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Daniela Castellanos-Reyes; Sandra Liliana Camargo Salamanca; David Wiley – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2024
Open educational resources (OER) have been praised for revolutionizing education. However, practitioners and instructors battle keeping OER updated and measuring their impact on students' performance. Few studies have analyzed the improvement of OER over time in relation to achievement. This longitudinal study uses learning analytics through the…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, Introductory Courses
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Lorena Sousa; Luís Pedro; Carlos Santos – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2023
Almost all open educational resources (OER) definitions encompass key concepts such as the 5R activities and open licenses. However, little attention is given to the technical aspects and tools that allow the user to interact with these resources. This study aims to answer five research questions regarding (a) 5R activities, (b) open licenses and…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Meta Analysis, Intellectual Property, Open Source Technology
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Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2023
Extended reality (XR), which encompasses virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), offers powerful affordances for improving teaching and learning experiences in a post-pandemic world. Increasingly, many governments and institutions around the world are making major investments in XR technologies to prepare education…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education, Sustainable Development, Barriers
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Lin, Hong – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Given the upsurge of textbook costs, college students increasingly expect universities and instructors to offer alternatives to traditional textbooks. One textbook alternative is using open educational resources (OER). While OER unquestionably save students money, the question remains whether the adoption of OER (instructional materials) is…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Technology Uses in Education
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Lane, David C.; Goode, Claire – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
This paper describes the functionality, scalability, and cost of implementing and maintaining a suite of open source technologies, which have supported hundreds of thousands of learners in the past year, on an information technology infrastructure budget of less than US$10,000 per year. In addition, it reviews pedagogical opportunities offered by…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Postsecondary Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Shah, Mariam Aman; Calonge, David Santandreu – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the role Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can play in improving access to education globally, and particularly to thousands of people in developing and developed countries. There is increasing concern, however, that the millions of displaced refugee learners throughout Europe, the Middle…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Veletsianos, George; VanLeeuwen, Charlene A.; Belikov, Olga; Johnson, Nicole – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Digital education refers to in-person, blended, and fully online learning efforts, as well as attempts to capture a wide range of teaching and learning contexts which make use of digital technology. While digital education is pervasive in Canada, pan-Canadian data on digital education are relatively scarce. The Canadian Digital Learning Research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Online Courses