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OER for Precedent

CourseArc

OER for Precedent. Why an Open Educational Resources Model Means More Opportunities for All Learners. 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.

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Unleashing The Potential Of OER: The Advantages And Challenges Of Open Learning Materials

eLearning Industry

OER implementation is becoming more common in classrooms. Read to discover if open learning materials are the right fit for your institution. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Emerging Online Learning Tools Research Session Mindmap

Clark Quinn

There were experts in each area, so names like Vanessa Dennan on social media, Curt Bonk in MOOCs, Florence Martin on synchronous Learning, and David Wiley on Open Education Research. So, in addition to all the research on research, David Wiley presented some outcome findings for OERs. Later he gave a more complex explanation why (e.g.

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Instructional Design Experience Before Your First Job

Experiencing eLearning

Local historical societies, museums, or unemployment services offices may be interested in your volunteer work, as might an open source project looking to educate people about their application. Sites like OER Commons and e-learningforkids.org accept content, so you could create something and have it used by real people.

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

Hurix Digital

Open distance education universities in Bangladesh, India, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa, and Turkey, currently enroll more than 7 million students combined. Many of the programs are embracing the digital age and incorporating recent forms of e-learning, like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). . in 2017, up from 31.1%

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

One of the areas that always gain interest and usage are open source systems, that is to say, free open source code (some are not), to which any organization, company, educational setting, government and so forth can build their own system (often noted as home-grown) and do what they wish with it. Not open source.

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75 Free Tools That Power Up Custom eLearning Development

Thinkdom

GIMP : An open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop that offers advanced photo editing features for designing custom graphics and enhancing visuals. H5P : An open-source platform that provides a variety of interactive learning activity templates, such as quizzes and presentations, that can be easily integrated.