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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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Spotlight: Elite Sport Performance Course

LearnDash

The University of Southern Queensland where I study for my PhD has a reputation as one of Australia’s leading providers of on-campus and online (distance) education programs in Australia. The course will remain open until the end of February 2016 and is free to register. Tell us about your organization.

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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. This platform also offers a range of reputed third-party tools, such as Scrivener, Adobe InDesign, Canva, WordPress, etc.

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

Learning with e's

I can see their point, as increasingly, I am publishing my ideas and research up here on this blog, so everyone can see it and access it freely, rather than waiting for it to be published in a reputable peer reviewed journal a year or so down the road, when it is out of date. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

Open All the Way: MOOCs, OER, and Open Education. The MOOC offers the opportunity for service; building a student base; connecting with an entire field or industry; and establishing a worldwide reputation for leadership. Winds of Change: Is Higher Education Experiencing a Shift in Delivery?, 25 Jul 12.

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Wayne's world

Learning with e's

If the quality is poorer, he remarked, then the institution is unlikely to risk its reputation by offering it. Another red herring, he suggested, was that open educational resources were poorer in quality than the traditional course delivery currently offered by most universities. Unported License.

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Top 40 eLearning Articles and 5 Hot Topics for Early March

eLearning Learning Posts

Top five tips for writing an effective, engaging compliance course - Spicy Learning , March 9, 2010 Compliance training has a bad reputation for being little more than a box-ticking exercise. But here are Saffron we believe it’s absolutely possible to create effective, engaging training that achieves both competence and compliance.