Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources

Author: Unesco

Publisher: United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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Education systems today face two major challenges: expanding the reach of education and improving its quality. Traditional solutions will not suffice, especially in the context of today's knowledge-intensive societies. The Open Educational Resources movement offers one solution for extending the reach of education and expanding learning opportunities. The goal of the movement is to equalise access to knowledge worldwide through openly and freely available online high-quality content. UNESCO has contributed to building global awareness about Open Educational Resources, through facilitating an extended conversation in cyberspace. Over the course of two years, a large and diverse international community came together in a series of online discussion forums to discuss the concept of Open Educational Resources and its potential. In making the background papers and reports from those discussions available for the first time in print, this publication seeks to share even more widely the contributions made by so many. It is intended for all who may be intrigued by the Open Educational Resources movement - its promise and its progress.


Free and Open Source Software for E-Learning: Issues, Successes and Challenges

Free and Open Source Software for E-Learning: Issues, Successes and Challenges

Author: Czerkawski, Betul ™zkan

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1615209182

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"This book reviews open and free software used in e-learning, examines the pedagogy behind FOSS and how it is applied to e-learning, and discusses the best practices for FOSS through real world examples, providing guidelines for e-learning designers and instructors who use FOSS"--Provided by publisher.


Note Taking Activities in E-Learning Environments

Note Taking Activities in E-Learning Environments

Author: Minoru Nakayama

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9811661049

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The main focus of this book is presenting practical procedures for improving learning effectiveness using note taking activities during e-learning courses. Although presentation of e-learning activities recently has been spreading to various education sectors, some practical problems have been discussed such as evaluation of learning performance and encouragement of students. The authors introduce note taking activity as a conventional learning tool in order to promote individual learning activity and learning efficacy. The effectiveness of note taking has been measured in practical teaching in a Japanese university using techniques of learning analytics, and the results are shown here. The relationships between note taking activity and students’ characteristics, the possibility of predicting the final learning performance using metrics of students’ note taking, and the effectiveness for individual emotional learning factors are evaluated. Some differences between blended learning and fully online learning courses are also discussed. The authors provide novel analytical procedures and ideas to manage e-learning courses. In particular, the assessment of note taking activity may help to track individual learning progress and to encourage learning motivation.


Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education

Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education

Author: Tian Belawati

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2010-11-10

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 8132105621

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This book has been designed for the orientation and training of specialists in open and distance learning methods in Asia. It is the outcome of the collaborative PANdora research and development initiative (2005–08) between 24 open and distance learning (ODL) institutions, government departments and non-governmental organizations in 13 Asian countries. The guidelines in the book have been designed in modular form so that selected sections can be combined according to users’ needs and translated into local languages in keeping with the PANdora network’s open resources philosophy.


Technology in Education: Pedagogical Innovations

Technology in Education: Pedagogical Innovations

Author: Simon K. S. Cheung

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 981139895X

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This book constitutes extended papers from the 4th International Conference on Technology in Education, ICTE 2019, held in Guangzhou, China, in March 2019. The 27 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on blended bearning and computer-supported learning; virtual reality, augmented reality and game-based learning; open online courses and open educational resources; teaching and learning analysis and assessment; pedagogical, psychological and cultural issues.