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Download full textCervantes-Perez, Francisco; Vadillo, Guadalupe; Bucio, Jackeline; Herrera, Alma – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Mexico's national university (UNAM) is a public mega university with a 46-year history in open education. This article presents an analysis based on the open, online, flexible provision of technology-enhanced higher education (OOFAT) model, developed by Orr and his colleagues (2018). The aim of this analysis was to characterize UNAM's open and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Open Education, Distance Education
da Silva, Welinton Baxto; Amaro, Rosana; Mattar, João – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Correspondence courses have been offered in Brazil since the late 19th century; in the 20th century, instructional media such as radio and television were successfully used long before the introduction of the Internet. However, distance education (DE) was officially established in Brazil only in 1996 by the National Educational Law of Policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Open Universities, Educational History
Jeong, Hanmo – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
This paper considers the current state of the United Kingdom Open University (UKOU) and the implications for the evolution of higher education, whether through open or traditional institutions. Although 50 years have passed since the establishment of UKOU, the first open university, such institutions seem to be losing their ground, notably because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Educational History, Educational Development
Bozkurt, Aras – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Open and Distance Learning (ODL) has a long history, one marked by the emergence of open universities, which was a critical development in the ecology of openness. Open universities have taken on significant local and global roles within the framework of meeting the needs of their respective regions of influence, and as such, their roles have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Distance Education, Educational History
Guri-Rosenblit, Sarah – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
This article examines the innovative past of the large-scale, single-mode open universities that follow the model of the UK Open University (UKOU), analyzes the main challenges which they are currently facing in the digital era, and concludes with highlighting leading prospects for their future operation. The establishment of the UKOU in 1969…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Educational History, Educational Trends, Distance Education
Béché, Emmanuel – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
This article is a literature review on open distance learnings (ODL) in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa (FSSA). The state of research on this question highlights many topics, such as the supporting reasons for the creation of ODL systems and their potentials. Success, difficulties, and issues linked to their implementation also hold a crucial place…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Open Education, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
Schuwer, Robert; Gil-Jaurena, Inés; Aydin, Cengiz Hakan; Costello, Eamon; Dalsgaard, Christian; Brown, Mark; Jansen, Darco; Teixeira, Antonio – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) movement is the latest "big thing" in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) which threatens to transform Higher Education. Both opportunities and threats are extensively discussed in literature, comprising issues on opening up education for the whole world, pedagogy and online versus campus education.…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Mass Instruction, Open Universities, Higher Education
