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#OEB13 Post Review

eLearning 24-7

And with that, comes my post assessment of Online Educa Berlin 2013. As for the SPOCS (the newest entry to the whole OER (Open educational resources) world) – I saw no mention of it. But I did hear mention of OER via attendees and a couple of vendors. MOOCs were low as well. Products that Intrigued. Pebble Pad.

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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

Kitaboo

Educational publishers, who till now had a steady stream of income compared to non-educational book publishers, due to the recurring need for textbooks every year by students, are now gradually shifting towards digital publishing. Over the past 30-40 years, textbook prices have increased by more than 1000%. a semester.

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The Making of a Future-proof Online Learning Program for Colleges & Universities

Hurix Digital

A good approach is to identify the concepts that faculties and instructors want the students to learn, determine suitable ways to assess their learning, and then develop the course material and activities to achieve that. These sources include open educational sources (OERs). Derive course content from multiple sources.

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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. . Highlights.

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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

link] or [link] December 1, 2010 UNESCO-Commonwealth of Learning Policy Form on Open Educational Resources (OER): Taking OER beyond the OER Community – Policy and Capacity, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France. link] December 6-8, 2010 Assessing Quality in Higher Education , 3 rd international conference, Lahore, Pakistan.

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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 7-10, 2013 Institute for the Development of Excellence in Assessment Leadership , organized by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Tampa, Florida, USA.