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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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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

iSpring Learn – Not open source, and started out as an authoring tool (still core business), which has an LMS. I’ve written in the past about the pluses and minuses of open source systems, which includes the idea that free is very misleading. Here is a sampling of those vendors on the (“Alternative to Moodle).

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Open educational practices

Learning with e's

You see, the idea behind open practices is that anyone can gain access for free, at any time and in any place - courses, software, ideas, knowledge, people. Some are having to change their business models. Tags: creative commons Open content OER Google MOOC OEP open scholarship. But things are changing slowly.

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

Learning with e's

Why should publishers charge so much money for access to important great ideas, new findings and vital knowledge that can make the difference in people's lives? Other business models involve advertising and/or sponsorship. Tags: EURODL IRRODL blogs OER social media open access journal TOJDE. Why should knowledge be a commodity?

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Open all hours #EDEN15

Learning with e's

In a previous interview I conducted with him, Weller emphasised the idea that openness is a philosophy that can pervade all educational practice. Weller asked whether the idea of education being broken is now being monetised by the big edu-businesses and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

And probably will get some more ideas from the Big Question - Predictions and Plans for 2010. However, for people who are in the business of learning solutions , there are going to be growing opportunities to differentiate with content and solutions accessible from more devices. Do a search on something like “instructional design”.

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Online Educa Berlin 2014 Conference Review #OEB14

eLearning 24-7

Then again, the idea of spending ungodly amount of euros for Coca-Cola at my hotel, seemed like a good idea too. If you are an e-learning vendor in the higher education space and doing or planning on doing business in Europe, this is the place to be. What you expected heat wave? Beep.Beep.Beep. OEB 2014 Review. Absolutely.