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Download full textRong Zou; Leilei Jiang; Walton Wider – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2025
This bibliometric analysis explores the rapidly growing field of open education, offering insight into its nature and the wide range of academic topics it covers. This study applies co-citation and co-word analyses approach to critically review 402 publications from the Web of Science database. The aim is to identify emerging topics, seminal…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Open Education, Journal Articles, Bibliometrics
Perifanou, Maria; Economides, Anastasios A. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
Previous studies have mainly investigated major massive open online course (MOOC) platforms such as Coursera, edX, and Udemy. This study used 21 metrics to explore 35 MOOC platforms from across the world. Five Web analytics tools were used to analyze these MOOC platforms using data from MOOC platform directories and exploration of platform sites.…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Global Approach, Partnerships in Education, International Cooperation
A Scoping Review on Open Educational Resources to Support Interactions of Learners with Disabilities
Moon, Jewoong; Park, Yujin – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
This scoping review explored the trends in open educational resources (OER) that support the interactions of learners with disabilities and the challenges of supporting these interactions in such environments. Emerging OER and open educational practices allow learners to interact with digital learning resources in self-regulated learning. Since…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Interaction, Students with Disabilities, Learner Engagement
Bethel, Edward – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
Open educational resources (OER), are openly licensed text, media, and other digital and analog assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and research. Recent research has shown that in courses where open textbooks are assigned, students perform as well as or better than students in similar courses with commercially licensed textbooks.…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Foreign Countries, Textbook Evaluation, Instructional Effectiveness
McGreal, Rory – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Institutions in many jurisdictions are in the process of implementing Open Educational Resources (OER). This short paper is based on a report commissioned by Contact North/Contact Nord as part of their Pockets of Innovation series to better understand the impact of OER implementations at diverse institutions. The investigation looks into 13…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Community Colleges, Universities, Canada Natives
Shah, Mariam Aman; Calonge, David Santandreu – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the role Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can play in improving access to education globally, and particularly to thousands of people in developing and developed countries. There is increasing concern, however, that the millions of displaced refugee learners throughout Europe, the Middle…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
DeVries, Irwin – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of how open universities depict their current institutional engagement in open educational practices. In view of the growth of programming for nontraditional students by conventional universities, particularly through online learning and increasing interest in open educational practices, the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Open Universities, Web Sites, Nontraditional Students
Veletsianos, George; VanLeeuwen, Charlene A.; Belikov, Olga; Johnson, Nicole – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Digital education refers to in-person, blended, and fully online learning efforts, as well as attempts to capture a wide range of teaching and learning contexts which make use of digital technology. While digital education is pervasive in Canada, pan-Canadian data on digital education are relatively scarce. The Canadian Digital Learning Research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Online Courses
Venegas-Muggli, Juan I.; Westermann, Werner – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
This article examines the effect of two Open Educational Resources (OER)--Khan Academy Collection and a teacher-authored open textbook--on mathematical course performance and attendance amongst first-year higher education Chilean students. It also aims to find out about teachers' and students' views on the use of OER in order to understand how…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Instructional Effectiveness, College Freshmen, College Mathematics
