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OER for Precedent

CourseArc

OER for Precedent. We have all used the buzzwords, skimmed articles, and attended conferences and presentations with the intention of doing better. Take the movement for Open Educational Resources, or OER, for example. 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

This presents an opportunity for educators to leverage social media platforms for educational purposes. 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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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. An ever-present thorn in the side of online education, cheating will be almost impossible to prevent in the MOOC space.

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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. An ever-present thorn in the side of online education, cheating will be almost impossible to prevent in the MOOC space.

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Open all hours #EDEN15

Learning with e's

Martin Weller's keynote presentation at EDEN 2015 Conference was entitled 'The battle for open.' Throughout his keynote presentation in Barcelona, Weller built on this, regularly reminded delegates that openness has been victorious, and we have reached a certain point in the history of education where openness is now mainstream.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Presentation: “Twitter in Education, what next?” - Dont Waste Your Time , September 10, 2010 As a follow-up to my (successful?) presentation ‘ Twitter in Education &# this one looks into the uses of Twitter, rather than the tool. Related posts: Presentation: Twitter in Education. The destination is the PLN.&#.

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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] l February 14-16, 2011 Midwest Education Technology Conference (METC), St. Charles, Missouri, USA.