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  1. May 2021
    1. OER adoption with learning in the population after OER adoption. Saving significant amounts of money and doing no harm to learning outcomes (or even slightly improving learning outcomes) is clearly a win. However, there are much bigger victories to be won w

      However, there are much bigger victories to be won with openness. There surely bigger victories to be won with openness. For example; the high school boy who published a report for the cause of pancreatic dis-function.

    1. Since the advent of internet the means of communication have greatly expanded, completely transforming the world of news. Journalism is faced with new challenges while the news consumers are ever finding new ways to get informed. An article in The Guardian recently reported how “newspapers face up to the ad crunch in print and digital” (Sweney, 2015), reminding everyone in the industry how uncertain the future of newspapers is at the moment.

      Publishing of news articles online saves time and also it can go far and wide reaching the most rural parts of some countries so that people are aware of what is happening around them.

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    1. The music industry has seen a dramatic impact from the move to digital, online content. Initially sales of CDs were affected by download purchases, but in 2008 even the inclusion of downloads saw music sales at their lowest since 1985 (IFPI 2009)

      With the online content of CDs and music there's no need to go around to purchase them, the digital revolution has made it easy you can just purchase or download it at home or anywhere.

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