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Mavroudi, Anna; Papanikolaou, Kyparisia – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
Higher education recently found itself in the unprecedented situation of being forced to rapidly switch to online education as a demand of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this article is to compare and contrast the experiences of university tutors who teach in two distance education universities with those who teach in a traditional university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Fernández-Díaz, Elia; Rodríguez-Hoyos, Carlos; Salvador, Adelina Calvo – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
This study has been carried out within the context of the ECO European Project (E-learning, Communication Open-Data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Open Learning) which is being financed by the European Union over four years (2014-17). It analyses the pedagogic architecture of MOOC on pedagogic/educational subjects in Spanish over one academic…
Descriptors: Spanish, Qualitative Research, Video Technology, Questionnaires
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Khalil, Mohammad; Prinsloo, Paul; Slade, Sharon – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
While many strategies for protecting personal privacy rely on regulatory frameworks, consent, and anonymizing data, they are not always effective. Terms and Conditions often lag behind advances in technology, software, and user behaviours, and consent to use data for a range of unclear purposes may be provided unwittingly. As the commercial market…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Jan, Shazia K.; Vlachopoulos, Panos – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
This paper presents the findings of a study on a fully online Bachelor's level course in Health Sciences at a European University conducted to explore the influence of learning design on the formation and evolution of different types of communities of learning. The impetus for the study came from the well-established effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Online Courses, Communities of Practice
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Pozzi, Francesca; Manganello, Flavio; Passarelli, Marcello; Persico, Donatella; Brasher, Andrew; Holmes, Wayne; Whitelock, Denise; Sangrà, Albert – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
University ranking systems are being implemented with the aim of assessing and comparing higher education institutions at a global level. Despite their being increasingly used, rankings are often strongly criticized for their social and economic implications, as well as for limitations in their technical implementation. One of these limitations is…
Descriptors: Reputation, Distance Education, Academic Achievement, Universities
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Rienties, Bart; Herodotou, Christothea; Olney, Tom; Schencks, Mat; Boroowa, Avi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
The importance of teachers in online learning is widely acknowledged to effectively support and stimulate learners. With the increasing availability of learning analytics data, online teachers might be able to use learning analytics dashboards to facilitate learners with different learning needs. However, deployment of learning analytics…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Technology Integration, Online Courses, Data Analysis
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Amigud, Alexander; Arnedo-Moreno, Joan; Daradoumis, Thanasis; Guerrero-Roldan, Ana-Elena – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
This paper presents the results of integrating learning analytics into the assessment process to enhance academic integrity in the e-learning environment. The goal of this research is to evaluate the computational-based approach to academic integrity. The machine-learning based framework learns students' patterns of language use from data,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Integrity, Electronic Learning
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Bonk, Curtis J.; Zhu, Meina; Kim, Minkyoung; Xu, Shuya; Sabir, Najia; Sari, Annisa R. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
This study explores the activities, tools, and resources that instructors of massive open online courses (MOOCs) use to improve the personalization of their MOOCs. Following email interviews with 25 MOOC and open education leaders regarding MOOC personalization, a questionnaire was developed. This questionnaire was then completed by 152 MOOC…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Castaño Muñoz, Jonatan; Colucci, Elizabeth; Smidt, Hanne – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
The increasing number of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe places new demands on European education systems. In this context, the role that free digital learning (FDL) could play in fostering inclusion has attracted renewed interest. While the existing literature highlights some general design principles for developing FDL for migrants and…
Descriptors: Refugees, Immigrants, Educational Technology, Qualitative Research