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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

Moodle Alternatives according to some sites . Type in Moodle Alternatives on a search engine, and a slew of sites pop up. Here is a sampling of those vendors on the (“Alternative to Moodle). And yes, saying Moodle alternatives and then listing Moodle itself first, is weird. . It is all fee-based. . Not so much.

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Strategic Partnerships in Publishing: A Game Changer for Authors

Kitaboo

The rise of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and freely accessible online learning materials provides cost-effective alternatives to traditional textbooks and thus serves a broader student demographic, including those seeking continuous learning beyond formal degrees.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs. Don’t all these people deserve a better education? The former is the subject of such disdain.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs. Don’t all these people deserve a better education? The former is the subject of such disdain.

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

that have paid, professional editors, writers are better quality than alternatives for the specific content that they cover. When you produce advertising for massive distribution on network TV, you can afford to spend a lot of time and money to produce the ads. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. eLearning Technology.

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Disruptive Educational Research Conference in India

Jay Cross

the emergence of network based, collaborative, social, informal and community-led approaches to learning) and Simulations & Serious Games (being able to seriously use these advanced learning tools at strategic scale). MOOCs, OER University, Stanford AI. Finally fulfilling the dream has me totally jazzed.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

The example they cite sounds like actually hacking – but I believe that we are going to see more and more employees taking initiative to end run the barriers in order to leverage networks, communities, and tools that extend beyond the boundaries of the organization. Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium.