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Name: Why OER?
ID: m15211
Language: English (en)
Summary: Why consider using open educational resources? This module will cover the what and why of OER and how you can get started using OER materials in OER Commons.
Subject: Social Sciences
Keywords: context, course, courses, curriculum, iskme, knowledge management, learning, lecture notes, lectures, oercommons, oer commons, oer portal, open education, open educational resources, open education content, open education portal, open source, open source education, syllabi, teacher, teaching
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)

Authors: ISKME (amee@iskme.org)
Copyright Holders: ISKME (amee@iskme.org)
Maintainers: Patricia Delich (pdelich@elearningnetworks.com), Amee Godwin (amee@iskme.org), Lisa Petrides (lisa@iskme.org), Cynthia Jimes (cynthia@iskme.org)

Version: 1.16 (history)
Created: Sep 10, 2007 2:02 pm GMT-5
Revised: Feb 8, 2008 4:04 pm US/Central

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Version: 1.16 Feb 8, 2008 4:04 pm US/Central by Amee Godwin
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Version: 1.15 Feb 8, 2008 3:48 pm US/Central by Amee Godwin
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Version: 1.14 Oct 13, 2007 1:07 am GMT-5 by Patricia Delich
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Version: 1.11 Oct 12, 2007 1:09 pm GMT-5 by Amee Godwin
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Version: 1.10 Oct 11, 2007 4:47 pm GMT-5 by Patricia Delich
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