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The Impact of Open Educational Resources

October 19, 2012
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The Internet Makes it Possible The rapidly evolving system of open education has been revolutionizing higher education for more than a decade. The universal spread of the Internet has freed colleges and universities from the tyranny of the physical classroom, with tremendous impact not only on the new-found resource of top professors giving immediate on-line [...]

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Can Free Online Programs offer Legitimate Degrees for the Same Price?

October 5, 2012

“Free” online education isn’t exactly new. For years prestigious institutions like Harvard, MIT, and Yale have offered open courseware as a service to the community. Open courseware, while still useful for eager learners, has its own slew of complications. For starters, students have to more or less teach themselves the subject at hand using a [...]

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Could MOOCs Level the Educational Playing Field?

September 11, 2012
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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have garnered worldwide attention in the past year. Though free online courses have been offered by leading universities such as MIT and Stanford for more than a decade, it was an Artificial Intelligence class taught in the 2011 fall semester that put the “mass” in MOOCs. The class – taught [...]

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How to Integrate Moodle and WordPress

August 14, 2012

This article will discuss, individually, the essential characteristics of Moodle and WordPress; it will then describe how the two may be integrated with one another. Both are very new, having been released only within the past ten years. What is Moodle? Moodle is a free source e-learning platform (other terms include Course Management System (CMS), [...]

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The Future is Open Courseware: Three Institutions Offering Online Learning Opportunities

February 2, 2012

As society becomes increasingly more tech savvy, more and more of the foundations of our lives are turning to the web. Our professional lives have been conduced online and plugged in for several years now and, with the advent of social media and social networking, so too are our personal and social lives. The latest [...]

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An Open Book for Learners

December 15, 2010

Open education programmes are solving many of the problems faced by those who are considering embarking on a programme of study. A related problem often faced by students who do decide to study, and which may be particularly acute for distance-learners who do not have access to a university library, is the availability and expense [...]

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6th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning: Access and Success in Learning

October 25, 2010
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The Sixth Pan Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF6) will take place from 24-28 November 2010 at Le-Meridien, Cochin Resort & Convention Centre (Kochi, Kerala), India. The theme of PCF6 is: Access and Success in Learning: Global Development Perspectives. PCF6 is an international conference that will explore the contribution of open and distance learning to [...]

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