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Arimoto, Maurício M.; Barroca, Leonor; Barbosa, Ellen F.; Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo; et al.

Open Educational Resources have emerged as important elements of education in the contemporary society, promoting life-long and personalized learning that transcends social, economic and geographical barriers. To ...

Day, Robin; Ker, Phil; Mackintosh, Wayne; McGreal, Rory; et al.

Match: university; higher education

Zhong, Sheng-Hua; Zhang, Qun-Bo; Li, Zheng-Ping; Liu, Yan; et al.

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are the latest e-learning initiative to attain widespread popularity in the world. Unfortunately, nearly all of these studies are built from western insights. Thus, there is a need ...

Match: MOOC

Gulatee, Yuwanuch; Nilsook, Prachyanun; the Department of Management and Information Technology, Nakhophanom University, Thailand; the Department of Technological Education, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, 10800, Thailand

MOOCs (massive open online course) become a very popular way of learning these days. People could access MOOCs from anywhere at any time with a fraction of the cost. In this study, we have examined both barriers and ...

Open Source University

(partial) A diverse team of renowned academic, corporate and technology leaders is about to roll out a first of its kind global education and professional development platform, based on the Ethereum blockchain, that ...

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African Virtual University; Universite Virtuelle Africaine; Universidade Virtual Africana

A description of the African Virtual University’s (AVU) Open Education Resources repository, OER@AVU, including: information related to licensing and file formats.

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Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science AND Technology (KNUST) institutional OER policy including copyright, adoption and guidelines for faculty and students.

Match: higher education

University of Conneticut; The Conneticut Conference of Independent Colleges; Conneticut State Colleges & Universities

Since 2006, the cost of college textbooks has increased by 73% - more than four times the rate of inflation. Many students have opted for cost avoidance. In the report, Fixing the Broken Textbooks Market, it states that ...

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Villamejor-Mendoza, Maria Fe; Gil-Jaurena, Inés

This paper is a self-reflection on the state of openness of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU). An exploratory and descriptive study, it aims not only to define the elements of openness of UPOU, ...

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Witthaus, Gabi; Okada, Alexandra

In this chapter, findings from the first phase of the TOUCANS (Testing the OER university Concept: a National Study) project are shared. TOUCANS is a research project based at the University of Leicester, in which SCORE ...

Match: university