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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

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. It’s how the teacher uses that content to support learning that will make the difference. Studying on campus will become a status symbol.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

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. It’s how the teacher uses that content to support learning that will make the difference. Studying on campus will become a status symbol.

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What if they threw a party and none of us came?

Learning with e's

Some publishers, particularly those running open access journals, are reversing the business model - and offering all contents free to any reader online, whilst the authors pay to have their work published. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Tags: EURODL IRRODL blogs OER social media open access journal TOJDE.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Learning is, I think, a highly creative activity. Reusing eLearning material (OER) from other sources or not, asks UNESCO. Three reasons why I hesitate - Ignatia Webs , September 22, 2010 Unesco is inviting us to jointly discuss OER, so if you are interested, let yourself be heard! concerning OER. Subject Title Author.

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The open case

Learning with e's

This kind of dialogue is invaluable both for the readers and authors. Authors can see at a glance how many people have downloaded their abstract, or full paper, and some also track where the readership is located around the globe. Often open access journals provide online forums for discussion of the articles presented.

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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] February 4-7, 2013 e-Learning and Distance Learning : From Practice to Performance, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. link] June 2-5, 2013 Distance Learning Administration , Savannah, Georgia, USA.