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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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Why Open Content is Not Yet Adopted in the Workplace

Kapp Notes

A quick definition from the article: The term "open educational resources" was first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. OERs include learning content as well as tools to create and share the content.

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Embracing Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education

Hurix Digital

Table of Contents: What Are Open Educational Resources (OERs)? What Is the Importance of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Higher Education? In the education sector, especially when it comes to e-Learning in higher education, OERs have a pivotal role to play. What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?

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Daily Bookmarks 06/19/2008

Experiencing eLearning

ZaidLearn: University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! Adopt and Adapt: Shaping Tech for the Classroom | Edutopia - Annotated. First, it helps to look at the typical process of technology adoption (keeping in mind, of course, that schools are not typical of anything.) Mostly higher ed. Doing old things in old ways.

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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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What Are the Best OER Media Usage Practices?

Gutenberg Technology

To cater to their preferences, learning programs must adopt a similar feel and level of visual stimulation to the online content students are accustomed to. While we are only beginning to discover how excessive screen time affects learning, it’s safe to say that today’s students have less patience for reading plain text than they used to.

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Innovation at the Intersection of Technology and Teaching

TechSmith Camtasia

From his research on how farmers try new ways of planting and harvesting, sociologist Everett Rogers noticed patterns in rates of adoption from early adopters to laggards. A few decades later, Geoffrey Moore proposed that adoption has more to do with sales and marketing than other factors. Why do people adopt new innovations?

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