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Direct linkZablith, Fouad; Fernandez, Miriam; Rowe, Matthew – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
Linked Data increases the value of an organisation's data over the web by introducing explicit and machine processable links at the data level. We have adopted this new stream of data representation to produce and expose existing data within The Open University (OU) as Linked Data. We present in this paper our approach for producing the data,…
Descriptors: Data, Metadata, Open Universities, Social Networks
Callaghan, George; Fribbance, Ian – Open Learning, 2016
Social media platforms such as Facebook are commonplace throughout society. However, within higher education institutions such networking environments are still in the developmental stage. This paper describes and discusses case study data from the Open University's Faculty of Social Science Facebook page. It starts by giving an overview of the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Communities of Practice, Distance Education, Case Studies
Download full textAbeywardena, Ishan Sudeera; Chan, Chee Seng; Tham, Choy Yoong – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
The open educational resources (OER) movement has gained momentum in the past few years. With this new drive towards making knowledge open and accessible, a large number of OER repositories have been established and made available online throughout the world. However, the inability of existing search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing to…
Descriptors: Resource Units, Shared Resources and Services, Computer Uses in Education, Online Searching
Yu, Hong Qing; Pedrinaci, C.; Dietze, S.; Domingue, J. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2012
Multimedia educational resources play an important role in education, particularly for distance learning environments. With the rapid growth of the multimedia web, large numbers of educational video resources are increasingly being created by several different organizations. It is crucial to explore, share, reuse, and link these educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Internet
Issack, Santally Mohammad – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2011
Over the recent years, there has been a growing interest in Open Educational Resources (OER). A similar trend was observed about a decade ago in the concept of Learning Objects, which inevitably faded without really making an impact in real-world educational contexts. A number of repositories were created that contain thousands of learning…
Descriptors: Open Education, Online Courses, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
