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Making Higher Education More Affordable, Flexible, and Accessible with AI

Hurix Digital

Open Educational Resources (OER) Access Open educational resources (OER) are freely available digital materials that can be used in place of or in addition to traditional textbooks, and they are frequently incorporated into eLearning platforms. Examples of this content include games, dynamic simulations, videos, and surveys.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Involving little more than knowledge transmission and perhaps a quiz at the end, the xMOOC is widely seen as replicating old-fashioned lectures and exams. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Involving little more than knowledge transmission and perhaps a quiz at the end, the xMOOC is widely seen as replicating old-fashioned lectures and exams. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs.

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Cost-Effective Training: Leveraging Free Tools and Resources

Learning Rebels

Free Content Creation Using OER’s Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed materials that can be used for teaching, learning, and research. Leveraging OER can significantly reduce content creation costs while maintaining high quality.

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To Flip or Not to Flip Your Classroom

TechSmith Camtasia

What would you do if all of your students read the textbook and studied online lecture videos BEFORE each class? The class average grade for all my students in my flipped classes improved three-quarters of a letter grade over traditional lecture classes in past years which is statistically significant (p < 0.05 My Implementation.

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Giving it all away

Learning with e's

Look, as altruistic as it may seem to give away all your content, ideas, lecture notes, videos, slides and even articles and books, for those who actually opt to do so, there are also excellent rewards. Tags: creative commons user generated content OER Picasso Web 2.0 Image source Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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The ivory towers are crumbling

Learning with e's

A blog post I read recently reported that one US professor is now considering preventing his students from making notes during his lectures, because this action infringes his intellectual property! Tags: copyright online publishing OER intellectual property open scholarship. How ridiculous. Unported License.

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