Why Open Education Needs a Common Language!?
A better question would be: Why do commercial offerings and e-learning platforms dominate online education and “NOT” Open Educational Resources (OER)?
Read MoreData and Analytics for Research Training (DART)
The DART program provides free, open-source educational resources to help biomedical researchers enhance their work with data science skills, offering a customizable learning experience through a modular approach. Funded by the NIH and initiated by the Arcus team at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, it encourages contributions to its development and shares findings from its effectiveness study.
Read MoreFrom Hero to Zero with Learning Management Systems
Learning Management Systems provide more restrictions than access to educational resources and developing courses with the offered authoring tools is more tedious and intimidating task than a creative one. These claims are proved by adopting metrics from software-development, additionally a possible solution is presented: LiaScript is a domain-specific language that is based on Markdown and open-source principles, targeting interactive online-course development.
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