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Connolly, Teresa – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Open educational resources (OER) can be described in numerous ways (Creative Commons, 2012). In this visualization based context, however, OER can be defined as ...teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Visualization, Educational Resources
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Kelly, Hope – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Open educational resources (OER) are making their way into a variety of educational contexts from formal lesson planning to just in time learning. Educators and training professionals have been recognized as an important audience for these materials. The concepts of "self-efficacy" and "outcome judgment" from social cognitive…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Self Efficacy, Open Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Gurell, Seth; Kuo, Yu-Chun; Walker, Andrew – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2010
Open education, as embodied in open educational resources (OER) and OpenCourseWare (OCW), has met and dealt with several key problems. The movement now has a critical mass of available content. Leveraging no small amount of funding and associated development, open education has the tools to collect, disseminate, and support the discovery of open…
Descriptors: Open Education, Test Validity, Problem Based Learning, Educational Resources
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Okonkwo, Charity Akuadi – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
Nigeria has joined the global race of teaching and learning in a changing educational environment by adopting open and distance learning (ODL). Although it is a global trend, ODL poses some challenges at local levels, one of which is the untimely production of teaching materials currently affecting instructional delivery in Nigeria. The modern…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Needs Assessment, Foreign Countries
Rennie, Frank; Johannesdottir, Sigurbjorg – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
The recent economic crisis in Iceland has raised issues of the sustainability of Icelandic higher education to new levels of importance. A key strategy in relation to this economic crisis is to consider the merger of the four public universities in Iceland and to introduce a much higher engagement with online and open delivery methods of higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Resources