"The current system of measuring scholarly influence doesn't reflect the way many researchers work in an environment driven more and more by the social Web. Research that used to take months or years to reach readers can now find them almost instantly via blogs and Twitter."
Use Educational Technology to overcome institutional barriers in Higher Education. Follow a case study to learn how to deploy educational technologies in your institution. Guides to get the most out of using educational technology in Higher Education:
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The purpose of the guidelines is "to encourage decision makers in governments and institutions to invest in the systematic production, adaptation, and use of OER and to bring them in to the mainstream of higher education in order to improve the quality of curricula and teaching and to reduce costs."