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Tichaona Buzy Musikavanhu; Elizabeth Isabel Scheepers – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2024
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transition to online learning, with synchronous e-learning becoming a critical modality in higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide. This shift, while ensuring educational continuity, has unveiled numerous challenges, especially in developing nations where resources and infrastructure…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Barriers, College Students
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Thankachan, Briju; Moore, David Richard – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), a subset of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), can reduce the cost of purchasing software. Despite the benefit in the initial purchase price of software, deploying software requires total cost that goes beyond the initial purchase price. Total cost is a silent issue of FOSS and can only…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Shared Resources and Services, Open Source Technology, Costs
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Awadhiya, Ashish Kumar; Gowthaman, K. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
Open Universities across the world are embracing ICT based teaching and learning process to disseminate quality education to their learners spread across the globe. In India availability and access of ICT and learner characteristics are uneven and vary from state to state. Hence it is important to establish the facts about ICT access among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education