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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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Connell, Marina; Connell, John

This paper offers a short evaluation of the variety of quality criteria used in Open Educational Resources and some of the methods and practices in use to ensure quality. The paper surveys and reviews effective ...

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Villar Onrubia, Daniel

Based on the idea of broadening access to learning opportunities for all by means of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has gained ground during the ...

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Carson, Stephen

This article traces the development of the OpenCourseWare movement, including the origin of the concept at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the implementation of the MIT OpenCourseWare project, and the ...

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Dyomin, Victor; Mozhaeva, Galina; Babanskaya, Olesya; Zakharova, Ulyana; et al.

E-learning development comes with an increased attention to its quality that is managed via the control over not only the learners' knowledge but over the learning process, its organization and applied tools. This paper ...

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Sinclair, Jane; Boyatt, Russell; Rocks, Claire; Joy, Mike

The massive open online course (MOOC) has seen a dramatic rise in prominence over the last five years and is heralded by some as disrupting existing pedagogy and practices within the education sector, while others are ...

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Johansen, Justin; Wiley, David A.

The purposes of this study were to (a) determine the cost of converting BYU Independent Study's e-learning courses into OpenCourseWare, (b) assess the impact of opening those courses on paid enrollment in the ...

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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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