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Osaci-Costache, Gabriela; Cocos, Octavian; Cocos, Alina – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2017
Present-day geography is inconceivable in the absence of GIS software. The students and staff of the Faculty of Geography within the University of Bucharest use both proprietary GIS software and Open Source computer programmes. Consequently, this study aims at identifying to what extent each of them is used for various tasks and what is the…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Geography Instruction
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Vojtech, Gabrielle; Grissett, Judy – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
Research indicates that students find open educational resources (OER) favorable, but there is no research regarding students' perceptions of faculty who use open textbooks. In the present study we examined this topic experimentally with two undergraduate psychology courses at a small public university. Participants read two passages--one about an…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Textbooks
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Juhary, Jowati – International Education Studies, 2014
A Learning Management System (LMS) can be a singularly critical platform to report on students' learning progress and to monitor students' learning engagement. At the only defence university in Malaysia, the National Defence University of Malaysia (NDUM) adopts the LMS as a supplementary learning and teaching tool. Nonetheless, the aspiration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrated Learning Systems, Student Attitudes, Questionnaires
Hew, Khe Foon; Cheung, Wing Sum – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
Open education resources (OER) may be defined as any digital materials designed for use in teaching and learning that are openly available for use by educators and students, without an accompanying need to pay royalties or license fees. Hitherto, research on students' use of OER has been mainly limited to those in Western countries, mainly in the…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Pilot Projects, Undergraduate Students, Open Source Technology
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Asing-Cashman, Joyce G.; Gurung, Binod; Limbu, Yam B.; Rutledge, David – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2014
This study examines the digital native pre-service teachers' (DNPSTs) perceptions of their competency, attitude, and pedagogical intention to use free and open source tools (FOSTs) in their future teaching. Participants were 294 PSTs who responded to pre-course surveys at the beginning of an educational technology course. Using the structural…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Computer Software Reviews, Preservice Teachers, Investigations
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Abdelraheem, Ahmed Yousif – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to identify learners' perceptions of the quality of interaction in Moodle and investigate the effects of gender, grade point average (GPA), individualized learning experiences and their experiences in using Moodle factors in perceiving the quality of interaction. A questionnaire was used to collect data after being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Distance Education, Web Based Instruction
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Stebbings, Simon; Bagheri, Nasser; Perrie, Kellie; Blyth, Phil; McDonald, Jenny – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
In response to the challenges created by the implementation of a new medical school curriculum at the University of Otago in 2008, we aimed to develop a blended learning course for teaching rheumatology within the existing musculoskeletal course. We developed a multimedia online learning resource structured to support class based problem-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Longitudinal Studies