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Kopp, Michael; Gröblinger, Ortrun; Zimmermann, Claudia; Kloos, Carlos Delgado; et al.

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have developed into one of the most prominent instruments of technology-enhanced learning, and their much-praised potential has often been connected to one of their core components: ...

Match: higher education; openness; OER

Czerniewicz, Laura; Glover, Michael; Deacon, Andrew; Walji, Sukaina

The practices and perceptions of educators formed through the creation and running of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provide a case study of how educators understandings of ‘openness’ change (Beetham et al ...

Match: higher education; openness; OER

Souto-Otero, Manuel; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; Shields, Robin; Lažetić, Predrag; et al.

OpenCases is a study which is part of the OpenEdu Project. It is a qualitative study consisting of a review of literature on open education and nine in-depth case studies of higher education institutions, a consortium ...

Match: education; higher education

Ferwerda, Eelco; Snijder, Ronald; Adema, Janneke

Executive summary: Monographs still play an important role in scholarly communication, particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The availability of publication outlets for research monographs is crucial to ...

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Andrade, António; Ehlers, Ulf Daniel; Caine, Abel; Carneiro, Roberto; et al.

Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an intellectual property license that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution. In ...

Match: education; higher education

Olakulehin, Felix Kayode; Singh, Gurmit

Bourdieu has argued that higher education is a field that reproduces social inequality, thus complicating how openness widens access to higher education in the developing world. Drawing on the experiences of the ...

Match: higher education; openness

Armellini, Alejandro; Nie, Ming

Open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP) are relatively new areas in educational research. How OER and OEP can help practitioners enhance curricula is one of a number of under-researched ...

Match: higher education; openness

Cobo, Cristobal; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

Over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) initiatives have created new possibilities for knowledge-sharing practices. This research examines how, where, and when OER are attracting attention in the higher ...

Match: education; OER

Tiedau, Ulrich

OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting ...

Match: education; higher education

Witthaus, Gabi; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; Childs, Mark; Tannhauser, Anne-Christin; et al.

This report presents the outcomes of research, conducted between May 2014 and November 2015, into emerging practices in assessment, credentialisation and recognition in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Following ...

Match: education; higher education