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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

One of the areas that always gain interest and usage are open source systems, that is to say, free open source code (some are not), to which any organization, company, educational setting, government and so forth can build their own system (often noted as home-grown) and do what they wish with it. Not open source.

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Learner Resources in the Digital Age

BrainCert

This accessibility also opens the doors to a global community, providing learners with a diverse range of perspectives and resources. Open Educational Resources (OERs): Open Educational Resources are freely accessible educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and more.

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Why Open Content is Not Yet Adopted in the Workplace

Kapp Notes

ASTD's Big Question for March is How do we leverage open content in workplace learning? One of the best known is MIT's Open Courseware project. A recently posted blog at the Huffington Post titled Are Open Educational Resources at the Tipping Point or the Tripping Point? Many organizations are involved with such initiatives.

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The Role of Higher Education Publishing Solutions in Transforming the Learning Landscape

Kitaboo

Collaborative Platforms These solutions offer collaborative, engaging, and encouraging features like participation in discussion forums, exercising diverse group projects, and making the most of digital collaboration tools. Open educational resources (OER).

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Opening spaces, open learning

Learning with e's

I'm enjoying the workshop on Open Educational Resources (OER) here in Windhoek, Namibia. Today, the workshop for Quality Assurance Agencies is addressing the concept of OERs and how they can be quality assured. Sir John Daniel spoke this morning about the barriers to Open Content and listed three.

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Step-by-Step Guide to Licensing Teaching Materials

Kitaboo

Licensing agreements are open to negotiation in most cases. You can also participate in educational forums that freely share resources for pedagogy along with user feedback. Open Educational Resources (OER): Free to share and collaborate on, these licenses are meant for reuse.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

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. Over time, content providers will supplement their core offerings with live webinars, interactive exercises, discussion forums, wikis, social networks etc.

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