Open Coursework - New Ideas of Online Learning

Open courses; the next big thing in elearning

The last 15 years have been a great learning cycle for many learners and online education in general has undergone a lot of changes over this time, regarding the open nature of learning methodologies, training techniques and the available resources. The first generation os technologies like WEBCT & BlackBoard were more proprietary and restrictiev in nature for the big organizations that choose to implement them for their students, after this came the open source revolution riding on creative commons licence  and learning methods, These methods were students centered and more flexible in terms of design and implementation.

These types of technologies like Moodle and Ilias riding on open content; created the open educational resource movement OER. Examples of such technologies are Connexions, LeMille, MIT Open Courseware and some other vendors. 

The next stage of learning is the emergence of a personalized learning environment combined with wikis as a a riding technology. This type of environment is both open and in theory and process; this type allows a more challenging method of learning. 

Massive Open Online Courses, provide a more radical technique of learning as all courses are available to just about anyone who is interested. 

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