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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo

According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. Although rentals are a good option approved by educational institutes, OER is yet to be widely accepted by educational institutes.

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

user seat costs), it’s free, and is configurable in such a way that connecting with any 3rd party tool or system is doable. . iSpring Learn – Not open source, and started out as an authoring tool (still core business), which has an LMS. Need an authoring tool? It is also fee-based. So that is a fee.

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Online Educa Berlin 2014 Conference Review #OEB14

eLearning 24-7

There was quite a few assessment vendors, plagerisim detection vendors (three), e-learning tools, custom content developers but more along the lines of building games and gamification, other gamification like vendors, screen recording/video capturing vendors – as in those for live presentations and ideally used for MOOCs. .

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Open all hours #EDEN15

Learning with e's

Martin Weller's keynote presentation at EDEN 2015 Conference was entitled 'The battle for open.' The open source movement emerged, with an emphasis on efficiency, and on the rights to use and modify software and tools. Finally, the emergence of Web 2.0 created and encouraged a culture of content sharing.

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eLearning Conferences 2013

Tony Karrer

link] December 3-14, 2012 Open Content Licensing for Educators (#OCL4Ed), organized by the OER Foundation, offered online. link] January 24-25, 2013 eLearning Software : Productivity Tips and Secrets, organized by the eLearning Guild, offered online. link] January 30-31, 2013 Mobile Healthcare , 9 th , Toronto, Ontario, Canada.