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Alario-Hoyos, Carlos; Pérez-Sanagustín, Mar; Delgado-Kloos, Carlos; Parada G., Hugo A.; et al.

MOOCs have been a disruptive educational trend in the last months. Some MOOCs just replicate traditional teaching pedagogies, adding multimedia elements like video lectures. Others go beyond, trying to engage the ...

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The application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is already changing the organization and delivery of higher education. The pedagogical and socio-economic forces that have driven the higher learning ...

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UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education

The key goal of this Policy Brief is to produce a number of alternative models of education delivery in the formal education sector. It was felt that the creation of five alternative models would sufficiently populate ...

Pérez-Paredes, Pascual; Guillamón, Carlos Ordoñana; Jiménez, Pilar Aguado

Combined with the ubiquity and constant connectivity of mobile devices, and with innovative approaches such as Data-Driven Learning (DDL), Natural Language Processing Technologies (NLPTs) as Open Educational Resources ...

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Piedra, Nelson; Chicaiza, Janneth Alexandra; López, Jorge; Tovar, Edmundo

The Linked Data initiative is considered as one of the most effective alternatives for creating global shared information spaces, it has become an interesting approach for discovering and enriching open educational ...

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Abeywardena, Ishan Sudeera

Open Educational Resources (OER) are a relatively new phenomenon which is fast gaining academic credibility as well as the attention of policy makers on a global scale. With increased funding by governmental and ...

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Power, Tom; Umar, Abdurrahman; Hedges, Claire

Through its “OERs for English Language Teaching (Pan-Commonwealth)” project, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is working in partnership with educational institutions throughout Africa and the Commonwealth to ...

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Jones, Chris

Open education emerged when the state had an active role in shaping and financing post-secondary education. In the twenty-first century, two pressures influence the way openness is conceived. The first is the ...

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

Open Educational Resources are accessed through the web, whose real setting shows an explosion in the use and development of tools and services based on Social Software. However, the growth of this data repository makes ...

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Larionova, Viola; Brown, Ken; Bystrova, Tatiana; Sinitsyn, Evgueny

There has been a rapid growth of massive open online courses (MOOCs) in the global education market in the last decade. Online learning technologies are becoming increasingly widespread in the non-formal education ...

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