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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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Learner Resources in the Digital Age

BrainCert

In this blog, we'll explore the myriad of learner resources available in the digital age and how they can help you stay informed and engaged. Organizations and individuals host webinars on topics such as business, technology, and personal development.

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

I was surprised at the number of directories, sites noting open source “free” systems, blog posts and so on, that listed what they viewed as “free systems” tied around open source. iSpring Learn – Not open source, and started out as an authoring tool (still core business), which has an LMS.

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

In the Business of Learning , I compared publishing and learning. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. Leverage the actions that go along with free learning to add value back into the organization.

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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. Other business models involve advertising and/or sponsorship. What if the publishers all went over to solely online publishing?

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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

ID Reflections

The OER movement was the trigger for the MOOCs then. Refer to Harold Jarche’ blog for a deeper understanding of PKM. When George Siemens , Dave Cormier and Stephen Downes came up with the concept in 2008, they had a vision of how a “learning design” based on Connectivism could change the face of learning and collaboration.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

I actually think this is some of the most valuable stuff on my blog, and I believe that most knowledge workers are not really taking advantage of this at the level they should. Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium. It somewhat codifies what I discuss around Work Literacy – although there’s much more to it.