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

Learning with e's

The real costs come in the production of the paper version. Some are turning their back completely on the hard nosed, monetizing operation that is global publishing, and are instead using free tools such as blogs and other social media services to publish their work. and that's their lot. How much could costs be reduced then?

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The ivory towers are crumbling

Learning with e's

And that is where the social media come in. 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.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

They say its about: 5 Trends Converging (3G + Social Networking + Video + VoIP + Impressive Mobile Devices) The growth of mobile devices has been amazing. Prediction #4 => Social Learning Grows But Becomes More Specific In 2009, we talked a lot about social learning. They didn’t really use the language of social learning.

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Navigating the Journey to Teaching and Learning Online: Step 2

CourseArc

The 5Rs of Open Education Resources (OER) is a model that has been widely used for the rapid development of online content. OER Repositories – Resources for OER content. Given the current circumstances, we suggest using a shortened version that includes the following design structure: Gain Attention. Prior Learning.

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Navigating the Journey to Teaching and Learning Online: Step 2

CourseArc

The 5Rs of Open Education Resources (OER) is a model that has been widely used for the rapid development of online content. OER Repositories – Resources for OER content. Given the current circumstances, we suggest using a shortened version that includes the following design structure: Gain Attention. Prior Learning.

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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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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. Will the same thing happen in social? Related post: Noncommercial Isn’t the Problem, ShareAlike Is. Good stuff.