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Means, Barb; Toyama, Yukie; Murphy, Robert; Bakia, Marianne; U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development

A systematic search of the research literature from 1996 through July 2008 identified more than a thousand empirical studies of online learning. Analysts screened these studies to find those that (a) contrasted an ...

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Lee, Mimi Miyoung; Lin, Meng Fen Grace; Bonk, Curtis J.

An all-volunteer organization called the Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS), headquartered in Taiwan, was initially designed to translate open source materials from MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site into ...

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Murphy, Angela

A survey was developed and launched in May and June 2012 to assess the extent to which OERu members are ready for participating in the pilot of the OERu model and determine which challenges organisations are currently ...

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Harley, Ken

As part of the Hewlett Foundation grant for the African Health OER Network, Professor Ken Harley (University of KwaZulu-Natal) conducts an annual external evaluation of the project. For his 2009 evaluation, Prof Harley ...

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Lowman, Amy

OpenCourseWare is identified as a learning tool for self-learners around the world. Although thousands of courses are freely available, only a small percentage (by world population standards) are aware of these banks of ...

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Huijser, Henk Johannes; Bedford, Tas; Bull, David

This paper explores the potential opportunities that OpenCourseWare (OCW) offers in providing wider access to tertiary education, based on the ideal of ‘the right to education’. It first discusses the wider ...

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Madhura, Kesarkar; Jayashree, Shinde; Sarika, Deshmukh

Open educational resources are digital materials that can be re-used for teaching, learning, research and more, made available free through open licenses, which allow uses of the materials that would not be easily ...

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Douglas, Kerrie; Zielinski, Mitchell; Merzdorf, Hillary; Diefes-Dux, Heidi; Bermel, Peter

Improving STEM MOOC evaluation requires an understanding of the current state of STEM MOOC evaluation, as perceived by all stakeholders. To this end, we investigated what kinds of information STEM MOOC instructors ...

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Yuen, Kin Sun; Li, Kam Cheong; Wong, Billy Tak Ming; Li, Kam Cheong; Yuen, Kin Sun

Twelve open textbooks for the local school curriculum – the first set ever developed in Hong Kong – were completed in 2015. During the development process, formative feedback was gathered from primary and secondary ...

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Tovar, Edmundo; Piedra, Nelson; Chicaiza, Janneth; Lopez, Jorge; Martinez-Bonastre, Oscar

In this paper, we describe the successful results of an international research project focused on the use of Web technology in the educational context. The article explains how this international project, funded by ...

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