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Moving Microlearning to the Cloud

Ed App

Microlearning through open educational resources (OERs) is one of the facets of learning that is fast gaining traction among people. The focus of this system is to deliver customized OERs as microlearning nuggets to satisfy the real-time needs of learners. One way is to effectively organize content in microlearning by using tags.

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Movements for change

Learning with e's

How do movements for change emerge and gain impetus? Tags: creative commons Alistair Creelman OER. What is open scholarship and what does it have to offer me? Will the 'giants' in the publishing world take notice of the Open Educational Resource movement? How did Web 2.0 come about? You give it away, but you still keep it.'

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Opening doors

Learning with e's

David Sadler, Director of Networks at the Higher Education Academy, says: “This event will share the experiences of the pilot projects which, since early 2009, have been working to make thousands of resources freely available through the UK OER programme, leading to a more positive student learning experience.

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Small, but perfectly formed

Learning with e's

Tomorrow, when I have had more time to reflect, I will write a summary of all the key points that emerged from this final Bazaar event. Tags: PLE Meta tagging University of Utrecht Bazaar OER inter-operability. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning Styles and Visualization

Mark Oehlert

Technorati Tags : learning styles , visualization. Ive been tinkering with Many Eyes over the last couple of weeks as a way of exploring potential visual navigation tools/interfaces for Open University courses and qualifications, and OpenLearn OERs/course units: [link] and search for "many eyes". Emerging Tech. Cool Tools.

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Future of Higher Education – Digital Textbooks and Courses

MagicBox

The increased use of electronic books and the emergence of e-Readers such as Kindle, Nook, iPad, and others have changed the way electronic books are perceived. Colleges and universities are increasingly turning to open educational resources (OER) as a solution to the rapidly rising cost of college textbooks.

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Future of Higher Education – Digital Textbooks and Courses

MagicBox

The increased use of electronic books and the emergence of e-Readers such as Kindle, Nook, iPad, and others have changed the way electronic books are perceived. Colleges and universities are increasingly turning to open educational resources (OER) as a solution to the rapidly rising cost of college textbooks.