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OER for Precedent

CourseArc

OER for Precedent. Why an Open Educational Resources Model Means More Opportunities for All Learners. 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.

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Spotlight: Elite Sport Performance Course

LearnDash

With the advent of of MOOCs and other open courses in recent years, I’ve now had the opportunity to do a PhD on the subject. The course will remain open until the end of February 2016 and is free to register. These photos are all open licensed Creative Commons images. Tell us about your organization.

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

Learning with e's

As Brian Lamb said recently at the Open Educational Resources Symposium, it seems perverse to hoard knowledge in any form, particularly in the light of the current economic crisis. Many of my academic colleagues are now refusing to publish in standard publications, preferring to throw their lot in with the open access journals.

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Wayne's world

Learning with e's

He also has the pragmatic wherewithal to realise his dream, cultivating many connections and in the process, helping to establish a powerful worldwide consortium of Open Education Anchor partners. These are universities across the globe who are willing to open up their courses and programmes to any learner for free. Unported License.

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Top 40 eLearning Articles and 5 Hot Topics for Early March

eLearning Learning Posts

Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? eLearning Technology , March 9, 2010 As part of the Big Question this month Open Content in Workplace Learning? , I’m exploring whether Open Content can be used by for-profit companies. Open Content in Workplace Learning? Good stuff. March 1, 2010. License (15).

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The open case

Learning with e's

Conversely, publishing in an open access journals can increase the audience dramatically. Essentially, because they are free and online, open access journals are read more widely. Online open access journals trump paper based journals every time in terms of amplification of ideas too. Some of these are listed as links below.

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