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Coughlan, Tony; Perryman, Leigh-Anne – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2011
This article explores the relationship between academic disciplines' representation in the United Kingdom Open University's (OU) OpenLearn open educational resources (OER) repository and in the OU's fee-paying curriculum. Becher's (1989) typology was used to subdivide the OpenLearn and OU fee-paying curriculum content into four disciplinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education
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Barrow, Rosemary; Behr, Charlotte; Deacy, Susan; McHardy, Fiona; Tempest, Kathryn – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2010
Employability has become a global buzz-word: instructors in higher education are increasingly being called upon to produce highly employable students who will in turn contribute to the financial capital of the country's economy. For vocational subjects and degrees for which clear links to industry may be envisaged (such as IT, Business, Technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Role of Education, Employment Potential