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OER for Precedent

CourseArc

OER for Precedent. Take the movement for Open Educational Resources, or OER, for example. Based on the idea of open access, OER is the free, immediate, online use of available research articles with re-use rights. Open access and OER makes content available for anyone anywhere in the world to read, access and build upon.

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The Rise of OER and Digital Textbooks in Higher Education

Kitaboo

We’ve moved from traditional print textbooks to digital ones and even to Open Educational Resource s (OER). Among the big trends in higher education textbooks , using OER and digital textbooks stands out. The Emergence and Scope of Open Educational Resources OER and Digital Textbooks II. How to Use OER?

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Open all hours #EDEN15

Learning with e's

Openness then becomes mainstream, is adapted and adopted by the big companies. We are now at the stage where at least 50% of academics have published in open access journals (Stats from Wiley), an there is a growth in Open Educational Resources including OER Commons , with many universities now providing free content.

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Advantages of using OER in K-12 Education

Hurix Digital

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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Digital learning futures

Learning with e's

During my talk, I discussed a number of possible scenarios that might result when wholesale adoption of digital technologies occurs in education and training. Digital learning futures by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Here's to all the possible futures of learning!

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Top 40 eLearning Articles and 5 Hot Topics for Early March

eLearning Learning Posts

Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? Why Open Content is Not Yet Adopted in the Workplace , March 9, 2010. Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? Noncommercial Isn’t the Problem, ShareAlike Is , March 11, 2010.

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Digital Textbooks Revolutionizing Higher Education: A 2024 Guide

Kitaboo

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. However, the steadily rising adoption of digital textbooks offers a more affordable and flexible alternative.

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