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Ainhoa Alvarez; Mikel Villamañe – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Assessment is a key element in any course, and providing students with a balance between formative and summative assessments is crucial. Defining such a process is a complex task for teachers and often entails a great workload. This makes it necessary to have tools to help in the assessment process definition and its monitoring. This paper first…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Learning Management Systems, Student Evaluation, College Students
Pearce, Joshua M.; Tiwari, Shardul; Pascaris, Alexis S.; Schelly, Chelsea – Cogent Education, 2022
To accelerate scientific progress by advancing the spread of open access and free and open source software and hardware in academia, this study surveyed university professors in Canada to determine their willingness accept "open source (OS) endowed chair professorships." To obtain such an "open source endowed chair," in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Endowment Funds
Moses K. Asamoah; Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi; Michael Tagoe – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2024
Despite huge investments in Ghanaian universities for e-learning education, there exist lecturers who struggle with the adoption and use of open-source Learning Management Systems (LMSs) in teaching. The purpose of this study was to investigate the dominant drivers of the adoption and usage of LMS by faculty to enhance e-learning education in…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Adoption (Ideas), Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Burgos, Daniel, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2020
This open access book presents how Open Science is a powerful tool to boost Higher Education. The book introduces the reader into Open Access, Open Technology, Open Data, Open Research results, Open Licensing, Open Accreditation, Open Certification, Open Policy and, of course, Open Educational Resources. It brings all these key topics from major…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Education, Open Education, Higher Education
Sarah McCorkle; Paul Whitener – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
This case study describes a small-scale Lightboard pilot and a full-scale Lightboard build with accompanying studio at a small, private liberal arts college in the southern United States. This article will provide an overview of the Lightboard landscape in higher education, offer considerations for the construction of a Lightboard, and share the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Video Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education
Wang, Qiao – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
This study searched for open-source semantic similarity tools and evaluated their effectiveness in automated content scoring of fact-based essays written by English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners. Fifty writing samples under a fact-based writing task from an academic English course in a Japanese university were collected and a gold standard…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Scoring
Brewer, T. Jameson; Heilig, Julian Vasquez – Critical Questions in Education, 2019
Inspired by a lively discussion during the Southeastern Philosophy of Education Society's annual meeting in 2017, this special issue explores the roles, purposes, possibilities, and caveats of leveraging digital communication technologies (e.g., blogs, social media, etc.) within the academy. As scholars continue to grapple with and integrate new…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Information Technology, College Faculty, Social Media
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
Moksness, Lars; Olsen, Svein Ottar – College & Research Libraries, 2018
Researchers at UiT--The Arctic University of Norway--studied how agreeableness and conscientiousness influence trust and perceived quality and how these factors subsequently impact the intention to publish research articles via open access (OA) or non-OA channels. The main findings show that, while trust increases intention to publish via OA, it…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Scholarship, Intention, Faculty Publishing
Bajpai, Shrish; Kidwai, Naimur Rahman – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
Present manuscript deals with the Indian government effort in making the control engineering education, an equal standard to any developed country. Control Engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering which has an ample number of applications in the almost every core engineering discipline. This is the field which uses the feedback…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Computer Simulation, College Faculty, Video Technology
Barneva, Reneta P.; Brimkov, Valentin E.; Gelsomini, Federico; Kanev, Kamen; Walters, Lisa – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2019
Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials with an open license so that they can be freely copied, modified, and reused. While the rising cost of textbooks is a concern in higher education, over 50% of the surveyed educators stated that they are unaware of the OER and how they could replace the traditional textbooks. In addition,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Textbooks, Educational Resources
Prasad, Deepak; Usagawa, Tsuyoshi – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Textbook prices have soared over the years, with several studies revealing many university students are finding it difficult to afford textbooks. Fortunately, two innovations--open educational resources (OER) and open textbooks--hold the potential to increase textbook affordability. Experts, though, have stated the obvious: that students can save…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Source Technology, Textbooks, College Faculty
Young, Brian – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2016
Providing financial incentives to faculty who adopt free educational resources in place of traditional textbooks is becoming more common in U.S. higher education institutions. The University of Mississippi (UM) offered liberal arts instructors the opportunity to apply for internal funding to replace one traditional textbook in their classroom with…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Open Source Technology, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Surveys
Veletsianos, George – Open Praxis, 2015
Although the open scholarship movement has successfully captured the attention and interest of higher education stakeholders, researchers currently lack an understanding of the degree to which open scholarship is enacted in institutions that lack institutional support for openness. I help fill this gap in the literature by presenting a descriptive…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Case Studies, Sharing Behavior, Shared Resources and Services
Delimont, Nicole; Turtle, Elizabeth C.; Bennett, Andrew; Adhikari, Koushik; Lindshield, Brian L. – Research in Learning Technology, 2016
The Kansas State University Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative provides grants to faculty members to replace textbooks with open/alternative educational resources (OAERs) that are available at no cost to students. Open educational resources are available for anyone to access, while alternative educational resources are not open. The objective of…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes