Open Educational Resources

A wealth of well-organized, free learning

September 29, 2011

I heard recently from the folks over at Online College Classes, and after taking a look at their site, thought it was worth mentioning here. They have done a good job aggregating a lot of open educational resources across the Web – from course materials, to videos, to podcasts, to textbooks. It’s already a very [...]

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Getting a First-Rate Business Education Online – Free

April 1, 2010

Sonia Simone over at Copyblogger has a nice post on How to Get a First-Class Online Business Education. Her focus is specifically on online business – i.e., how to create and run a successful online business – but the philosophy and process she describes applies well to self-educating yourself more generally in business and pretty [...]

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OER Continued

November 28, 2007

Right around the time of my critique of Andrew Keen’s article in Associations Now last week I received notice from the Development Gateway of its new OER Introduction Booklet.  This seemed like good fodder for a posting that might continue the counter argument against Keen’s elitist line of thinking. Zaid Ali Alsagoff, however, has already [...]

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E-Collaboration Experiences: A Collection of Stories

September 26, 2007

Moodle, TeamSpeak, PBwiki, and a range of other tools are highlighted in a new collection of stories about e-collaboration experiences from IICD and PSO. But first: Blog Spottings and other News My posting last week about Open Educational Resources attracted a number of comments and e-mails. As a result I have updated that posting to [...]

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OER – Open Educational Resources

September 20, 2007

The catalyst for this particular post is the recent launch by Creative Commons of ccLearn, a division of Creative Commons, “dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources.” Open Educational Resources, or OER, as the Wikipedia entry will tell you in more detail, is a term [...]

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