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Jen Vanek; Jennifer Maddrell; Jeff Goumas; Rachel Riggs – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2023
Adult educators integrate digital activities into instruction to provide flexible, engaging learning opportunities and help learners gain digital skills. Teachers are eager to create digital resources for their classes, but often are limited by the time and/or skills necessary to do so. A promising free-to-teachers solution employed in…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Shared Resources and Services, Digital Literacy, Open Educational Resources
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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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Wilma Van Staden; Rob O'Donoghue; Heila Lotz-Sisitka – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2023
This formative paper reviews the recent expansion in online teacher education programmes for "Education for Sustainable Development" (ESD) in southern Africa. The research informs the design of resource-based learning. An activity systems approach and a preliminary mapping of the design features for online learning for ESD enabled us to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development, Sustainable Development
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Nilsen, Anders Grov; Almås, Aslaug Grov; Gram, Helene – Designs for Learning, 2020
The purpose of this article is to describe the development and design process of an educational app for teacher training. Online teaching and learning resources are used more than ever in teacher training. However, the utilization of digital technology in higher education shows unambiguously that very little has been transformed or improved so far…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Education Programs
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DeWaard, Helen; Chavhan, Rekha – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2020
This paper offers insight from an informal cross-cultural mentoring experience of course development in higher education framed by the UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning project. The Open Education for a Better World is a tuition-free international online mentoring program established to unlock the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, Open Source Technology
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Yasin Karatay; Volker Hegelheimer – CALICO Journal, 2021
The pandemic in 2020 has profoundly impacted millions of people all around the world. We have experienced intense disruption in our daily lives. We have lost loved ones, jobs, motivation, and precious time that could have been used more productively. The pandemic did not distinguish between borders, race, or gender. It affected everyone but not…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Fernandes, Kathy; Christie, Brett; Bayard, Jean-Pierre; Kennedy, Leslie – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
In 2013, with a 30% state budget cut after the Great Recession, many of the 450,000 California State University (CSU) students across the 23-campus system were unable to enroll in courses they needed to move closer to graduation; there was a lack of available course sections. In addition to a reduced number of seats available for students, 30% to…
Descriptors: State Universities, Educational Innovation, College Faculty, Instructional Design
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Bastiaens, Theo, Ed. – Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2022
The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) is an international, non-profit educational organization. The Association's purpose is to advance the knowledge, theory, and quality of teaching and learning at all levels with information technology. The "EdMedia + Innovate Learning" conference took place in New York,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Flipped Classroom, Online Courses, Student Projects