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Download full textRolfe, Vivien – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The global open education movement is striving toward openness as a feature of academic policy and practice, but evidence shows that these ambitions are far from mainstream, and levels of awareness in institutions is often disappointingly low. Those advocating for open education are seeking to widen engagement, but how targeted and persuasive are…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Open Education, Teacher Attitudes, Employee Attitudes
Heinen, Richard; Kerres, Michael; Scharnberg, Gianna; Blees, Ingo; Rittberger, Marc – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2016
The paper describes the concept of a federated ecosystem for Open Educational Resources (OER) in the German education system. Here, a variety of OER repositories (ROER) (Muuß-Merholz & Schaumburg, 2014) and reference platforms have been established in the recent past. In order to develop this ecosystem, not only are metadata standards…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Educational Resources, Open Source Technology, Metadata
Bii, Patrick K.; Too, J. K. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The Government of Kenya has in the recent past been on a serious footing to put in place ICT initiatives and projects aimed at realizing the potential within its recognition of ICT as a foundation for a knowledge economy as per vision 2030. The tempo has risen several notches higher with the current intention and initiative of making available…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Software
Law, Patrina; Jelfs, Anne – Open Praxis, 2016
The Open University (OU) makes a proportion of all its taught modules available to the public via OpenLearn each year. This process involves the modification, of module excerpts, showcasing subject matter and teaching approach. This activity serves both the University's social and business missions through the delivery of free courses to the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Open Universities, Learning Modules, Educational Resources
Direct linkHermans, Henry; Janssen, José; Koper, Rob – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Since the publication of the IMS Learning Design (IMS LD) specification in 2003, many initiatives have been undertaken to build authoring tools that are simple enough to be used by non-technical instructors and teachers. IMS LD's technical complexity is believed to be a major burden for the adoption of the specification. We have developed a new…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Delivery Systems, Database Management Systems, Database Design
Martini, Juliane – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the appropriateness of open-access reading materials for an intensive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course, and to provide teachers with a set of criteria to select online texts systematically and efficiently. The Corpus for Veterinarians (VetCorpus) was compiled and analyzed using Lextutor corpus…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Open Source Technology, Academic Language, Vocabulary Development
Prasad, Deepak; Usagawa, Tsuyoshi – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Textbook prices have soared over the years, with several studies revealing many university students are finding it difficult to afford textbooks. Fortunately, two innovations--open educational resources (OER) and open textbooks--hold the potential to increase textbook affordability. Experts, though, have stated the obvious: that students can save…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Source Technology, Textbooks, College Faculty
Kayal, Soumen; Das, Baisakhi – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2017
One of the most impressive uses of information and communication technology is the advent of e-learning. The current E-learning system mainly plays a role of learning assistance such as providing learning content or learning information, and sometime it provides channels or platform in the learning environment for discussion and interaction. In…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, Courseware, Open Source Technology
Bryant, Rebecca; Dortmund, Annette; Malpas, Constance – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2017
This report provides university and research library leaders with useful insights on emerging practices and infrastructures in European research information management (RIM), on the current and future role of persistent person and organization identifiers, and, more specifically, on incentives and barriers to adoption in three different national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Management, Research Administration, Research Libraries
Schuwer, Robert; Janssen, Ben – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
To find out what is needed to speed up the adoption of open sharing and reuse of learning materials and open online courses in publicly funded Dutch institutions of Higher Education, a qualitative research study was conducted in fall 2016. This study examined issues of willingness of educators and management, barriers and enablers of adoption, and…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Educational Researchers, Shared Resources and Services, Barriers
Bossu, Carina; Fountain, Wendy – Open Praxis, 2015
Addressing the gap between global open educational resource (OER) proliferation and the slow adoption of OER and open educational practices (OEP) in Australian higher education, this paper focuses on a capacity-building project targeting academics, academic support staff and educational developers. The conception, design, development, piloting and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Capacity Building, Open Education, Open Source Technology
Peters, Michael A.; Jandric, Petar; Irwin, Ruth; Locke, Kirsten; Devine, Nesta; Heraud, Richard; Gibbons, Andrew; Besley, Tina; White, Jayne; Forster, Daniella; Jackson, Liz; Grierson, Elizabeth; Mika, Carl; Stewart, Georgina; Tesar, Marek; Brighouse, Susanne; Arndt, Sonja; Lazaroiu, George; Mihaila, Ramona; Legg, Catherine; Benade, Leon – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication.…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Organizations (Groups), Writing Processes, Collaborative Writing
Cotterill, Simon; Hudson, Martyn; Lloyd, Katherine; Outterside, James; Peterson, John; Coburn, John; Thomas, Ulrike; Tiplady, Lucy; Robinson, Phil; Heslop, Phil – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2016
Co-Curate North East is a cross-disciplinary initiative involving Newcastle University and partner organisations, working with schools and community groups in the North East of England. Co-curation builds on the concept of the "ecomuseum" model for heritage based around a virtual territory, social memory and participative input from the…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, Heritage Education, Open Source Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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
Adame, Silvia I.; Llorens, Luis – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This paper presents a description of the metadata harvester software development. This system provides access to reliable and quality educational resources, shared by Mexican Universities through their repositories, to anyone with Internet Access. We present the conceptual and contextual framework, followed by the technical basis, the results and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Metadata, Access to Information
