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Weiland, Steven – Global Education Review, 2015
Educational relations between societies and cultures that begin with benevolent intentions can come to be seen as threats to national autonomy and local preferences. Indeed, side by side with the growth since the first years of this century of Open Educational Resources (OER) there has been worry about their impact on global educational…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Resources, Online Courses, Educational Development
Albers, Peggy; Cho, A. Ram; Shin, Ji Hye; Pang, Myoung Eun; Angay-Crowder, Tuba; Jung, Jin Kyeong; Pace, Christi L.; Sena, Mandi; Turnbull, Sarah – Global Education Review, 2015
This paper reflects an OER (Open Educational Resources) critical literacy project, Global Conversations in Literacy Research (GCLR), (www.globalconversationsinliteracy.wordpress.com), now in its fourth year. GCLR annually hosts seven web seminars presented by internationally recognized literacy and education scholars. We outline key dimensions of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Open Education, Educational Resources, Critical Literacy
Al-Jumeily, Dhiya; Hussain, Abir; Alghamdi, Mohammed; Dobbins, Chelsea; Lunn, Jan – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2015
Recent advancements in technology have enabled a shift to occur in teaching and learning. We are living in a connected world where physical boundaries of attending an institution to gain an education no longer apply. There are currently thousands of courses available online that do not require formal attendance. As such, this era of "open…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Collaborative Writing, Educational Technology
Parke, Karl; Marsden, Nicola; Connolly, Cornelia – Open Praxis, 2017
Computer-mediated communication and remote collaboration has become an unexceptional norm as an educational modality for distance and open education, therefore the need to research and analyze students' online learning experience is necessary. This paper seeks to examine the assumptions and expectations held by students in regard to…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Rural Areas, Open Education, Distance Education
Núñez, José Luis Martín – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2017
Open education has revolutionized the educational environment. Massive open online courses have become the main showcase for open educational resources, but the competition to establish a position in this movement has led to the rapid publication of many courses of arguable quality. This paper presents and analyzes the process of creating a small…
Descriptors: Open Education, Online Courses, Barriers, Educational Change
Kaatrakoski, Heli; Littlejohn, Allison; Hood, Nina – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
Open education, including the use of open educational resources (OER) and the adoption of open education practice, has the potential to challenge educators to change their practice in fundamental ways. This paper forms part of a larger study focusing on higher education educators' learning from and through their engagement with OER. The first part…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Resource Units, Shared Resources and Services, Open Education
Fößl, Thomas; Ebner, Martin; Schön, Sandra; Holzinger, Andreas – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
Seamless Learning shall initiate human learning processes that exceeds lesson and classroom limits. At the same time this approach fosters a self-regulated learning, by means of inspirational, open education settings. Advanced learning materials are easily accessible via mobile digital devices connected to the Internet. In this study it was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students, Video Technology, Incentives
Thakran, Archana; Sharma, Ramesh C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
Over the past two decades, the education sector in India has undergone a substantial transformation. Recent advances in technology have provided access to high quality educational resources and information on the Internet. This article examines the role of open educational resources (OER) in addressing the challenges of higher education in India,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Resources, Open Source Technology
Wiley, David; Williams, Linda; DeMarte, Daniel; Hilton, John – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
A growing body of research confirms the financial and academic benefits that accrue to students whose faculty adopt open educational resources, or OER. While there are no content licensing costs associated with using OER, there are several real costs that must be incurred by an institution that chooses to support its faculty in adopting OER. The…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Open Education, Costs, College Faculty
MacKinnon, Teresa; Pasfield-Neofitou, Sarah – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
Language education faculty face myriad challenges in finding teaching resources that are suitable, of high quality, and allow for the modifications needed to meet the requirements of their course contexts and their learners. The article elaborates the grassroots model of "produsage" (a portmanteau of "production" and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Open Education, Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources, ICT and Virtual Communities for Content and Language Integrated Learning
Cinganotto, Letizia; Cuccurullo, Daniela – Teaching English with Technology, 2016
The present contribution is aimed at describing one of the latest trends in the European school curricula: the teaching of subject content in a foreign language (CLIL), which is becoming more and more popular all over Europe, also bearing in mind the latest recommendations from the European Commission. Starting with a brief theoretical background…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Resources, Educational Quality, Second Language Learning
Fernández, José Vida; Webster, Susan – Open Praxis, 2014
The emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is focusing all its attention on open education. There is growing interest in creating MOOCs, which can be done by transferring OCW courses to MOOC format. However, a series of doubts arise regarding the pros and cons implied in this transformation. In this paper we discuss the conclusions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Courseware, Educational Technology, Access to Education
Medeiros Vieira, Leandro Mauricio; Ferasso, Marcos; Schröeder, Christine da Silva – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2014
This theoretical essay is a learning approach reflexion on Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and the possibilities provided by the education model known as open and distance learning. Open and distance learning can revolutionize traditional pedagogical practice, meeting the needs of those who have different forms of cognitive…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Open Education, Distance Education, Cognitive Style
Weller, Martin – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2013
In this article the author argues that openness in education has been successful in establishing itself as an approach. However, this initial victory should be viewed as part of a larger battle around the nature of openness. Drawing lessons from history and the green movement, a number of challenges for the open education movement are identified…
Descriptors: Open Education, Higher Education, Role of Education, Online Courses
Brown, Tom H. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
Barber, Donnelly & Rizvi (2013): "An avalanche is coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead" addresses some significant issues in higher education and poses some challenging questions to open and distance learning (ODL) administrators, policy makers, and of course to ODL faculty in general. Barber et al.'s paper does not…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Open Education, Educational Change