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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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Learner Resources in the Digital Age

BrainCert

Through video conferencing and shared documents, learners can work together and develop important teamwork skills that are highly valued in today's professional world. Organizations and individuals host webinars on topics such as business, technology, and personal development.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs. Faculty who don’t generate a flow of new knowledge for their students will have their tenure terminated.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs. Faculty who don’t generate a flow of new knowledge for their students will have their tenure terminated.

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Open all hours #EDEN15

Learning with e's

In this volume, Martin Weller examines four key areas that have been central to the developments within open education: open access, MOOCs, open education resources and open scholarship. There is a rise in the impact of these research outputs, with open access journals gaining ground in the impact indices.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Wikis in eLearning 2.0 - Learning with e’s , September 12, 2010 The latest issue of the journal Interactive Learning Environments is a special issue entitled: Towards eLearning 2.0 Reusing eLearning material (OER) from other sources or not, asks UNESCO. concerning OER. emphasis added ). Results of the Experiment.

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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

link] or [link] December 1, 2010 UNESCO-Commonwealth of Learning Policy Form on Open Educational Resources (OER): Taking OER beyond the OER Community – Policy and Capacity, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France. link] December 4-8, 2010 National Staff Development Council , Atlanta, Georgia, USA.