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Learner Resources in the Digital Age

BrainCert

Digital libraries, like Project Gutenberg and Google Books, have digitized vast collections of books and made them freely accessible to readers worldwide. 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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Strategic Partnerships in Publishing: A Game Changer for Authors

Kitaboo

The rise of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and freely accessible online learning materials provides cost-effective alternatives to traditional textbooks and thus serves a broader student demographic, including those seeking continuous learning beyond formal degrees.

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Top 5 Educational Content Publishing Platforms For Teachers & Educators

Kitaboo

Integration capabilities with subsidiary tools like LMS, Open Educational Resources (OER), cloud storage services like Google Drive, and video conferencing applications like Zoom are pivotal in advancing this objective. Hence, ensure the platform you choose is equipped with this prowess.

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

Google Classroom – This is not an LMS. Yes, Google docs and slides are free. OER – Open Educational Resources exist and there are plenty to choose from, which you can add to your system. Granted, you can do this with a commercial system too, but most folks use OER with an open source learning systems.

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Digital Publishing: The Future of K12 Education

Kitaboo

Major technology giants such as Microsoft and Google have also invested in digital educational projects. With the presence of Open Educational Resources (OERs), publishers realize the need to create relevant K12 content solutions. Big names in the industry such as Pearson, began adopting a digital-first approach.

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Open educational practices

Learning with e's

Google Reader and Google Books for example, are giving us all more than a glimpse of the pages of just about every book that has ever been published. Tags: creative commons Open content OER Google MOOC OEP open scholarship. But things are changing slowly. Some are having to change their business models.

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Innovation at the Intersection of Technology and Teaching

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This Google Ngram Viewer graph shows the change in popularity of the terms ‘invention’ and ‘innovation’ from 1908 to 2008. Open Educational Resources (OER) is digital content available for widespread sharing, redistribution and, in some cases, alteration. OER opens up all kinds of new opportunities for teaching and learning.