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Hermans, 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
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Parkavi, A.; Vetrivelan, N. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Flipped course is used in well-developed educational institutions and technologically developed countries. It is quite experimental in nature for resource restricted educational institutions and developing countries. In this paper such cases are considered, where faculties make use of free resources available for conducting flipped courses.…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Active Learning, Case Studies, Curriculum Design
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Garrison, Brian Wade – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2013
After providing access to over 100 video interviews conducted by a professor with notable entertainers and personalities from film through an institutional repository, an experiment was conducted to discover whether a larger audience could be gained by adding a subset of 32 of these videos to YouTube. The results, over 400,000 views, indicate that…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Delivery Systems, Online Systems, Internet
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Gaba, Ashok K.; Li, Wei – Open Praxis, 2015
India and China are two fast growing economies of the world and need large skill based manpower to sustain the economic growth. The existing formal higher educational system in these countries will not be able to meet the demand of the economy. The paper will try (i) to compare the development of economy and distance education in India and China…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Development, Educational History
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Hilton, John, III; Wiley, David A.; Lutz, Neil – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
An important element of open educational resources (OER) is the permission to use the materials in new ways, including revising and remixing them. Prior research has shown that the revision and remix rates for OER are relatively low. In this study we examined the extent to which the openly licensed "Flat World Knowledge" textbooks were being…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Textbooks, Open Source Technology, Textbook Content