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An end-to-end solution for complex open educational resources
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An end to end solution for complex open educational resources
… We created a desktop tool named ORchiD, Open educational Resources Depositor, to achieve this goal. The tool encompasses educational metadata and content packaging standards to create packages while conforming to a deposit protocol to ingest resources to repositories.
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Die Open Educational Resources Bewegung – Optionen und Hürden für Lehrende an deutschen Hochschulen
Open Educational Resources (OER) oder freie Bildungsressourcen sind Ressourcen, die vom Urheber für den Lernprozess frei zugänglich und möglichst auch adaptierbar unter einer offenen Lizenz zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Die Arbeit klärt Konzept und Herkunft der Open Educational Resources und …
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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INITIATIVE AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA: CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED
… Fluency for 21st Century Lecturers at the Open University of Tanzania. Through a descriptive research design approach, the study employed documentary analysis (particularly of the proceedings and records from the course development workshops and planning meetings) and review of literature …
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Educators' challenges and behavioural intention to adopt open educational resources : the case of Africa University, Zimbabwe
A review of the literature confirms that Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives have created free, openly licenced and high quality educational resources for anyone to use. However, these free, openly licensed and high quality educational resources appear to remain largely unused by Africa …
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Domestication of open educational resources by academics in an open distance e-learning institution of South Africa
The emergence of open educational resources has gained popularity and acceptance in higher education institutions and beyond the basic education sector. This brought a persisting shift in depending on information communication technologies for tuition and research provision. Information technology …
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Supporting lifelong learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) among diverse users: motivations for and approaches to learning with different OER
… 1) What motivates and influences learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) among different users, and 2) What role OER play in supporting lifelong learning among different users. The activities of key international organisations promoting lifelong learning as significant in the context of …
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The Perceived Value of Open Educational Resources (OER) by Francophone Linguistic Minority Students in a Post-Secondary Educational (PSE) Setting
… linguistic minority. French language academic resources are often more expensive, difficult to locate, and sometimes not available at all for niche subject areas. This often results in barriers to access learning materials. The unequal access to learning materials is an issue of equity and can …
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Explaining the relations between culture, structure and agency in lecturers' contribution and non-contribution to Open Educational Resources in a higher education institution
… initiatives to promote the sharing and use of Open Educational Resources (OER), sharing and use of OER is not a widely accepted practice in higher education. The reasons for lecturers' choices on whether or not to contribute OER are poorly understood. This thesis develops a theoretically-based …
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Viewing the use of open educational resources through a community of practice lens: a case study of teachers' use of the Everything Maths and Everything Science open textbooks
… the "Everything Maths" and "Everything Science" open textbooks are used, and to what extent a Community of Practice (Wenger, 2006) has formed around the use of these open textbooks, are informed by a case study, comprising of interviews with nine South African high-school teachers using these …
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Multimodality And The Sociality Of Literacies: Shaping First-Year Writing Students’ Literacies Through Multimodal Approaches
… Intentionally developing these literacies opens the door for first-year writing students to build upon social discourses in which they already engage and develop new modes of meaning making outside of solely alphabetic literacy. Composition textbooks today, both traditional and Open …
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Academic Librarian Experiences and Perceived Value of OER Professional Development: A Case Study
… is a constantly changing profession. Open education librarianship has developed as an area of specialization. Effective continuing professional development (CPD) for learning about open educational resources (OER) is needed to meet academic librarians' knowledge and training needs …
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Understanding The Technology Barriers Experienced By Students With Disabilities In Higher Education
… inclusive pedagogy, universal design, and open educational resources. Data for this qualitative study was collected through semi-structured interviews with 12 participants who were active degree-seeking students with a disability who had completed at least one semester. The findings from …
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An adaptive user interface for open educational content
… have developed a framework of meta- data around open educational resources that are used by students to master a given concept. Based on the assumption that a course can be broken down into specfic concepts and that there are several resources available to students both on sites such as …
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Informationsdesign von Bildungsportalen : Struktur und Aufbau netzbasierter Bildungsressourcen
… an die aktuelle Diskussion um den Begriff "Open Educational Resources" (OER). Seit das Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) im April 2001 sein Unterrichtsmaterial zur freien Verfügung im Internet bereitzustellen begann, sind, zeitlich versetzt zu den verwandten Bewegungen Open Access …
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Reuse and Repurposing of Online Digital Learning Resources within UK Higher Education: 2003-2010
… in reuse and repurposing of online digital resources within higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom (UK) over a period (2003-2010), when the emphasis of educational resource reuse and repurposing activity shifted from reusable learning objects (RLO) to open educational resources (OER). …
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The Impact of Adopting OER Videos as Supplementary Resources on Student Scores and Engagement
<p>Open educational resources (OER) have gained immense popularity in recent years, due to their ability to offer students and educators access to high-quality, free-to-use educational materials. The widespread use of OER has also been driven by the increasing availability of digital resources and …
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Factors Affecting Completion Rates at the Open University of Tanzania
… explored factors affecting completion rates in open and distance learning institutions, using the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) as a case study. The study was done in Dar es Salaam, Kagera, Mwanza, Shinyanga, Singida, Dodoma, Kilimanjaro and Tanga regions. The study employed a mixed methods …
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Educators and students in the age of artificial intelligence: A qualitative study of mathematics education in community colleges
… Zoom interviews with faculty and 54 open-ended surveys with students, were analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s (2006) thematic analysis in NVivo, involving a diverse sample of 23 faculty and 54 students. The study uncovered six faculty themes, including instructional efficiency, …
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Promoting the Social Inclusion of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder via Mobile Technologies
… their social, communication, language, and other educational skills required for their academic success. However, social inclusion of these students in the classroom is still challenging. Hence, there is a need to determine effective ways of integrating mobile technologies in the classroom in …
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