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

Learning with e's

Some publishers, particularly those running open access journals, are reversing the business model - and offering all contents free to any reader online, whilst the authors pay to have their work published. Other business models involve advertising and/or sponsorship. They argue that peer review comes later - and in a continual stream.

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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

Kitaboo

Educational publishers, who till now had a steady stream of income compared to non-educational book publishers, due to the recurring need for textbooks every year by students, are now gradually shifting towards digital publishing. And they found a business opportunity in subscription models. What Is a Subscription Model? a semester.

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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. There was a business card to take – plenty where still there when I walked by at the end of the day. Has areas for video, webcasts (live and archived/recorded), streaming video, audio.

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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

link] or [link] December 1, 2010 UNESCO-Commonwealth of Learning Policy Form on Open Educational Resources (OER): Taking OER beyond the OER Community – Policy and Capacity, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France. link] January 6-9, 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. link] As of Nov.

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Top 40 eLearning Articles and 5 Hot Topics for Early March

eLearning Learning Posts

Virtual Team Management - ID Reflections , March 8, 2010 I recommend this simulation to all those who either are handling a globally distributed team or a project, and to all managers who feel that effective communication is one of the keys to business success. They are just a way to generate a new revenue stream for game designers?

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eLearning Conferences 2013

Tony Karrer

link] December 3-5, 2012 mHealth Summit: Technology, Business, Research and Policy , Gaylord National Resort, Washington, DC, USA. link] December 3-14, 2012 Open Content Licensing for Educators (#OCL4Ed), organized by the OER Foundation, offered online. Degrees – Innovations, Efficiencies and Disruptions to What Ends?