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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo

Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations.

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Innovation at the Intersection of Technology and Teaching

TechSmith Camtasia

This Google Ngram Viewer graph shows the change in popularity of the terms ‘invention’ and ‘innovation’ from 1908 to 2008. How will they benefit? There are benefits for instructors as well students and those who provide support. OER opens up all kinds of new opportunities for teaching and learning. What do people want?

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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

ID Reflections

When George Siemens , Dave Cormier and Stephen Downes came up with the concept in 2008, they had a vision of how a “learning design” based on Connectivism could change the face of learning and collaboration. The OER movement was the trigger for the MOOCs then. Into this space enters MOOCs!

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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. Conference was held July 15-18, 2008 at Durham, New Hampshire, USA. link] December ?

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195 posts about MOOCs

Jay Cross

And this is what George Siemens, Rita Kop, Dave Cormier and I have done over a series of six or so Massive Open Online Courses ( MOOCs ) since 2008. MOOCs , OER University, Stanford AI. Contributed to the UNESCO OER discussion list , February 16, 2009. STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2008.

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Corporate Training Through MOOCs: Everything You Need to Know

ProProfs

Massive open online courses (MOOCs), which date back to 2008, are a game-changing model for delivering online learning content without any limit on attendance. Most MOOCs are easily customizable since they are built using open educational resources (OERs). This is similar to the 23 million learners registered in 2016.