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

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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 ...

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 ...

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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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Rodés, Virginia; Gewerc-Barujel, Adriana; Llamas-Nistal, Martín

The Open Education movement has made efforts to systematise experiences and to evaluate the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER). However, OER adoption is not part of the prevailing paradigm in higher education, ...

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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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Richardson, Sarah; Radloff, Ali

This discussion paper was prepared to inform the APEC workshop on Promoting Regional Education Services Integration: APEC University Associations Cross-Border Education Cooperation held in Kuala Lumpur from 20–22 May ...

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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 ...

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Lestch, Corinne

Through the Open Textbook Network, AU students can access hundreds of free, openly licensed textbooks.

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