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Open all OERs

Learning with e's

Dr Stella Anthony (Australian Universities Network for Quality Assurance) gave the opening presentation for the event, and spoke about the opportunities and challenges of OERs in higher education. The panel agreed that it did matter, but that many OERs are generally well presented anyway. I touched on the synergy between Web 2.0

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Moving Microlearning to the Cloud

Ed App

Microlearning through open educational resources (OERs) is one of the facets of learning that is fast gaining traction among people. The focus of this system is to deliver customized OERs as microlearning nuggets to satisfy the real-time needs of learners. The Challenges. This is where cloud computing helps.

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Understanding the Importance of Educational Content Licensing for Schools and Institutions

Kitaboo

Open Educational Resources (OER): OER refers to educational materials that are freely available for use, often under licenses that allow for modification and redistribution. It’s like creating this big, supportive web where everyone, from teachers to students, can grow and learn together.

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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. A clue is it notes “Pricing” on its web site – oh and not open source. Sites that Point to Open Source Systems.

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Giving it all away

Learning with e's

How much do you freely share on the Web? If you are a user of any Web 2.0 My digital footprint grows each time I post new content, whether it's on this blog, one of my Flickr accounts, or YouTube, Facebook , LinkedIn or Slideshare. Tags: creative commons user generated content OER Picasso Web 2.0

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

Web media can be created quickly and, if designed in an open manner, can change according to the needs of learners and facilitators. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. If you know of examples, please contact me.

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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. Now, for the pessimists out there – Do you remember back to the really early days of the web? Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium.