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Productive Disruption: Kadenze’s Silver Lining in the Cloud

Kadenze

Students then carry increased debt as they pursue the best staff, best networks, best career prospects, best facilities, best athletics programs and so on. Many academics see sharing credit as an efficient use of resources, an opportunity for student choice and an effective way to connect students to global networks.

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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

ID Reflections

The OER movement was the trigger for the MOOCs then. Employees are rejecting them; L&D is desperately trying to prove the ROI of these programs while employees are finding their own means of acquiring the required skills and knowledge. However, not everyone comes with the skills of knowing how to learn and require support.

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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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Role of L&D in the 21C Workplace

ID Reflections

Repeatable tasks are performed more rapidly, with greater accuracy and more cost effectively by machines. And this mega-shift calls for some key role changes and skill acquisition for L&D. Some of the related skills required to do this are given below. But I will leave that discussion for another post.

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

Big publishers are having problems as the cost of distribution goes towards zero and as that brings along a ton of competition from the low end. But all major publications have limitations in that because of the cost, they have to go after large audiences and they need to stay at higher level topics. Total cost: zero.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

The example they cite sounds like actually hacking – but I believe that we are going to see more and more employees taking initiative to end run the barriers in order to leverage networks, communities, and tools that extend beyond the boundaries of the organization. It can be pretty fast to do that and really doesn’t cost much.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Other terms that i can identify with are Dave Cormier’s ‘ Community as Curriculum ‘ approach and Wendy Drexler’s elucidation of Networked learning in the ‘ Networked student model ‘ ( video ). PLE - “My PLE is where I store all my “keys” to the network. concerning OER.