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...a new open source platform that will give individual educators and universities the ability to create MOOCs of their own

(View webinar archive and support resources) - Next Generation Learning Challenges has identified six essential dimensions of next-generation learning: - learning goals focused on deeper, more comprehensive outcomes - measurement of progress through embedded and adaptive assessment - learning designs that are personalized, competency-based, and supportive - blended and open-source implementation and change management - conditions that enable "breakthrough models" to succeed - broad and rapid scaling to match the widespread need

A practical resource demonstrating the benefits of a more progressive and less proprietorial approach to knowledge transfer, and makes a strong case for a new, open, technology-enabled approach: - achieving more with less - the importance of a team rather than individualist approach to KT - the benefits of an open innovation approach, for example accessing new knowledge and perspectives through crowd-sourcing (for more see http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/kt/about)

Came across this on a blog for OER

Google have announce­d that the media you upload to your Google Drive account from what­ev­er source you've got - be it your smart­phone, your tablet, your Chrome­book, or your desk­top com­put­er - can now be viewed from Google+ and shared direct­ly as well.