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Online Learning and Open Education: A Perfect Pairing
Why open licensing and online delivery complement each other, what each one adds to the other, and where the fit is less than perfect.
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Open Meets Online
Why open resources and online delivery work so well together.
Online Learning and Open Education: A Study of the Benefits
A look at the main benefits of combining online learning with open education, centered on cost savings and scheduling flexibility, and how to judge them.
Online Learning and Open Education: A Study of the Current State
A cautious snapshot of how widely online learning and open education are combined today, where the practice is common, and where it is still rare.
Open Education and Online Learning: A Catalyst for Innovation
How combining open licenses with online delivery encourages new teaching formats and experimentation, and why not every experiment succeeds.
Open Education and Online Learning: A Catalyst for Innovation and Access
How innovation and wider access can reinforce each other when courses are open and online, and where the loop breaks down.
Open Education and Online Learning: A Perfect Storm of Innovation
How cheaper bandwidth, open licenses and rising demand for flexible learning arrived around the same time, and why the timing mattered.
Open Education and Online Learning: A Perfect Storm of Innovation and Access
The pressures that open resources and online delivery place on traditional institutions, from pricing and exclusivity to the question of what a degree is for.
Open Education and Online Learning: A Win-Win for Students and Institutions
A two-sided look at who gains what from open online learning, from lower costs for learners to wider reach for institutions, plus the costs on each side.
Open Education Resources: A Game-Changer for Online Learning
How openly licensed material lets course builders reuse and adapt content instead of starting from scratch, and what that work actually involves.
The Benefits of Open Education: Why Online Learning is the Way Forward
The argument for openness as a sensible direction for online provision, set alongside the main counterarguments and open questions.
The Rise of Open Educational Resources: A Game-Changer for Online Learning
A short history of how openly licensed teaching materials grew from a few early projects into a common source for online courses, and what held growth back.
The Role of MOOCs in Open Education
Where massive open online courses fit within open education and where they do not, including the difference between open to join and openly licensed.
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