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Learner Resources in the Digital Age

BrainCert

Organizations and individuals host webinars on topics such as business, technology, and personal development. Open Educational Resources (OERs): Open Educational Resources are freely accessible educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and more.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses. No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles. 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.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses. No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles. 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.

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

Learning with e's

Before anyone points out the fact that paper based journal cost money to produce, edit, review, print and distribute, I want to make the following points: Most academic journals are run by academics on a voluntary basis - those who review for my journal don't get paid a penny.

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Open educational practices

Learning with e's

So whether it's licensing agreements such as Copyleft or Creative Commons, or open access journals, or even massively online open courses, the open educational practices are gaining ground and influence in the academic world. The publishing houses who once had a strangle hold on academic journals are beginning to lose their grip.

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Open all hours #EDEN15

Learning with e's

We are now at the stage where at least 50% of academics have published in open access journals (Stats from Wiley), an there is a growth in Open Educational Resources including OER Commons , with many universities now providing free content.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Wikis in eLearning 2.0 - Learning with e’s , September 12, 2010 The latest issue of the journal Interactive Learning Environments is a special issue entitled: Towards eLearning 2.0 If you’re like me, you’ve probably been busy, as well. Reusing eLearning material (OER) from other sources or not, asks UNESCO. concerning OER.