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Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. In the last post I provided the following standards and listed the nouns I thought might be important: Example Standards. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites). Is flexible for mixing with other resources.

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. They do not have the technical expertise, the time, or the institutional support to engage meaningfully with OER. The first has to do with capacity.

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How do we talk about “open” in the context of courseware?

Iterating Toward Openness

In another article , he includes examples of “courseware” ranging from Cengage MindTap and Pearson CourseConnect to Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative and Lumen’s Waymaker. When we ask whether or not content is open, we mean is it openly licensed (is it OER)? Likewise, putting OER (e.g.,

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

It seems to me as though this year was pretty momentous too, if for no other reason than the open source LMS Moodle – first released 15 years ago and by far the most popular LMS in the world – raised its very first round of venture capital in October. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“In the Leeds offering, for example, each course certificate will cost £59 and there are five taught courses; the sixth assessment course, which leads to 10 credits, is priced at £250 – making a total cost of £545 – which will also cover access to online library content,” The Guardian reports.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

This is a good example of why we should be more critical when we hear about schools that boast everyone was admitted to college – at what cost? His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). ” Via Bryan Alexander : “ Moodle and the next LMS: reflections and more questions.” Sounds Familiar.”