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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 ...

Match: opencourseware

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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Barrett, Brendan F D.; Grover, Velma I.; Janowski, Tomasz; van Lavieren, Hanneke; et al.

This paper provides insights on the adoption or use of OpenCourseWare (OCW) to support broader research, training and institutional capacity development goals, based on the experience of the United Nations University. ...

Match: opencourseware

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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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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Duffin, Joel; Muramatsu, Brandon; Larsen, Ronald; Paepcke, Andreas; et al.

The OER Recommender (www.oerrecommender.org) is a web service that helps people find relevant open educational resources. It links the digital learning resources in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) ...

Match: opencourseware

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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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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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 ...

Match: opencourseware