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The Rise of OER and Digital Textbooks in Higher Education

Kitaboo

Future Trends of Open Educational Resources OER and Digital Textbooks Increased Adoption Improved Interactivity Personalized Learning Integration with Learning Management Systems (LMS) V. Open educational resources focus on providing high-quality content to higher education learners rather than focusing on providing educational services.

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Teacher beliefs

Learning with e's

Teacher beliefs about pedagogy are central to the successful integration of new technologies into schools. The extent to which they see technology skills as relevant and valuable directly relates to the extent to which these skills are practised and applied in their work. New technology really has to be shown to be relevant and useful.

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How can we engage online learners?

Learning with e's

Photo by Filip Mroz on unsplash In my first post in this blog series I outlined the changes taking place in schools due to the adoption of online forms of education. Quantity was more important than quality, because a rapid population of new digital spaces was deemed to be expedient - the pedagogy could wait. This strategy didn't work.

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Power sharing

Learning with e's

Christian argues that much of the change we are currently witnessing in teaching methods is driven by new technologies. Will they expect their professors to continue to take the lead in delivering knowledge, or will they readily adopt the role of co-creators of knowledge? He identifies. ".an Unported License.

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Five tools for global educators

Learning with e's

Recently I have been considering the changing role of teachers who are adopting technology to extend the walls of the classroom. In effect, through the use of social media and telecommunication technologies, these teachers are becoming global educators. I am sure others will have different preferences or recommendations to make.

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Goodbye

Learning with e's

Video and podcasts are ways that I considered adopting to replace blogging, but these carry just as heavy time a commitment and I would still be vulnerable to abuse from trolls. On a positive note, I have enjoyed the creative impetus that blogging has provided me, even though it has been painful. But is that enough? This is the end.

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A tale of two keynotes

Learning with e's

‘May you live in interesting times’ (Old Chinese curse) We live in tumultuous times where change is constant and disruptive and where technologies are increasingly pervasive throughout society. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. Wheeler, 2000a).