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Are Open Educational Resources Right For Business Training?

Gutenberg Technology

Open educational resources (OER) are openly licensed digital assets that are beneficial for learning and research. You are thinking - I don’t need my eLearning vendor anymore. These resources are freely available to all. Anyone can use, share, and modify it. It sounds too good to be true, right? Well, don’t fire him, right away.

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

Here is a sampling of those vendors on the (“Alternative to Moodle). Bonus – One commercial vendor, Paradiso, presents “Open Source LMS, “Best Open Source LMS”, you can find this doozy on any search engine. Some commercial vendors still support on-site, many are just going cloud.

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#OEB13 Post Review

eLearning 24-7

And when it was mentioned, with the exception of one vendor, was “text messaging” a component. . As for the SPOCS (the newest entry to the whole OER (Open educational resources) world) – I saw no mention of it. But I did hear mention of OER via attendees and a couple of vendors. MOOCs were low as well.

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Online Educa Berlin 2014 Conference Review #OEB14

eLearning 24-7

If you are an e-learning vendor in the higher education space and doing or planning on doing business in Europe, this is the place to be. There was a very good amount of vendors at the show. Authoring Tool vendors – okay TechSmith and a couple of ones that were not really asynchronous based authoring tools. . Absolutely.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

Prediction #7 => Major Merger LMS + Talent Management Vendors Back in 2008, I talked about The Rise and Fall of the LMS as larger LMS vendors moved away from learning management towards talent management and human capital management. Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium.

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The Making of a Future-proof Online Learning Program for Colleges & Universities

Hurix Digital

Although, this duration could be reduced significantly when you outsource the work to vendors. These sources include open educational sources (OERs). Early research suggests that learning from OERs is similar to that achieved from traditional textbooks. Align your program to specific learning goals.

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Top 40 eLearning Articles and 5 Hot Topics for Early March

eLearning Learning Posts

Social snake oil - Learning and Working on the Web , March 1, 2010 Knowledge management (KM) was a most promising field until it was hijacked by software vendors who were selling IT systems for six figures. Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network , March 4, 2010 Educase piece. Good stuff. Will the same thing happen in social?