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Direct linkInger Dagrun Langseth; Dan Yngve Jacobsen; Halvdan Haugsbakken – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
While technological change in organizations is fast and eminent to most people, the adoption of Massive Open Online Courses, micro-credentials, and flexible and scalable online courses, appear to be comparatively slow in Higher Education in the Nordic countries. To explore this phenomenon, we completed 10 qualitative interviews at ten different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, Entrepreneurship, Higher Education
María-Soledad Ramírez-Montoya; May Portuguez-Castro – On the Horizon, 2024
Purpose: The challenges facing 21st-century society are becoming increasingly complex, requiring the development of new citizen competencies. This study aims to validate an educational model focused on developing complex thinking in higher education students. Current educational models lack future-ready competencies, necessitating the emergence of…
Descriptors: Open Education, Models, Higher Education, College Students
Download full textJosé Carlos Vázquez-Parra; Carolina Alcantar-Nieblas; Leonardo David Glasserman Morales; Xiomara Nuñez-Rodríguez – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
This article aims to show the results of implementing a training methodology in a group of participants within an intensive course on educational innovation. The motivation for this course was to promote innovative ideas that could be scaled into possible open educational entrepreneurship projects. Based on descriptive statistical analysis, that…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Thinking Skills, Educational Innovation
Darojat, Ojat; Idrus, Olivia; Ardiasih, Lidwina Sri – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2023
Since COVID-19 pandemic hit the world at the beginning of 2020s, various efforts were made to keep the education process running while still enforcing protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Online learning then becomes an option and inevitability for educational institutions to break the chain of spreading the virus. Furthermore, distance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Open Education
Guzin Kiyik Kicir; Asu Altunoglu – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2024
Organizational culture acts as the mortar that connects the bricks. Every institution has its own unique culture which has been adopted and shared by all employees over the years. As establishment stories, ways of doing business, and communication styles change, culture also adopts itself to these in a way that is specific to that organization.…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Classification, Open Universities, Open Education
Christine Ofulue; Johnson Opateye; Samuel Awolumate; Felix Kayode Olakulehin; Adewale Adesina; Armiya’u M. Yabo; Bibian Ugoala; Oluwaseun Oluyide; Solomon Ojedeji – Journal of Learning for Development, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant weaknesses in education systems globally, with many African countries, including Nigeria, struggling to respond swiftly to its impact. In Nigeria, the challenge was compounded by ongoing insurgency and insecurity, leading to extended school closures. To mitigate these disruptions, educational institutions…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Needs, Resilience (Psychology), Educational Innovation
Shirima, Gennes Hendry – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This paper reports the findings of a study that had examined the operations of open schools for out-of-secondary-school youth and adults in Tanzania. Its objective was to establish the practicality of the policy guidelines in guiding the operations of open schools and the emerging controversies and dynamics in their daily operations. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Out of School Youth, Educational Policy
Schophuizen, Martine; Kreijns, Karel; Stoyanov, Slavi; Rosas, Scott; Kalz, Marco – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2021
Openness in education is not a consistent term or value since "open" is used to describe various things and often means different things to different individuals. In a research context, it is important to identify the many interpretation(s) and perspectives of openness being investigated, especially since the underlying ideas behind…
Descriptors: Open Education, Open Educational Resources, Electronic Learning, Concept Mapping
Pitt, Rebecca; Jordan, Katy; de los Arcos, Beatriz; Farrow, Robert; Weller, Martin – Distance Education, 2020
There has been little research into the impact of textbook costs on higher education in the United Kingdom. To better understand textbook use patterns and the issues faced by UK students and educators the UK Open Textbooks Project (2017-2018, http://ukopentextbooks.org/) conducted quantitative survey research with United Kingdom educators in…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Open Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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
Al-Imarah, Ahmed A.; Shields, Robin; Kamm, Richard – Quality in Higher Education, 2021
Both innovation and quality assurance are prominent concerns in higher education institutions but research is ambiguous with respect to the relationship between quality assurance and innovation. Specifically, it is unclear whether quality assurance supports innovation or, conversely, acts as a hindrance. As a relatively new innovation, massive…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Technological Advancement, Educational Innovation
OECD Publishing, 2023
This analytical report was prepared by the OECD Higher Education Policy Team as part of the Education and Innovation Practice Community (EIPC), an action of the European Union's New European Innovation Agenda, flagship 4 on "Fostering, attracting and retaining deep tech talent". EIPC seeks to bring together peers from policy and practice…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Curriculum Development, Secondary School Curriculum
Hubina, Oksana – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
The article presents the results of the study on the professional and pedagogical aspect of developing open education in higher education institutions in the UK. It is established that as a result of society informatization, the new requirements for training of future specialists arise. Solving requirements means to create an improved open…
Descriptors: Open Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Needs, Electronic Learning
Manyamba, Christopher; Phundulu, Morris; Vally, Zaheedah; Muchesa, Evans; Mosselson, Maureen – Commonwealth of Learning, 2021
As the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) was in the last year of its 2015-2021 strategic plan, COL sought to evaluate the impact of its interventions in open and innovative schooling (OIS) in the period 2018-2021 through an external review. An online quantitative study was carried out in Belize, Malawi, Mozambique, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zambia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cost Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Open Education
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
