. Tags: PLE Meta tagging University of Utrecht Bazaar OER inter-operability. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2009

As Tony Karrer explains , we are using what is happening: with the content out in the network. OERs shining light, new textbook model, or harbinger of a new imperialism. Communities and Networks Connection and RSS. The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account. on the eLearning Learning.

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 9, 2014

One of the sessions I was in, was a blogger session which included Stephen Downes, a foremost expert on OER (Open Educational Resources). Stephen is really a sharp guy and in my opinion is one of the very few folks who has a finger on the pulse of OER, including MOOCs.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

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. link] February 21-25, 2011 Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Meeting, 31 st , Hong Kong, China.

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eLearning Learning Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Other terms that i can identify with are Dave Cormier’s ‘ Community as Curriculum ‘ approach and Wendy Drexler’s elucidation of Networked learning in the ‘ Networked student model ‘ ( video ). PLE - “My PLE is where I store all my “keys” to the network. concerning OER.

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Blended Learning PLE Text-to-Speech eLearning Consultant 98

eLearning Learning Posts

MARCH 16, 2010

6 Reasons To Use Amplify for Collaborative Learning - The Writers Gateway , March 8, 2010 I recently came across this website called Amplify that works just like Twitter and other social networking sites. Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network , March 4, 2010 Educase piece. Good stuff. Nothing new here. March 1, 2010.

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Blended Learning Compliance Training Authoring Tools Instructional Design 43

Learning with e's

JANUARY 29, 2012

I touched on personal learning networks, mobile technologies, games and gamification, the use of social media in learning, the role of user generated content, the phenomenon of ubiquitous connection, and technological convergence.

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Digital Social Media Slideshare Creative Commons 83

Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This will be done by creating a growing network of partners who have enough influence and reach to create the critical mass with which the Open Educational Resources movement will gain purchase. We WILL provide free education for all, he declared.

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License Creative Commons Forum Reputation 86

ID Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2016

The more I reflect, the more I strongly feel that the sustainability of an organization depends on giving up control and letting the network do the work. Curate from existing sources – Tap into MOOCs, and other existing OERs. This fundamental principle lies at the heart of the success of Uber as well.

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Mark Oehlert

AUGUST 24, 2007

Ive been tinkering with Many Eyes over the last couple of weeks as a way of exploring potential visual navigation tools/interfaces for Open University courses and qualifications, and OpenLearn OERs/course units: [link] and search for "many eyes". Visit Serious Games - The Serious Games Networking Portal. Blog Information. Categories.

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Learning Styles Wiki Social Bookmarking Authoring Tools 32

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

2b2k] MOOCs as networks. Adapting to a networked world HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011. MOOCs , OER University, Stanford AI. patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks. MORE >> 154 Tweets.

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Predictions Internet Open Education 92

ID Reflections

JUNE 26, 2014

MOOCs on various topics can be set up using blended content – some custom designed and some re-purposed from OERs and other available content from the net as long as one takes care to note the various IPR-related policies. MOOCs enable building of PLNs (Personal Learning Networks).

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Diversity Training OCW Online Course 271

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 Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, USA. [link] December 3-7, 2012 Computer Security Applications Conference , 28 th , annual, Orlando, Florida, USA.

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eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Diversity Training 238

Learning with e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

To help achieve this vision, Mackintosh is setting up the OER University and is evangelistic in his elucidation of this concept. There is growing presence and force behind this vision, and as the OER movement gains traction and impetus, we should expect to see some changes in the way universities offer their programmes of study.

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Games OER Authoring Tools License 75

ID Reflections

MARCH 1, 2012

At a time when organizations were investing in formal, top downtraining programs, a vestige of the Industrial Era and Taylorist ideas of productivityimprovement, Cross, Marcia Conner and a few others were busy advocatinginformal learning, workscaping, the power of social tools and the importance ofbuilding one’s personal learning network.

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Education OER Communities of Practice Conference 161