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Marín, Victoria I.; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Aydin, Cengiz H.; Bedenlier, Svenja; Bond, Melissa; Bozkurt, Aras; Conrad, Dianne; Jung, Insung; Kondakci, Yasar; Prinsloo, Paul; Roberts, Jennifer; Veletsianos, George; Xiao, Junhong; Zhang, Jingjing – Open Education Studies, 2022
Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education cannot be put into practice without considering institutional contexts, which differ not only globally but also within the same country. Each institutional context provides educators with opportunities or limitations where Open Educational Practices (OEP) and OER for teaching and learning are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Marín, Victoria I.; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Aydin, Cengiz H.; Bedenlier, Svenja; Bond, Melissa; Bozkurt, Aras; Conrad, Dianne; Jung, Insung; Kondakci, Yasar; Prinsloo, Paul; Roberts, Jennifer; Veletsianos, George; Xiao, Junhong; Zhang, Jingjing – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2022
This paper explores faculty's perspectives and use of open educational resources (OER) and their repositories across different countries by conducting a multiple case study to find similarities and differences between academics' awareness, perceptions and use of OER, as well as examining related aspects of institutional policy and quality that may…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Open Educational Resources, Knowledge Level, College Faculty
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Suárez-Brito, Paloma; López-Caudana, Edgar Omar; Baena-Rojas, Jose Jaime; Ramírez-Montoya, Soledad – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2022
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) has increased due to its advantages for academic activities and educational quality. Hence, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have sought to develop strategies to promote curricular and extracurricular activities that favor developing disciplinary and transversal…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Educational Innovation
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Villar-Onrubia, Daniel – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
This study looks at OpenCourseWare (OCW) in Spain, a country where most public universities have tried to promote that particular model of open educational resources (OER) provision among academics. Using three universities with varying levels of OCW activity as a case study, this article examines key drivers behind the implementation of OCW…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Educational Resources, Courseware, Higher Education
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Mosquera Feijóo, Juan Carlos; Suárez, Fernando; Chiyón, Isabel; Alberti, Marcos García – Education Sciences, 2021
The classroom closure during the first semester of 2020 entailed decisive changes in higher education. Universities have become more digital in both the availability of e-resources and pervasive devices and how students communicate with lecturers and classmates. Learners adapted their study habits with a growing role of self-paced, internet-based…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Higher Education
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Marín, Victoria I.; Bond, Melissa; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Aydin, Cengiz H.; Bedenlier, Svenja; Bozkurt, Aras; Conrad, Dianne; Jung, Insung; Kondakci, Yasar; Prinsloo, Paul; Qayyum, Adnan; Roberts, Jennifer; Sangrà, Albert; van Tryon, Patricia J. Slagter; Veletsianos, George; Xiao, Junhong – Open Praxis, 2020
This paper reports on the first stage of an international comparative study for the project "'Digital educational architectures: Open learning resources in distributed learning infrastructures--EduArc,'" funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This study reviews the situation of digital educational resources (or…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Comparative Education, Educational Change
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Stracke, Christian M.; Sharma, Ramesh Chander; Bozkurt, Aras; Burgos, Daniel; Cassafieres, Cécile Swiatek; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; Mason, Jon; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Shon, Jin Gon; Wan, Marian; Agbu, Jane-Frances Obiageli; Farrow, Robert; Karakaya, Özlem; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Ramírez-Montoya, María Soledad; Conole, Grainne; Cox, Glenda; Truong, Vi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
In terms of scale, shock, and disenfranchisement, the disruption to formal education arising from COVID-19 has been unprecedented. Anecdotally, responses from teachers and educators around the world range from heightened caution to being inspired by distance education as the "new normal." Of all the challenges, face-to-face and formal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Open Education, Distance Education
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Bellés-Fortuño, Begoña; Martínez-Hernández, Ana-Isabel – The EUROCALL Review, 2020
Several studies have revealed that computer applications offer a vast potential for teaching and learning. Open Educational Resources (OERs) can be especially beneficial to generate innovative abilities in the classroom related to new means of communication and collaboration (Conole and Alevizou, 2010). As regards the teaching of foreign…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Word Frequency, Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology)
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Vázquez-Cano, Esteban; Martín-Monje, Elena; Castrillo de Larreta-Azelain, María Dolores – Digital Education Review, 2016
This paper shows some research which analysed the didactic functionality of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and Open Educational Resources (OERs). They were created by students from the Master's Degree in Information and Communication Technologies applied to language teaching and processing, at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Resources, Information Technology, Masters Degrees
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Atenas, Javiera; Havemann, Leo; Priego, Ernesto – Open Praxis, 2014
Scholars are increasingly being asked to share teaching materials, publish in open access journals, network in social media, and reuse open educational resources (OER). The theoretical benefits of Open Educational Practices (OEP) have become understood in the academic community but thus far, the use of OER has not been rapidly adopted. We aim to…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Practices, Open Source Technology, Resource Units
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Corbi, Alberto; Burgos, Daniel – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2017
This paper presents how virtual containers enhance the implementation of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) subjects as Open Educational Resources (OER). The publication initially summarizes the limitations of delivering open rich learning contents and corresponding assignments to students in college level STEAM areas. The…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education
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Dodds, Colin B.; Whelan, Alison; Kharrufa, Ahmed; Satar, Müge – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This chapter is based on a workshop at IVEC 2020 which presented a model of Virtual Exchange (VE) facilitated by interactive, digital, and cultural artefacts created using a progressive web app developed by the EU-funded ENACT project team. The model offers an innovative approach to online intercultural exchange through the opportunity to create,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Open Educational Resources