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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

It’s all very well for Apple-owning, organic-buying professionals to cast aspersions, but consider the girl in Pakistan who’s too scared to set foot in a classroom. As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses. Universities will finally accept they are service providers.

OER 279
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Role of L&D in the 21C Workplace

ID Reflections

It is increasingly becoming evident that L&D department in organizations can no longer function the way they used to, at least not if they want to be relevant and be a business partner to the organization. This means getting the buy-in of key stakeholders and talking the language of business.

Roles 167
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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

It’s all very well for Apple-owning, organic-buying professionals to cast aspersions, but consider the girl in Pakistan who’s too scared to set foot in a classroom. As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses. Universities will finally accept they are service providers.

OER 224
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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

ID Reflections

The OER movement was the trigger for the MOOCs then. Most organizations (hopefully) have accepted that learning is crucial to their strategy for growth and performance, and if done right, has a direct impact on the bottom line. Added to this is the relentless pressure to do more with less – both on organizations and on employees.

PKM 157
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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

In the Business of Learning , I compared publishing and learning. What Harold is raising is that there are going to be lots of free learning that is going to compete with our the more costly paid learning that learning organizations will continue to produce. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. eLearning Technology.

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

One of the areas that always gain interest and usage are open source systems, that is to say, free open source code (some are not), to which any organization, company, educational setting, government and so forth can build their own system (often noted as home-grown) and do what they wish with it. It is also fee-based.