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Download full textHui Yang – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2025
This study explored the impact of digital technologies on the development of musical skills among music students. A learning experiment was conducted with 66 students between the ages of 18 and 21 from China, France, Italy, and Spain. The study used the methods of a survey and online discussions. Participants verified that the present advancement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Music Education, Music
Ngatoiatu Rohmani; Deby Zulkarnaen; Puji Winar Cahyo – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2024
Nursing care is the most critical element in nursing services, which aims to improve the patient's health status. Ineffective and inefficient care documentation can impact the quality of nursing services. However, the increasingly advanced development of technology provides freedom for the health world to improve the quality of patient-centered…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nursing Students, Health Services, Documentation
Yunze He; Meiyou Ding; Min Liu; Leyang Wu; Zheyuan Liu; Haiyan Guo; Hongjin Wang – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2024
Sensing and Detection Technology is a core course in engineering specialties. Traditional sensor teaching methods have obvious deficiencies in cultivating students' ability. To better foster students' comprehensive qualities, this study explored a 4D1P (Four Dimensions and One Penetration) teaching mode. We independently developed an industrial…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering Technology, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning
Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2023
Extended reality (XR), which encompasses virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), offers powerful affordances for improving teaching and learning experiences in a post-pandemic world. Increasingly, many governments and institutions around the world are making major investments in XR technologies to prepare education…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education, Sustainable Development, Barriers
Lane, David C.; Goode, Claire – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
This paper describes the functionality, scalability, and cost of implementing and maintaining a suite of open source technologies, which have supported hundreds of thousands of learners in the past year, on an information technology infrastructure budget of less than US$10,000 per year. In addition, it reviews pedagogical opportunities offered by…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Postsecondary Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Skordaki, Efrosyni-Maria; Bainbridge, Susan – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
This paper presents the results of a research study on scientific software training in blended learning environments. The investigation focused on training approaches followed by scientific software users whose goal is the reliable application of such software. A key issue in current literature is the requirement for a theory-substantiated…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Lim, Janine; Covrig, Duane; Freed, Shirley; De Oliveira, Becky; Ongo, Mordekai; Newman, Isadore – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Completing doctoral dissertations is difficult work and may be harder for distance students physically separated from institutional and collegial supports. Inability to complete independent research contributes to doctoral student attrition. Factors impacting completion include institutional factors, student characteristics, and supervisory…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Distance Education
Raspopovic, Miroslava; Cvetanovic, Svetlana; Medan, Ivana; Ljubojevic, Danijela – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The aim of this paper is to present the learning and teaching styles using the Social Learning Environment (SLE), which was developed based on the computer supported collaborative learning approach. To avoid burdening learners with multiple platforms and tools, SLE was designed and developed in order to integrate existing systems, institutional…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Socialization
Thankachan, Briju; Moore, David Richard – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), a subset of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), can reduce the cost of purchasing software. Despite the benefit in the initial purchase price of software, deploying software requires total cost that goes beyond the initial purchase price. Total cost is a silent issue of FOSS and can only…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Shared Resources and Services, Open Source Technology, Costs
Kasani, Hamed Abbasi; Mourkani, Gholamreza Shams; Seraji, Farhad; Rezaeizadeh, Morteza; Abedi, Hojjat – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
This study investigates and fully identifies the challenges of the Iranian e-learning system. The approach was qualitative and the method was research synthesis. The statistical population consisted of studies from 2006 to 2019 in the field of challenges of the e-learning system of Iran collected with specific keywords from the country's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Barriers
Coelho, José; Teixeira, António; Nicolau, Paula Bacelar; Caeiro, Sandra; Rocio, Vitor – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
MOOCs are a recent phenomenon, although given their impact, they have been subject to a large debate. Several questions have been raised by researchers and educators alike regarding their sustainability, both economically and as an efficient mode of education provision. In this paper we contribute to this discussion by presenting a case study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Open Universities, Educational Technology
Orfanou, Konstantina; Tselios, Nikolaos; Katsanos, Christos – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
Perceived usability affects greatly student's learning effectiveness and overall learning experience, and thus is an important requirement of educational software. The System Usability Scale (SUS) is a well-researched and widely used questionnaire for perceived usability evaluation. However, surprisingly few studies have used SUS to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Usability, Computer Software Evaluation, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning
