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Randall, Daniel L.; Johnson, Jacquelyn C.; West, Richard E.; Wiley, David A. – Educational Technology, 2013
In this article, the authors present an example of a project-based course within a studio environment that taught collaborative innovation skills and produced an open-source project management textbook for the field of instructional design and technology. While innovation plays an important role in our economy, and many have studied how to teach…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Open Source Technology, Program Administration, Textbook Publication
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Yan, Hongxin; Law, Sandra – Open Praxis, 2013
Failure rates in first year calculus courses are high in most post-secondary institutions across North America and other parts of the world. This Inukshuk-funded open education project involved the development of five stand-alone pre-calculus learning modules. The design and revision phases of this project occurred between the fall of 2007 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Open Source Technology, Learning Modules
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Torres, Nadia Paola Mireles – Open Praxis, 2013
The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement and the Open Access began only over a decade ago. During this period, the progress of the Open Educational Resources movement took place in developed countries for the most part. Recently, new projects have begun to emerge with a strong emphasis on open education. Yet, the concept of openness in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Open Education, Open Source Technology
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Friesen, Norm; Wihak, Christine – Open Praxis, 2013
Recent developments in OER and MOOCs (Open Educational Resources and Massive Open Online Courses) have raised questions as to how learners engaging with these courses and components might be assessed or credentialed. This descriptive and exploratory paper examines PLAR (Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition) as a possible answer to these…
Descriptors: Open Education, Student Evaluation, Credentials, Educational Resources
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Muniafu, Maina; Wambalaba, Francis; Wanyama, Walter; Nduati, Gidraph; Ndirangu, Dalton – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2013
Agriculture is the mainstay of Kenya's economy and contributes significantly to the gross domestic product. A great majority of this contribution comes from smallholder farmers who paradoxically face numerous obstacles ranging from a lack of support structures to poor policies and inadequate resources. A major challenge is assisting these farmers…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Administrator Education, Rural Areas, Extension Education
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Castaño Muñoz, Jonatan; Redecker, Christine; Vuorikari, Riina; Punie, Yves – Open Learning, 2013
Adult learning and open education have become key elements on the European Agenda. This paper presents the first results of a foresight activity that aims to contribute to an understanding of how "Opening up Education" can improve adult learning in Europe in the future. It argues that to open up adult learning two main challenges must be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Adult Learning, Educational Planning
Hull, Michael Malvern – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the 1980's and 1990's, results from flurries of standardized exams (particularly in 4th and 8th grade mathematics and science) reached the attention of ever-growing numbers of Americans with an alarming message: our children are not even close to keeping up with those in China, Japan, and Korea. As a step towards improving American classrooms,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Cultural Context
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Al-Aziz, Jameel; Christou, Nicolas; Dinov, Ivo D. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2010
The amount, complexity and provenance of data have dramatically increased in the past five years. Visualization of observed and simulated data is a critical component of any social, environmental, biomedical or scientific quest. Dynamic, exploratory and interactive visualization of multivariate data, without preprocessing by dimensionality…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Visualization, Visual Aids, Open Source Technology
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Koenig, Jack; Mikeal, Adam – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on a devised method of collection organisation within a DSpace repository using a Manakin theme and descriptive metadata. Design/methodology/approach: Using a Manakin theme, a user interface for a repository collection containing the contents of a serial was created to divide the collection into…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Electronic Libraries, Archives, Academic Libraries
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Schuwer, Robert; Kreijns, Karel; Vermeulen, Marjan – Open Praxis, 2014
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has funded a five years program to encourage the use, creation and sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER) by teachers from various types of education. This program is known as Wikiwijs. Ultimo 2013, the program has come to an end. As some of the assumptions at the start of Wikiwijs proved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Source Technology, Educational Resources, Intervention
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Baxter, Jacqueline Aundree; Haycock, Jo – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
The use of large online discussion forums within online and distance learning continues to grow. Recent innovations in online learning such as the MOOC (massive open online course) and concomitant growth in the use of online media for the delivery of courses in traditional campus based universities provide both opportunity and challenge for online…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education
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Warschauer, Mark; Zheng, Binbin; Niiya, Melissa; Cotten, Shelia; Farkas, George – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014
Seeking to improve teaching and learning and to narrow gaps between students of high and low socioeconomic status, many school districts in the United States are implementing one-to-one laptop programs. In this comparative case study, we examine one-to-one laptop programs in Colorado, California, and Alabama, all of which deployed low-cost netbook…
Descriptors: Laptop Computers, Access to Computers, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies
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McKerlich, Ross; Ives, Cindy; McGreal, Rory – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
The open educational resources initiative has been underway for over a decade now and higher education institutions are slowly adopting open educational resources (OER). The use and creation of OER are important aspects of adoption and both are needed for the benefits of OER to be fully realized. Based on the results of a survey developed to…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Open Source Technology, Use Studies, Technology Uses in Education
Gera, Christina, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
The 7 articles in this 8th volume comprise the referred proceedings of the 2012 ATLAANZ (Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa/New Zealand) conference. The first three chapters present tools that can assist students with their academic development: In chapter 1, ("The DELNA Language Advisory Session: How do Students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Development, English (Second Language)
Nelson, Eric Derrand – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This work describes the design and construction of an open source, entity resolution system that enables users to assign and maintain persistent identifiers for master data items. Two key features of this system that are not available in current ER systems and that make persistent identification possible are (1) The capture and management of…
Descriptors: Information Management, Internet, Open Source Technology, Computer Software
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