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Karatas, Erinç; Yilmaz, Ayse Bagriacik; Karatas, Serçin; Banyard, Phil – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2022
Introduction: Open educational e-resources (OERs) are one of the informational resources that are openly available to all. Open educational e-resources provide learners with free access to high-quality educational content and materials. Learners should be able to use, read, adapt, and share these resources freely. In this study, we aimed to…
Descriptors: Intention, Open Educational Resources, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
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Simon M. Hutchinson; Karen L. Bacon; M. Jane Bunting; Elizabeth R. Hurrell – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project is a collaborative initiative bringing palaeoscientists together to locate, access and share online educational resources (OERs). It began as a response to the 2020 shift to online learning when the COVID-19 pandemic curtailed field and lab work. We outline the development and initial outcomes of the…
Descriptors: Paleontology, Open Educational Resources, Electronic Learning, Shared Resources and Services
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Maria Zimmermann; Elisabeth Mayweg-Paus; Theresa Ruwe; Fiona Maine – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2023
For teaching practice to be useful, educational materials must be thoroughly evaluated prior to use. In this study, teachers evaluated open educational resources (OER) created for a European Commission Horizon 2020 project called DIALLS ('DIalogue and Argumentation for cultural Literacy Learning in Schools'). Considering research on how OER are…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Open Educational Resources, Cultural Literacy, Dialogs (Language)
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Robert Farrow; Paz Díez-Arcón – Open Praxis, 2024
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are either in the public domain or published on an open licence which permits various forms of redistribution, reuse and repurposing. Many organisations and higher education institutions around the world are using such resources, and anecdotally many believe this is…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Educational Innovation, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Schultz, Teresa Auch; Azadbakht, Elena – College & Research Libraries, 2021
This project sought to study how much academic librarians who work with open educational resources (OERs) know about accessibility, as well as how they incorporate accessibility into the products of their work. A survey was sent out through email list services in spring 2020, and any librarian worldwide who works with OERs was invited to…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Huu-Bich Nguyen; Nguyen Quang Duy Vu; Duc-Tai Dinh; Hiep-Hung Pham – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2025
This bibliometric study investigates the evolution and trends in quality assurance in distance higher education (QADHE) through a comprehensive analysis of Scopus-indexed publications spanning from 1993 to 2024. The research aims to address several critical aspects, including publication trends, international collaboration networks, influential…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Bibliometrics
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Havemann, Leo; Roberts, Verena – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2021
This paper is based on the authors' experiences and reflections working in educational technology and design support roles in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. We retrace our lived experience from the beginning of the pandemic in the spring (from our vantage points in the UK and Canada) and the associated 'pivot online' enacted in…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, COVID-19, Pandemics, Open Educational Resources
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Pitt, Rebecca; Jordan, Katy; de los Arcos, Beatriz; Farrow, Robert; Weller, Martin – Distance Education, 2020
There has been little research into the impact of textbook costs on higher education in the United Kingdom. To better understand textbook use patterns and the issues faced by UK students and educators the UK Open Textbooks Project (2017-2018, http://ukopentextbooks.org/) conducted quantitative survey research with United Kingdom educators in…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Open Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Maag, Taylor – Progressive Policy Institute, 2023
Just decades ago, the internet was an entirely new concept, but it's become second nature for billions of people and is now embedded into daily life across the world. While the internet is old news, there are recent technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and the cloud that have gone from niche, specialized roles in the global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Information Technology, Technological Literacy
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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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Howard Scott; Matthew Smith – Open Learning, 2024
This paper outlines how digital technologies support innovation in teaching and learning the English language across Palestinian Higher Education Institutes. A European project collaborated to build staff capacity in knowledge and skills, shown here through the redesign of curricula, pedagogical training, the design and implementation of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Digital Literacy, English Language Learners, English (Second Language)
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Ayoub, Arshia; Amin, Raashida; Wani, Zahid Ashraf – Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2020
Purpose: The recent spate of eminence received by the MOOCs (massive open online courses) from media to academia is revolutionary in higher education. MOOCs are a disruptive technological innovation which offers open learning with the aid of the internet and delivered by the faculty of reputed institutions, globally. Since Coursera being one such…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Online Courses, Integrated Learning Systems, Foreign Countries
OECD Publishing, 2023
This analytical report was prepared by the OECD Higher Education Policy Team as part of the Education and Innovation Practice Community (EIPC), an action of the European Union's New European Innovation Agenda, flagship 4 on "Fostering, attracting and retaining deep tech talent". EIPC seeks to bring together peers from policy and practice…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Curriculum Development, Secondary School Curriculum
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Farrow, Robert; Pitt, Rebecca; Weller, Martin – Education for Information, 2020
The paper introduces the "UK Open Textbooks" project and discusses its success factors with regards to promoting open practice and open pedagogy. Textbooks remain a core part of educational provision in science. Open Textbooks are openly licensed academic textbooks, wherein the digital version is available freely, and the print version…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation, STEM Education
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Pulker, Hélène; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes – Distance Education, 2020
Open educational practices (OEP) as a research field is relatively new. One aspect that has received limited attention is the impact of using open educational resources (OER) on the development of OEP. This article, based on a doctoral study (Pulker, 2019), considers teachers' activities when reusing and adapting OER, with a view to providing…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Curriculum Development
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