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Christine Ofulue; Johnson Opateye; Samuel Awolumate; Felix Kayode Olakulehin; Adewale Adesina; Armiya’u M. Yabo; Bibian Ugoala; Oluwaseun Oluyide; Solomon Ojedeji – Journal of Learning for Development, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant weaknesses in education systems globally, with many African countries, including Nigeria, struggling to respond swiftly to its impact. In Nigeria, the challenge was compounded by ongoing insurgency and insecurity, leading to extended school closures. To mitigate these disruptions, educational institutions…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Needs, Resilience (Psychology), Educational Innovation
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Gómez-Rey, Pilar; Barbera, Elena; Fernández-Navarro, Francisco; Zhang, Jingjing; Teixeira, António Moreira – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
The promotion of life skills in learners is especially challenging in distance and online environments where the learners' physical absence from the classroom hinders the evaluation of these types of skills. Due to the great challenges brought about by this physical absence, there is a lack of empirical studies attempting to examine life skills in…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Questionnaires, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Stracke, Christian M.; Sharma, Ramesh Chander; Bozkurt, Aras; Burgos, Daniel; Cassafieres, Cécile Swiatek; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; Mason, Jon; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Shon, Jin Gon; Wan, Marian; Agbu, Jane-Frances Obiageli; Farrow, Robert; Karakaya, Özlem; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Ramírez-Montoya, María Soledad; Conole, Grainne; Cox, Glenda; Truong, Vi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
In terms of scale, shock, and disenfranchisement, the disruption to formal education arising from COVID-19 has been unprecedented. Anecdotally, responses from teachers and educators around the world range from heightened caution to being inspired by distance education as the "new normal." Of all the challenges, face-to-face and formal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Open Education, Distance Education
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Pamela Walsh; Cindy Ives; Beth Perry – OTESSA Journal, 2023
This paper presents the findings of our exploration of our open educational practices (OEP) with graduate students. As reflective practitioners, we used a self-study methodology and collaborative autoethnographic methods to interrogate our open approaches to teaching and supervision. We draw on our developing competencies to support the wisdom,…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Practices, Graduate Students, Ethnography
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Curtis J. Bonk; Meina Zhu – ECNU Review of Education, 2024
Purpose: We describe a series of more than a dozen studies on self-directed online learning spanning over a decade. Design/Approach/Methods: We incorporated surveys, interviews, focus groups, and content analyses into these research studies, which initially targeted the goals, motivations, and challenges of learners using open educational…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Independent Study, MOOCs, Educational Research
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Collier, Amy; Ross, Jen – Open Praxis, 2017
This article traces a line through contemporary critical perspectives on open online education, which challenge an emphasis on content and access that gives too much weight to instrumental goals of education. This article offers the concept of "not-yetness" as a productive lens for examining alternative meanings of openness. Not-yetness…
Descriptors: Open Education, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Discourse Analysis
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Jo-Anne Botha; Ingrid Potgieter – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2024
This study explores whether a range of socio-demographical factors predict adult learner self-directedness in the context of South African open and distance e-learning higher education (ODeLHE). We observe significant differences between socio-demographical groups in the sub-dimensions of the Adult Learner Self-Directedness Scale. The study…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Personal Autonomy, Distance Education, Higher Education
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Bonnie Stewart; Nick Baker – OTESSA Conference Proceedings, 2021
This paper outlines the design and purpose of an open educational resource (OER) project focused on developing digital literacies and open educational practice (OEP) within a Canadian Faculty of Education. Called The Open Page, the project features a Tool Parade of videos and podcasts created with and by Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) students).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Digital Literacy, Faculty
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Arinto, Patricia Brazil – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
Rapid advances in information and communications technology in the digital age have brought about significant changes in the practice of distance education (DE) worldwide. DE practitioners in the Philippines' open university have coined the term "open and distance e-learning" (ODeL) to refer to the new forms of DE, which are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Open Education, Electronic Learning
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Horn, Michael B. – Education Next, 2014
If 2012 was the year of the MOOC--massive open online course--then 2013 was the year the MOOC hype returned to Earth. Largely lost in the coverage in both years, however, was the impact MOOCs might have in high schools. Although the jury is still out on that question, high schools around the country are experimenting with adding MOOCs to their…
Descriptors: High Schools, Open Education, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
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Thakran, Archana; Sharma, Ramesh C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
Over the past two decades, the education sector in India has undergone a substantial transformation. Recent advances in technology have provided access to high quality educational resources and information on the Internet. This article examines the role of open educational resources (OER) in addressing the challenges of higher education in India,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Resources, Open Source Technology
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MacDonald, Patrick; Ahern, Terence C. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2015
Technology offers new and innovative ways to deliver learning such as the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The MOOC offers institutes of higher education a potential delivery method for delivering online learning. This study utilized a qualitative method to gather and analyze an active observer's experience within a MOOC. The results aligned…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Open Education
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Schreurs, Bieke; Van den Beemt, Antoine; Prinsen, Fleur; Witthaus, Gabi; Conole, Gráinne; De Laat, Maarten – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
By investigating how educational practitioners participate in activities around open educational practices (OEP), this paper aims at contributing to an understanding of open practices and how these practitioners learn to use OEP. Our research is guided by the following hypothesis: Different social configurations support a variety of social…
Descriptors: Open Education, Socialization, Lifelong Learning, Electronic Learning
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Meiszner, Andreas, Ed.; Squires, Lin, Ed. – Advances in Digital Education and Lifelong Learning, 2013
This volume takes a look at the emergence of open education as a concept, a production process and a delivery preference in the world of education and learning. Drawing on early lessons from around the globe the book lays out how formal education, workplace learning and lifelong learning have been impacted so far by open education and how they…
Descriptors: Open Education, Lifelong Learning, Educational Trends, Global Approach
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Thille, Candace; Schneider, Emily; Kizilcec, René F.; Piech, Christopher; Halawa, Sherif A.; Greene, Daniel K. – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2014
The article addresses the question of how the assessment process with large-scale data derived from online learning environments will be different from the assessment process without it. Following an explanation of big data and how it is different from previously available learner data, we describe three notable features that characterize…
Descriptors: Data, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Case Studies
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