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Direct linkMurat Özdemir; Fatma Kesik; Baris Uslu; Ahmet Aypay; Alper Çalikoglu – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
This research explores how boundary-spanning efforts in higher education can be expanded through the digital space and contribute to sustainability in higher education. By employing a qualitative case study design, we examine the journey of a Turkish public university's open education faculty, focusing on how the university has leveraged its open…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Sustainability, Electronic Learning
Download full textAbdulvahap Sönmez; Nilgün Özdamar – Open Praxis, 2024
The aim of this study is to examine the variables that influence the learners' intention of using online learning platforms and usage behavior continuity to evaluate relationships between variables with a model proposal and to determine the predictive power of the model. Accordingly, a sustained technology acceptance model (STAM) was developed to…
Descriptors: Intention, Electronic Learning, Open Education, Student Behavior
Kara, Mehmet – Open Praxis, 2022
The current study investigated the open and distance learning vision of higher education institutions in Turkey and revealed several implications for leadership. Considering the potential overlap between vision and mission statements, both of the statements used by 82 units within higher education institutions were qualitatively investigated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Higher Education, Position Papers
Stracke, Christian M.; Sharma, Ramesh Chander; Bozkurt, Aras; Burgos, Daniel; Cassafieres, Cécile Swiatek; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; Mason, Jon; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Shon, Jin Gon; Wan, Marian; Agbu, Jane-Frances Obiageli; Farrow, Robert; Karakaya, Özlem; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Ramírez-Montoya, María Soledad; Conole, Grainne; Cox, Glenda; Truong, Vi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
In terms of scale, shock, and disenfranchisement, the disruption to formal education arising from COVID-19 has been unprecedented. Anecdotally, responses from teachers and educators around the world range from heightened caution to being inspired by distance education as the "new normal." Of all the challenges, face-to-face and formal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Open Education, Distance Education
Kip Kayabas, Buket – Online Submission, 2020
The aim of this study is to examine the main cooperative educational programs from past to present; to illustrate the design, components, operational process and the learning environments of the Cooperative e-Certificate Program designed for lifelong learning and carried out through open and distance learning; to investigate relevant experiences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Distance Education, Lifelong Learning
Duzenli, Hulya; Ozdamar, Nilgun; Bozkurt, Aras – Online Submission, 2019
Being a complex social process, open and distance learning includes many different dynamics and interaction elements. Activity theory provides a comprehensive framework for understanding complex human interactions and the lack of appropriate methods to address the complexity of online learning environments. The main purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Open Education, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
Altinpulluk, Hakan; Kesim, Mehmet – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2021
In this study, 59 SSCI-indexed articles published between 2012 and 2017 in the Web of Science database were analyzed by systematic review, identified by the keywords "Learning Management Systems / LMS" in their titles. This study aims to determine the current situation and future trends in using LMSs as one of the tools that are getting…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Trends
Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Kondakci, Yasar; Bedenlier, Svenja; Alturki, Uthman; Aldraiweesh, Ahmed; Püplichhuysen, Diana – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2015
In many countries, "open and distance education" is perceived as a way to meet the growing need for higher education. This paper explores the development of online and distance education in three countries that are still a white spot on the landscape of international distance education research although they have implemented elaborated…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Comparative Education, Open Education, Online Courses
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
Koçak, Ömer; Yildirim, Önder; Kursun, Engin; Yildirim, Gürkan – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2016
The increase in tablet computers and e-books use brings to mind the question of how users benefited from these technologies. In this sense, the present study investigated the status of students' tablet computers and e-books use and the reasons why students prefer to use and not use of tablet computers and e-books. Students' study habits while…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Foreign Countries
Cekerol, Kamil – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
Failure to meet considerably high demand for higher education in Turkey has always been one of the most significant concerns of Turkish Higher Education System for many years. In this respect, Anadolu University Open Education Faculty has played a significant role in the attempts to overcome this problem in Turkey for the last three decades. In…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Open Education
A Review of Communication Elements and Learner Support Services in Turkish Distance Education System
Usun, Salih – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2003
The aim of this study is to review the Turkish distance education system, Open Education Faculty (OEF), from the point of view of the communication' elements and learner support services. The study, firstly, introduces the related literature and the growth of distance education in Turkey; explains generally the communication and interaction…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Open Education, Higher Education, College Faculty
Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education
