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Some of my colleagues use Lynda.com to gather playlists from specific elements selected across the hundreds of offered courses. TES Lessons Library. OER and you: The curation mandate. Curation (School Library Monthly). OER: Issues, Possibilities and the Promise of Curation (with Brenda Boyer). LessonPaths.
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