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How Relevant and Practical are Open Educational Resources?: A Case for a Little Humility About the Potential

June 21, 2013
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There is a huge amount of public interest in recent initiatives from MIT and Standford in the development of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and in open education resources such as Apple's iTunes University and the Khan Academy. There are also less publicized, but equally interesting, MOOCs such as Change11 developed by enterprising Canadian and American thought leaders such as George Siemens, Stephen Downes and Curtis Bonk.

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