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Open Educational Resources (OER) Usage and Barriers: A Study from Zhejiang University, China
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Hu, Ermei; Li, Yan; Li, Jessica; Huang, Wen-Hao – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2015
Open educational resources (OER) as an innovation to share educational resources has been influential in past decade and expected to bring changes to higher education worldwide. There is, however, very limited literature on OER usage, especially from the perspective of college students in developing countries, who are often projected as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services
Students' Perceptions of Blackboard and Moodle in a Portuguese University
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Carvalho, Ana; Areal, Nelson; Silva, Joaquim – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The use of learning management systems (LMS) has grown considerably in universities around the world. The University of Minho (UM) has pioneered in this area in Portugal, adopting Blackboard as its official LMS. Moodle is also used in UM in scattered initiatives, allowing for interesting comparisons. Previous studies comparing Blackboard and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement, Preferences
Could It Be Possible to Replace DERIVE with MAXIMA?
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Garcia, Alfonsa; Garcia, Francisco; Rodriguez, Gerardo; de la Villa, Agustin – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2011
In recent years, a considerable number of teachers in Spain have been using DERIVE to teach math subjects in High Schools and Universities. This software has been used by the authors of this work as a support tool in Mathematics courses for Engineering. Since Texas Instruments does not support DERIVE, we were faced with finding an alternative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Computer Software
Open Textbooks and Increased Student Access and Outcomes
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Feldstein, Andrew; Martin, Mirta; Hudson, Amy; Warren, Kiara; Hilton, John, III; Wiley, David – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2012
This study reports findings from a year-long pilot study during which 991 students in 9 core courses in the Virginia State University School of Business replaced traditional textbooks with openly licensed books and other digital content. The university made a deliberate decision to use open textbooks that were copyrighted under the Creative…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Course Content, Textbooks, Curriculum Implementation
An Approach to Folksonomy-Based Ontology Maintenance for Learning Environments
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Gasevic, D.; Zouaq, Amal; Torniai, Carlo; Jovanovic, J.; Hatala, Marek – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2011
Recent research in learning technologies has demonstrated many promising contributions from the use of ontologies and semantic web technologies for the development of advanced learning environments. In spite of those benefits, ontology development and maintenance remain the key research challenges to be solved before ontology-enhanced learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Language Processing, Computer Interfaces, Web 2.0 Technologies
Document-Oriented E-Learning Components
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Piotrowski, Michael – Online Submission, 2009
This dissertation questions the common assumption that e-learning requires a "learning management system" (LMS) such as Moodle or Blackboard. Based on an analysis of the current state of the art in LMSs, we come to the conclusion that the functionality of conventional e-learning platforms consists of basic content management and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Internet, Integrated Learning Systems