Category: OpenEducationResources
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Open Badges: 2014 Goal for Professional Development
My goal this year is to leverage ‘Open Badges’ at the high school level to demonstrate where a student may acquire a skill. This update in. The NYTimes post was too old so I include a more relevant piece from yesterday on GettingSmart, one caution on all of this is that this process is just…
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Over 10,000 Free Online Open Courses
Free Online Open Courses Get free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 10,150 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player.
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Eight Free Lectures on The Hobbit
I just received a copy of The Hobbit disc as a gift and so, I wondered if there were educational resources available for it and I found these. Download Eight Free Lectures on The Hobbit by “The Tolkien Professor,” Corey Olsen The name Corey Olsen may already be familiar to some readers—or at least those…
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ALISON— A Trove of 400 Free Online Job Training Courses
ALISON— A Trove of 400 Free Online Job Training Courses in Education, Online Courses, Technology How many of us have taken an online course to learn a new language? My guess is, a lot. How many have used the web to find a recipe? Even more. But as handy as those skills are, will they…
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The Open TextBook Challenge
While my school, District, State is not OER yet, we will be. Any other way won’t let us compete for students or provide them competitive resources. Here is some of the current thinking on the subject of Open Textbooks. From Getting Smart: OER Textbooks Cut Costs.