Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2010

Time to reflect on the Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) workshop on Open Educational Resources, which was held in Windhoek, Namibia this week. Dr Stella Anthony (Australian Universities Network for Quality Assurance) gave the opening presentation for the event, and spoke about the opportunities and challenges of OERs in higher education.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 9, 2010

ASTD's Big Question for March is How do we leverage open content in workplace learning? One of the best known is MIT's Open Courseware project. A recently posted blog at the Huffington Post titled Are Open Educational Resources at the Tipping Point or the Tripping Point? And the concept seems to be gaining momentum.

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There Is No Chalk

MARCH 2, 2010

This month's Learning Circuits Big Q is about open content and the workplace:How do we leverage Open Content in Workplace Learning? Tony Karrer gives a couple examples of open content stores for adult education, such as the OER Commons and the Open Courseware Consortium.

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Learning with e's

MAY 3, 2010

I'm enjoying the workshop on Open Educational Resources (OER) here in Windhoek, Namibia. Today, the workshop for Quality Assurance Agencies is addressing the concept of OERs and how they can be quality assured. Sir John Daniel spoke this morning about the barriers to Open Content and listed three.

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The Learning Circuits

MARCH 1, 2010

One of my Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010 was around Open Content for Workplace Learning: I’m not sure why this already hasn’t had a bigger impact, but workplace learning is going to start to catch up on the value of OCW and OER. Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 19, 2008

ZaidLearn: University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! Huge directory of links to free educational resources–open courseware, open educational resources, and general resources. tags: openaccess , education , highered , e-learning , creativecommons , free. tags: web2.0 , blog , tools. Mostly higher ed.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 9, 2010

The March Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog asks why it is that open content initiatives such as the OER Commons and the Open Courseware Consortium haven't had a bigger impact. Tags: BigQuestion. The resulting short course has been taken by many thousands of designers around the world.

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