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Holotescu, Carmen; Slavici, Titus; Cismariu, Liliana; Gotiu, Liliana Olivia Lucaciu; Grosseck, Gabriela; Andone, Diana – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2016
Started in 2008, the new Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) paradigm has brought challenges and innovation at all levels of education, aiming to respond to the most pressing learning needs, generated by the new development policies and the rapid evolution of technology. This paper reports on a project proposed by a group of universities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Educational Innovation, Entrepreneurship
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Falconer, Isobel; Littlejohn, Allison; McGill, Lou; Beetham, Helen – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
Open educational resources (OER) have been promoted as a path to universal education, supporting economic development and intercultural dialogue. However, to realise these benefits requires greater understanding of the factors that influence both OER supply and use. This paper examines an aspect of the supply side of the OER lifecycle--the motives…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Resources, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
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Herodotou, Christothea; Heiser, Sarah; Rienties, Bart – Open Learning, 2017
Randomised control trials (RCTs) are an evidence-based research approach which has not yet been adopted and widely used in open and distance education to inform educational policy and practice. Despite the challenges entailed in their application, RCTs hold the power to robustly evaluate the effects of educational interventions in distance…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Open Education, Distance Education, Feasibility Studies
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Mercado-Varela, Martin Alonso; Beltran, Jesus; Perez, Marisol Villegas; Vazquez, Nohemi Rivera; Ramirez-Montoya, Maria-Soledad – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
The role of facilitators in distance learning environments is of substantial importance in supporting the learning process. This article specifically discusses the role of the facilitator in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), which are characterized by their stimulation of learning connections. The study analyzes the experiences of 135…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Distance Education, Facilitators (Individuals)
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Ngubane-Mokiwa, Sindile A. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This conceptual and exploratory article seeks to explore the implications of the University of South Africa's (Unisa) shift from open distance learning (ODL) to open distance e-learning (ODeL) on Teacher Education. In addition, the article problematizes the shift as a policy imperative. Unisa's mandate to provide teacher education opportunities to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Open Universities, Distance Education
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Hoppe, H. Ulrich – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2016
The 1998 paper by Martin Mühlenbrock, Frank Tewissen, and myself introduced a multi-agent architecture and a component engineering approach for building open distributed learning environments to support group learning in different types of classroom settings. It took up prior work on "multiple student modeling" as a method to configure…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Cooperative Learning, Modeling (Psychology)
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Suleman, Raja M.; Mizoguchi, Riichiro; Ikeda, Mitsuru – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2016
Negotiation mechanism using conversational agents (chatbots) has been used in Open Learner Models (OLM) to enhance learner model accuracy and provide opportunities for learner reflection. Using chatbots that allow for natural language discussions has shown positive learning gains in students. Traditional OLMs assume a learner to be able to manage…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Processing, Models
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Altunoglu, Asu – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
Learner management systems (LMS) are used in open education as a means of managing and recording e-learning facilities as well as improving student engagement. Students benefit from them to become active participants in the decision-making process of their own learning. This study aims to investigate the initial perceptions of students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Surveys, Open Education
Carfagna, Lindsey B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The relationship between learning and labor has long been a topic of concern for sociologists of education. In this dissertation, I conduct an ethnography of open learning in the United States following the 2008 economic crisis and argue that a new style of learning is emerging amidst changes in the labor market. I call that new style of learning…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Education Work Relationship, Ethnography, Labor Market
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Poellhuber, Bruno; Levasseur, Caroline; Roy, Normand – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This study takes a closer look at French-speaking MOOC participants of diverse levels of countrywide development and draws comparisons on the basis of sociodemographic variables, access conditions, academic antecedents, and satisfaction. Results show some important differences between learners from low-income and emerging developing countries…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Access to Education, Higher Education, Developing Nations
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Affouneh, Saida; Wimpenny, Katherine; Ghodieh, Ahmed Ra'fat; Alsaud, Loay Abu; Obaid, Arij Abu – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
This paper will share Discover Palestine, an interdisciplinary Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) and the first MOOC to be created in Palestine, by the E-Learning Centre, Faculty from the Department of Geography, and Department of Tourism and Archaeology from An-Najah National University in Palestine. The paper traces the process of development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Oates, Lauryn; Hashimi, Jamshid – Open Praxis, 2016
The Darakht-e Danesh ("knowledge tree") Online Library is the first open educational resource (OER) initiative in Afghanistan, established to enhance teacher subject-area knowledge, access and use of learning materials, and to foster more diverse teaching methodologies in order to improve learning outcomes in Afghan classrooms. This…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Resources, Usability, Foreign Countries
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Hilton, John, III; Fischer, Lane; Wiley, David; Williams, Linda – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
"Open Educational Resources" (OER) have the potential to replace traditional textbooks in higher education. Previous studies indicate that use of OER results in high student and faculty satisfaction, lower costs, and similar or better educational outcomes. In this case study, we compared students using traditional textbooks with those…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Resources, Graduation Rate, Textbooks
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Avshenyuk, Nataliya – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2016
The article is devoted to the problem of teachers' professional development within the concept of "open educational resources". The author analyzes the project "Massive Open Online Courses" (MOOC) as one of the modern achievements in the area of information and communication technology (ICT) for the development of adult…
Descriptors: Open Education, Faculty Development, Mass Instruction, Global Approach
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Arinto, Patricia Brazil – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
Rapid advances in information and communications technology in the digital age have brought about significant changes in the practice of distance education (DE) worldwide. DE practitioners in the Philippines' open university have coined the term "open and distance e-learning" (ODeL) to refer to the new forms of DE, which are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Open Education, Electronic Learning
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