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Innovation at the Intersection of Technology and Teaching

TechSmith Camtasia

The clickers also let us challenge the common in-class ‘no device’ policy. After seeing positive results from their peers with the mobile app, many professors adopted the clickers and adjusted or got rid of their digital device policies. OER opens up all kinds of new opportunities for teaching and learning.

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How Do Videos Improve K-12 Learning Outcomes?

Hurix Digital

Also Read: Advantages of using OER in K-12 Education. For more information, check out our Privacy Policy. You should, however, have a clear understanding of the news clip, documentary, or any other video clip and evaluate its impact on young minds before using it. What is the Purpose? Building background knowledge. Enriching a text.

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March Big Question - Open Content in Workplace Learning

eLearning Cyclops

These were OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium. For example, the training probably includes policies and procedures as they pertain to internal staff. This month's Big Question is "how do we leverage open content in workplace learning?" For the first time, I perused these sites.

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Advantages of using OER in K-12 Education

Hurix Digital

What Are Open Educational Resources (OER)? Open educational resources or OER are teaching, research, and learning resources that are available in the public domain for free use. OER carries the GNU or Creative Commons license that permits them to be revised, repurposed, remixed, and redistributed at no cost to the user.

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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.

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Digital Textbooks Revolutionizing Higher Education: A 2024 Guide

Kitaboo

In this blog, we’ll be discussing higher education textbook trends of 2024, as well as exploring the impact of digital textbooks and open educational resources (OER) on higher education and the future they promise. OERs democratize education by removing costly barriers to entry and making quality content available to all students.

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11 Differences between a MOOC and an Online Course

ID Reflections

MOOCs on various topics can be set up using blended content – some custom designed and some re-purposed from OERs and other available content from the net as long as one takes care to note the various IPR-related policies. MOOCs do not always require custom-built content to set up unless the need is very specific.