Learning with e's

OCTOBER 30, 2011

There is no mention for example of the New Zealand based OER University (or its founder Wayne McIntosh) and the ground breaking work they are doing to transform open educational practices in higher education. The challenge , she says, is to capture the potential of technology to both lower costs and improve learning for all.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2015

A professor of educational technology at the British Open University, he has been an advocate of openness in education for many years, but he expresses doubts over the outcome of the battle. The dominant narrative now is that MOOCs are the technological solution and education is ripe for disruption. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2015

1) You’re currently professor of educational technology at the British Open University. My field was ArtificialIntelligence , but I started experimenting with online tutor groups, producing web pages, etc and migrated into educational technology (as many people did). I joined the OU in 1995 just as the web was taking off.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 29, 2012

These slides accompanied my presentation during the Learning Technologies conference and exhibition held at London's Olympia on 25-26 January. During my talk, I discussed a number of possible scenarios that might result when wholesale adoption of digital technologies occurs in education and training. Unported License.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MARCH 16, 2010

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? , Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? March 1, 2010.

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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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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 29, 2010

It promises to be another great gathering of the learning technology community. I also recorded an Edtalk on OER for the Core Ed people who were running the conference. Around the globe by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 8) Berlin, Germany. Related blogpost.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 2, 2011

There are many high quality open access journals in existence, and several that are highly recommended in the field of learning technology and distance education. One that is not listed yet on the list is Research in Learning Technology (formerly ALT-J) which will be converting to open access in January 2012. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

He is also aware that wireless provision and the availability of mobile technologies are increasingly important for learning in remote and underprivileged areas of the world. To help achieve this vision, Mackintosh is setting up the OER University and is evangelistic in his elucidation of this concept. Wayne Mackintosh.

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