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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

Engaging Young Learners Using Social Media Platforms Social media use continues to rise among adults, with platforms like Facebook and YouTube being the most popular. Yet, it is younger Americans, especially those aged 18-24, who are more likely to use a variety of social media platforms frequently.

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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.

OER 279
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What if they threw a party and none of us came?

Learning with e's

Before anyone points out the fact that paper based journal cost money to produce, edit, review, print and distribute, I want to make the following points: Most academic journals are run by academics on a voluntary basis - those who review for my journal don't get paid a penny.

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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.

OER 224
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The ivory towers are crumbling

Learning with e's

The Law journal has this definition of IP: "Intellectual property (IP) is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which property rights are recognised - and the corresponding fields of law". And that is where the social media come in. Intellectual property is a strange and difficult concept.

OER 92
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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Four roles for social media in workplace learning - Clive on Learning , September 28, 2010 I write this as I travel to Birmingham to participate in a panel discussion with Nick Shackleton-Jones and Robin Hoyle on the role of social media in learning. Reusing eLearning material (OER) from other sources or not, asks UNESCO.