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Open all OERs

Learning with e's

Time to reflect on the Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) workshop on Open Educational Resources, which was held in Windhoek, Namibia this week. Dr Stella Anthony (Australian Universities Network for Quality Assurance) gave the opening presentation for the event, and spoke about the opportunities and challenges of OERs in higher education.

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Open educational practices

Learning with e's

I spoke about Open Educational Practices, (including Open Educational Resources and Open Scholarship) a subject which I am learning more about all the time as the movement grows and gains traction. OEP requires everything to be open - for access, scrutiny and repurposing. But things are changing slowly.

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Moving Microlearning to the Cloud

Ed App

Mobile learning in massive open online courses (MOOC) is different from the traditional forms of learning as it is fragmented and heavily-dependant on collaboration. Microlearning through open educational resources (OERs) is one of the facets of learning that is fast gaining traction among people. The Challenges.

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Why Open Content is Not Yet Adopted in the Workplace

Kapp Notes

ASTD's Big Question for March is How do we leverage open content in workplace learning? One of the best known is MIT's Open Courseware project. A recently posted blog at the Huffington Post titled Are Open Educational Resources at the Tipping Point or the Tripping Point? Many organizations are involved with such initiatives.

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Open Content and the Workplace

There Is No Chalk

This month's Learning Circuits Big Q is about open content and the workplace:How do we leverage Open Content in Workplace Learning? Tony Karrer gives a couple examples of open content stores for adult education, such as the OER Commons and the Open Courseware Consortium.

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Opening spaces, open learning

Learning with e's

I'm enjoying the workshop on Open Educational Resources (OER) here in Windhoek, Namibia. Today, the workshop for Quality Assurance Agencies is addressing the concept of OERs and how they can be quality assured. Sir John Daniel spoke this morning about the barriers to Open Content and listed three.

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Opening doors

Learning with e's

This just in from JISC: Speaking ahead of next week's Open Educational Resources symposium, Brian Lamb from the University of British Columbia urges higher education to show leadership in difficult times. To register for the International Open Educational Resources Symposium on 23 July 2010 please go to www.jisc.ac.uk/ukoer10

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