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Download full textHongwei Yang; Müslim Alanoglu; Songül Karabatak; Jian Su; Kelly Bradley – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2025
This study developed and validated the Turkish version of the Self-Directed Online Learning Scale (SDOLS-T) for assessing students' perceptions of their self-directed learning (SDL) ability in an online environment. Specifically, this study conducted in two stages multiple categorical confirmatory factor analyses factoring in the ordered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Factor Analysis, Translation, Student Attitudes
Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Conrad, Dianne; Bozkurt, Aras; Aydin, Cengiz Hakan; Bedenlier, Svenja; Jung, Insung; Stöter, Joachim; Veletsianos, George; Blaschke, Lisa Marie; Bond, Melissa; Broens, Andrea; Bruhn, Elisa; Dolch, Carina; Kalz, Marco; Kerres, Michael; Kondakci, Yasar; Marin, Victoria; Mayrberger, Kerstin; Müskens, Wolfgang; Naidu, Som; Qayyum, Adnan; Roberts, Jennifer; Sangrà, Albert; Loglo, Frank Senyo; van Tryon, Patricia J. Slagter; Xiao, Junhong – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
This paper explores elements of open education within the context of higher education. After an introduction to the origins of open education and its theoretical foundations, the topics of open and distance learning, international education issues in open education, open educational practices and scholarship, open educational resources, MOOCs,…
Descriptors: Open Education, Distance Education, Open Educational Resources, Online Courses
Teoh, Ai Ping; Tan, Yen Shi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
This study aims to understand factors that affect the behavioural intention of manufacturing engineers in Malaysia to use e-learning in the workplace. Two hundred usable online questionnaires were collected from respondents who were engineers in Malaysian manufacturing companies. The data were analyzed using SPSS and Smart PLS version 3.2.6.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Manufacturing Industry, Behavior, Intention
DeVries, Irwin – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of how open universities depict their current institutional engagement in open educational practices. In view of the growth of programming for nontraditional students by conventional universities, particularly through online learning and increasing interest in open educational practices, the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Open Universities, Web Sites, Nontraditional Students
Vázquez, Juan Antonio Valdivia; Ramirez-Montoya, Maria Soledad; Gónzalez, Jaime Ricardo Valenzuela – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Understanding factors promoting or preventing participants' completion of a massive open online course (MOOC) is an important research topic, as attrition rates remain high for this environment. Motivation and digital skills have been identified as aspects promoting student engagement in a MOOC, and they are considered necessary for success.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Energy Conservation, Sustainability
Li, Kam Cheong; Wong, Billy Tak-Ming – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Student persistence has long been a major challenge for open universities. Despite the evolution of open education, an overall high student attrition rate remains. This paper examines the changes and trends in factors related to student persistence in open universities. It reviews the empirical studies from the 1970s to the 2010s which reported…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Open Universities, Student Attrition, Educational Trends
Thomas, Marshall P.; Türkay, Selen; Parker, Michael – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
As online courses become more common, practitioners are in need of clear guidance on how to translate best educational practices into web-based instruction. Moreover, student engagement is a pressing concern in online courses, which often have high levels of dropout. Our goals in this work were to experimentally study routine instructional design…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Courseware, Best Practices, Educational Practices
