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Productive Disruption: Kadenze’s Silver Lining in the Cloud

Kadenze

Students then carry increased debt as they pursue the best staff, best networks, best career prospects, best facilities, best athletics programs and so on. Is a virtual arts studio, one with global connectivity that is supported by experts in their field, a sub-standard version of the arts school?

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

Edmodo – Limited free, the “Enterprise” version is fee-based, and BTW, I’ve never seen EdTech use the words “Enterprise” before, which is a corporate term. . Today it is fee-based, but yes, you can find an older versions that are free, because those versions were built on Moodle.

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The ivory towers are crumbling

Learning with e's

Increasingly academics are making their ideas freely available on blogs, social networks and other sharing sites. Another threat is Creative Commons which has an entire range of licencing agreements which variously enable users to modify, extend and share versions of the original work. And that is where the social media come in.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

The example they cite sounds like actually hacking – but I believe that we are going to see more and more employees taking initiative to end run the barriers in order to leverage networks, communities, and tools that extend beyond the boundaries of the organization. Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium.

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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. 11, 2010, information for the 2011 versions of the 2010 events below was not available. link] As of Nov.

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Online Educa Berlin 2014 Conference Review #OEB14

eLearning 24-7

As noted in an earlier post, Growth is launching a higher education version of their gamification LMS, with feature sets specifically for the HE industry. One of the sessions I was in, was a blogger session which included Stephen Downes, a foremost expert on OER (Open Educational Resources).

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Top 40 eLearning Articles and 5 Hot Topics for Early March

eLearning Learning Posts

6 Reasons To Use Amplify for Collaborative Learning - The Writers Gateway , March 8, 2010 I recently came across this website called Amplify that works just like Twitter and other social networking sites. Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network , March 4, 2010 Educase piece. Good stuff. Nothing new here. March 1, 2010.