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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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The Rise of OER and Digital Textbooks in Higher Education

Kitaboo

We’ve moved from traditional print textbooks to digital ones and even to Open Educational Resource s (OER). Among the big trends in higher education textbooks , using OER and digital textbooks stands out. The Emergence and Scope of Open Educational Resources OER and Digital Textbooks II. How to Use OER?

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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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How to Maintain Instructional Continuity in Times of Crisis

Hurix Digital

Considering the current reality, it is quite imperative that schools and institutions be prepared to deliver lectures in ways other than instructor-led learning. Some of the faculty members may not have ever delivered a lecture online, similarly, it might be new for some students as well. . Do a video lecture.