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Grayson, Katherine – Campus Technology, 2010
If there's anyone in the academic IT arena taking seriously the possibility that campus identity management (IdM) may one day meld with consumer apps, it's Nate Klingenstein, one of the founding members of the Shibboleth Project (the open source project providing architecture and policy structures for managing single sign-on access to resources).…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Information Technology, Higher Education, Internet
Watters, Audrey – Campus Technology, 2012
As changing student demographics make it harder for today's learners to earn a four-year degree, educators are experimenting with smaller credentialing steps, such as digital badges. Mark Milliron, chancellor of Western Governors University Texas, advocates the creation of a "family of credentials," ranging from digital badges to certifications,…
Descriptors: Credentials, Certification, Recognition (Achievement), Skill Analysis
Olcott, Don – Distance Education, 2012
This reflection examines some of the continuing and emerging issues in the open educational resources (OER) field. These include blending OER with university management structures; formal and non-formal OER; the need for sustainable OER business models; and expanding awareness, adoption, and use of OER. In the future, research will need to examine…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Change, Educational Resources, Open Source Technology
Richter, Thomas; McPherson, Maggie – Distance Education, 2012
Education is widely seen as an important means of addressing both national and international problems, such as political or religious extremism, poverty, and hunger. However, if developing countries are to become societies that can compete properly with Western industrialized countries, not only is a fundamental shift in thinking with regard to…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Policy Formation
Atenas, Javiera; Havemann, Leo; Priego, Ernesto – Open Praxis, 2014
Scholars are increasingly being asked to share teaching materials, publish in open access journals, network in social media, and reuse open educational resources (OER). The theoretical benefits of Open Educational Practices (OEP) have become understood in the academic community but thus far, the use of OER has not been rapidly adopted. We aim to…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Practices, Open Source Technology, Resource Units
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
Hassler, Bjoern; Hennessy, Sara; Knight, Simon; Connolly, Teresa – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2014
Much of the current literature related to Open Educational Resource (OER) development and practice concentrates on higher education, although a growing body of work is also emerging for the primary and secondary school sectors. This article examines the user perspectives of teachers and teacher educators, regarding: discovery of teaching…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Open Source Technology, Resource Units, Shared Resources and Services
Fischer, Helge; Heise, Linda; Heinz, Matthias; Moebius, Kathrin; Koehler, Thomas – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
What comes next in the field of academic e-learning? Which e-learning trends will dominate the discourse at universities? Answering such questions is the basis for the adaptation of service strategies and IT-infrastructures within institutions of Higher Education. The present paper therefore introduces methodology and findings of a trend study in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Trend Analysis, Teaching Methods, Conference Papers
Gaba, Ashok K.; Li, Wei – Open Praxis, 2015
India and China are two fast growing economies of the world and need large skill based manpower to sustain the economic growth. The existing formal higher educational system in these countries will not be able to meet the demand of the economy. The paper will try (i) to compare the development of economy and distance education in India and China…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Development, Educational History
Reynolds, Veronica – Computers in Libraries, 2011
In these difficult economic times, everyone is on the lookout for savings. This author, an adult services librarian at New City Library in New York, has spent the last two years implementing small-scale open source and freeware replacements where proprietary or paper solutions once ruled. While none of these projects is individually revolutionary,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Open Source Technology, Library Automation, Library Development
Karakostas, A.; Demetriadis, S. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2011
Research on computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has strongly emphasized the value of providing student support of either fixed (e.g. collaboration scripts) or dynamic form (e.g. adaptive supportive interventions). Currently, however, there is not sufficient evidence corroborating the potential of adaptive support methods to improve…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Control Groups, Computer Assisted Instruction
Flor, Alexander Gonzalez – Open Praxis, 2013
The paper is based on the challenges encountered by the researcher while conducting a study titled "Design, Development and Testing of an Indigenous Knowledge Management System Using Mobile Device Video Capture and Web 2.0 Protocols." During the conduct of the study the researcher observed a marked reluctance from organized indigenous…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Educational Resources, Indigenous Knowledge, Educational Practices
Hilton, John Levi, III.; Gaudet, Donna; Clark, Phil; Robinson, Jared; Wiley. David – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
The high cost of textbooks is of concern not only to college students but also to society as a whole. Open textbooks promise the same educational benefits as traditional textbooks; however, their efficacy remains largely untested. We report on one community college's adoption of a collection of open resources across five different mathematics…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Open Source Technology, Community Colleges, Mathematics Education
Barnes, Cameron – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2013
Over the next few years, librarians at many Australian universities will participate in the creation of local Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This article aims to prepare librarians for this task. It begins by summarising the development of the MOOC concept and then moves on to review the growing literature on MOOCs and librarians. It…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Online Courses, Open Education, Library Role
Farisi, Mohammad Imam – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
The OER movement originated and integrated into ODE developments. Mega Universities (MUs) are among the most important of ODE providers worldwide should be to be the primary organizations for providing access to OER. So far, however, in-depth studies on OER developments in the Asian MUs were very limited. This study focuses on the developments,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies, Sustainability, Educational Development