By Tony Bates, on November 18th, 2008
Opening the last conference day at Online Educa Berlin 2008, the plenary Open Education Resources: Unstoppable or Unsustainable? will shed light on various aspects of deployment, growth and the economic underpinnings of different OER models. With Connexions, originated by Rice University professor, Richard Baraniuk, in 1999, and Jorum, a free online repository service [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 13th, 2008
Whatever happened to learning objects? Well, they’ve been replaced (or rather swallowed up) by open educational resources. Increasingly, more and more institutions are making online educational resources and course materials available free of charge for educational or non-profit purposes. So will content be free in education in the future? I think this deserves a blog [...]
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