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OER for Precedent

CourseArc

OER for Precedent. Take the movement for Open Educational Resources, or OER, for example. Based on the idea of open access, OER is the free, immediate, online use of available research articles with re-use rights. Open access and OER makes content available for anyone anywhere in the world to read, access and build upon.

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Teaching Materials Management Systems in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities

Kitaboo

It facilitates the seamless dissemination of knowledge across diverse learning environments. The rapid evolution of knowledge domains and the influx of new research findings present a significant challenge. They help foster a culture of cooperative learning and knowledge dissemination among educators.

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Spotlight: Elite Sport Performance Course

LearnDash

These photos are all open licensed Creative Commons images. In fact I’ve used Creative Commons images, videos and audio throughout the course. It’s early days, but we believe that LearnDash will allow us to share the professional knowledge of sport psychologists to a large audience around the world.

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Understanding the Importance of Educational Content Licensing for Schools and Institutions

Kitaboo

Academic Integrity and Copyright Compliance Integration of Cutting-Edge Resources Equitable Access to Educational Resources Facilitates Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing Continuous Professional Development Customization of Educational Content IV. How Does Content Licensing Empower Educational Institutions? Wrapping Up! Wrapping Up!

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Movements for change

Learning with e's

What is Creative Commons and how does it work? And my soundbite from the interview: 'Knowledge is like love. Tags: creative commons Alistair Creelman OER. The learning technology landscape is changing and many questions are being asked. What is open scholarship and what does it have to offer me?

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Open educational practices

Learning with e's

You see, the idea behind open practices is that anyone can gain access for free, at any time and in any place - courses, software, ideas, knowledge, people. It's not going to be easy to change a model where knowledge has become a commodity though. And open access journals are opening up knowledge for all without payment.

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The ivory towers are crumbling

Learning with e's

People are entitled to be acknowledged for their contribution to knowledge. What I am opposed to is the idea that knowledge can be traded as a commodity. Another threat is Creative Commons which has an entire range of licencing agreements which variously enable users to modify, extend and share versions of the original work.

OER 92