Kitaboo

MARCH 30, 2024

We’ve moved from traditional print textbooks to digital ones and even to Open Educational Resource s (OER). Among the big trends in higher education textbooks , using OER and digital textbooks stands out. The Emergence and Scope of Open Educational Resources OER and Digital Textbooks II. How to Use OER?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 21, 2010

Look, as altruistic as it may seem to give away all your content, ideas, lecture notes, videos, slides and even articles and books, for those who actually opt to do so, there are also excellent rewards. Tags: creative commons user generated content OER Picasso Web 2.0 I think this is a good thing. open scholarship.

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OER Creative Commons Slideshare Social Networks 88

Learning with e's

AUGUST 23, 2010

A blog post I read recently reported that one US professor is now considering preventing his students from making notes during his lectures, because this action infringes his intellectual property! Image source The ivory towers are crumbling by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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OER Social Networks Creative Commons Journal 92

Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. It''s gradual, and occurs alongside traditional practices - so we still have lectures and campus universities, which might lead you to think nothing much has changed, but parallel with this the role of blended and elearning has become mainstream practice.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 25, 2011

I was in New Zealand in November/December on my lecture tour. I also had the distinct pleasure of meeting up with prolific Twitter activist Paulo Simoes for the first time, and also spent some time with charismatic OER guru Wayne Mackintosh. Full story here: The next ten years. Auckland, New Zealand. Cologne, Germany. Unported License.

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Conference OER Sun License 72

Kitaboo

MARCH 26, 2024

In this blog, we’ll be discussing higher education textbook trends of 2024, as well as exploring the impact of digital textbooks and open educational resources (OER) on higher education and the future they promise. OERs democratize education by removing costly barriers to entry and making quality content available to all students.

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