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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
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Cervantes-Perez, Francisco; Vadillo, Guadalupe; Bucio, Jackeline; Herrera, Alma – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Mexico's national university (UNAM) is a public mega university with a 46-year history in open education. This article presents an analysis based on the open, online, flexible provision of technology-enhanced higher education (OOFAT) model, developed by Orr and his colleagues (2018). The aim of this analysis was to characterize UNAM's open and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Open Education, Distance Education
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Morgan, Tannis; Carey, Stephen – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
Two of the major challenges to international students' right of access to higher education are geographical/economic isolation and academic literacy in English (Carey, 1999; Hamel, 2007). The authors propose that adopting open course models in traditional universities, through blended or online delivery, can offer benefits to the institutions and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Open Education, Online Courses