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Direct linkInger Dagrun Langseth; Dan Yngve Jacobsen; Halvdan Haugsbakken – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
While technological change in organizations is fast and eminent to most people, the adoption of Massive Open Online Courses, micro-credentials, and flexible and scalable online courses, appear to be comparatively slow in Higher Education in the Nordic countries. To explore this phenomenon, we completed 10 qualitative interviews at ten different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, Entrepreneurship, Higher Education
Download full textMesut Demirbilek; Sitar Keser – Qualitative Research in Education, 2024
Open education is an education and instruction network that is widely used to overcome physical and temporal limitations. In the current study, an evaluation was made by taking the opinions of students on the application areas of the open education system in Turkey. In this context, the reasons for students attending open education high schools to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Open Education
Helen J. DeWaard – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2024
Navigating through the Faculty of Education as a teacher educator in Canada is complex and complicated. Research literature calls for an intentional focus on media and digital literacies, and technological competencies, in teacher education. Program directions are confounded by technological trends emerging in kindergarten to grade twelve…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Practices, Teacher Education, Information Technology
Ourania Filippakou – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2025
Can the open universities in the UK and Greece be seen as representing two ideologies of openness? That is the main question this article poses. I argue that these institutions, shaped by their unique social, political and historical contexts, embody different interpretations of openness. The Open University in the UK was founded with a commitment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Open Universities, Educational Practices
Christine Ofulue; Johnson Opateye; Samuel Awolumate; Felix Kayode Olakulehin; Adewale Adesina; Armiya’u M. Yabo; Bibian Ugoala; Oluwaseun Oluyide; Solomon Ojedeji – Journal of Learning for Development, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant weaknesses in education systems globally, with many African countries, including Nigeria, struggling to respond swiftly to its impact. In Nigeria, the challenge was compounded by ongoing insurgency and insecurity, leading to extended school closures. To mitigate these disruptions, educational institutions…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Needs, Resilience (Psychology), Educational Innovation
Shirima, Gennes Hendry – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This paper reports the findings of a study that had examined the operations of open schools for out-of-secondary-school youth and adults in Tanzania. Its objective was to establish the practicality of the policy guidelines in guiding the operations of open schools and the emerging controversies and dynamics in their daily operations. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Out of School Youth, Educational Policy
Terry D. Evans; Viktor Jakupec – Distance Education, 2023
This article considers selected Australian and international theories, policies, and practices of open and distance education, since ODLAA (formerly the Australian and South Pacific External Studies Association) was formed in 1973, through to the current post-pandemic period. It considers the shifting conceptualization of open education as…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Policy, Educational History, Open Universities
Sara Tomoe Ishii-Bear – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2025
This article examines undergraduate students' experiences in creating open educational resources (OERs) in a contemporary art history course. The construction of OERs reflects an interest in feminist pedagogy and open educational practices, which aim to create a learner-centred classroom that values accessibility, equity, and cultural…
Descriptors: Feminism, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Art History
Katrien Van Poeck; Malena Lidar; Eva Lundqvist; Leif Östman – Environmental Education Research, 2025
In the face of the global sustainability crisis, schools and teachers are called on to transform education and implement educational innovations to strengthen sustainability education. One of these innovations is 'open schooling': educational practices that involve students in identifying, exploring, and tackling real-world sustainability problems…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Teaching Methods, Sustainability, Open Education
Baoqing Song; Yilin Dai; Boning Fu; Gongxin Jiang; Yunji Cai; Jun Wu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Aesthetic literacy originates from rich aesthetic experiences, one of the principal ways people gain such experiences is through arts appreciation. Sixty-seven students participated in 119 art appreciation activities at out-of-school public art venues in China. A digital education platform was used to record students' appreciation process. A…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics, Learning Experience, Informal Education
Gómez-Rey, Pilar; Barbera, Elena; Fernández-Navarro, Francisco; Zhang, Jingjing; Teixeira, António Moreira – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
The promotion of life skills in learners is especially challenging in distance and online environments where the learners' physical absence from the classroom hinders the evaluation of these types of skills. Due to the great challenges brought about by this physical absence, there is a lack of empirical studies attempting to examine life skills in…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Questionnaires, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Javiera Atenas; Chrissi Nerantzi; Anna Bussu – Open Praxis, 2023
This paper offers guidance for policymakers and institutions keen on embracing Open Educational Practices within their mentorship strategies, advocating for co-creation and collaboration as foundational principles, to promote a wide range of open practices to foster transparency, inclusivity, creativeness, innovation and collaboration in academic…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Teaching Methods, Mentors, Open Education
Soovendran Varadarajan; Joyce Hwee Ling Koh; Ben Kei Daniel – Distance Education, 2025
Micro-credentials (MCs) are gaining traction in higher education, aligning with Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning (OFDL) ideals. Despite the growing interest, their full impact on academia is still being debated. This highlights the need for research into the institutional factors essential for integrating MCs successfully, particularly as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Microcredentials, College Faculty, Researchers
Stracke, Christian M.; Sharma, Ramesh Chander; Bozkurt, Aras; Burgos, Daniel; Cassafieres, Cécile Swiatek; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; Mason, Jon; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Shon, Jin Gon; Wan, Marian; Agbu, Jane-Frances Obiageli; Farrow, Robert; Karakaya, Özlem; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Ramírez-Montoya, María Soledad; Conole, Grainne; Cox, Glenda; Truong, Vi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
In terms of scale, shock, and disenfranchisement, the disruption to formal education arising from COVID-19 has been unprecedented. Anecdotally, responses from teachers and educators around the world range from heightened caution to being inspired by distance education as the "new normal." Of all the challenges, face-to-face and formal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Open Education, Distance Education
Zuhairi, Aminudin; Raymundo, Maria Rowena Del Rosario; Mir, Kamran – Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2020
Purpose: Quality assurance (QA) in open and distance learning (ODL) has always become universal concerns of stakeholders. The quality of ODL has been confronted with challenges in terms of the diversity of inputs, processes, the complex supply chain management of ODL and recent paradigm shift into online learning. Assuring the quality of ODL are…
Descriptors: Open Education, Distance Education, Educational Quality, Educational Assessment
