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Cost-Effective Training: Leveraging Free Tools and Resources

Learning Rebels

How to integrate OER’s into current programs: Use as supplemental materials: Incorporate free textbooks, articles, and videos to enhance existing modules. Resource Sharing and Content Curation Community resource platforms such as BookStack make it easy to share and curate learning materials, such as articles, videos, and tutorials.

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Pick of the Month: July 2012

Jane Hart

July was chock full of great articles and blog posts so here are just some of the articles that I bookmarked – together with a snippet from each which showed you why they caught my eye. On 6 July, an article in ZD-Net, It’s the digital dawn of open online learning , asked. 1 – Change in Higher education.

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Can Higher Education Afford Innovation?

The Learning Circuits

A colleague of mine who is headed to business school sent me this article , in which Robert F. Is what iTunes and Netflix did for music and movies bad? Can media forms like music and movies be equated with institutions? Can media forms like music and movies be equated with institutions? What was that, again?

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Why Academic Publishing is Destroying Civilization

Usable Learning

I was trying to look at an academic article the other day, and it was $30 for a 24-hr subscription to a fairly random, 15-yr old article. But do the math — would you rather have: 3 people paying $30 / article = $90. 100 people paying $3 / article = $300. Um, excuse me, but wtf? What is this accomplishing?

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The changing shape of the internet

Clive on Learning

Chris Anderson’s article The web is dead: long live the internet , in the August edition of Wired magazine, has attracted a lot of attention, including mine, but for many the title of the article would mean very little.

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10 Things the Motorola Xoom does Better than the iPad

mLearning Revolution

Notifications include Twitter mentions, Facebook updates, new e-mail, music playing or paused, remaining battery, wifi connections, as well as an option for getting to more Settings, etc. On the iPad, every time there’s an iOS update, you absolutely have to connect it to iTunes in order to download and install the update.

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LEP/LXP RFP Template

eLearning 24-7

The unknown of course is when a person goes to a web site to read an article, whether the system can tell if they actually read the whole article or skimmed it, or was on the site for like five seconds. Degreed for example, can only tell you that the person went to that site (to read that article). I’ve seen it. .

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