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Learner Resources in the Digital Age

BrainCert

With adaptive learning platforms and personalized feedback, learners can receive individualized instruction tailored to their specific needs and learning styles. This personalized approach fosters creativity, innovation, and critical thinking skills. Digital resources also bridge the gap between theory and practice.

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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

ID Reflections

The OER movement was the trigger for the MOOCs then. Many smart employees who have invested time and effort in building their own learning networks are turning to their PLNs (Personal Learning Networks) for help at the point of need. None of this is new information or insight. The philosophy behind a MOOC is very different.

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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. OER – Open Educational Resources exist and there are plenty to choose from, which you can add to your system. Here is a sampling of those vendors on the (“Alternative to Moodle). It is also fee-based.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

When the personal tools in your mobile phone are more empowering than what your company provides or approves for your projects, how can you be saved from devastating market forces? Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium. Now, for the pessimists out there – Do you remember back to the really early days of the web?

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Online Educa Berlin 2014 Conference Review #OEB14

eLearning 24-7

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. Well organized, but for a person who cannot have dairy, there was only day you could eat something. This was the 20th anniversary of OEB. You may say, wait – organized is great. Absolutely.

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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

Kitaboo

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? Wikipedia defines the subscription model as a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. a semester.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

Learning is at the heart of personal change and transformation, and the learner needs to take risks and deal with changing situations in his or her environment. Folke (2010) emphasized the need for resilience, so people will anticipate change then influence developments to achieve societal and personal goals. Picky, picky.