Open Educational Resources and Distance Learning, Challenges and the Way Forward in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 1237-1246
Author(s):  
Adeyinka Tella
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Learning Challenges ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Challenges for implementing open educational resources by teachers in higher education

2018 ◽  
Vol 325 ◽  
pp. 479-490
Author(s):  
Roza Dumbraveanu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Teachers Training

Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are facing a number of problems during the last decades: the need to update the curricula to make it compatible with the similar ones from other national and European universities; demand to update the content and the pedagogical approach due to knowledge, technological and research development. Open Educational Resources (OER) might be a sound strategy for institutions to meet these challenges. At the same time OER are themselves one of the challenges that the teachers are faced with. OER could be implemented in courses in different ways, depending on the types of OER and the educational philosophy adopted by the teachers. The paper describes some challenges for implementing Open Educational Resources by teachers in Higher Education in Moldova: the level of awareness on availability and usage of OER; fair use matters; quality assurance of resources; pedagogical approaches for implementing OER into teaching and learning. The paper also grasps the issues of the digital divide that emerge when investigating these challenges. The judgment is based on the literature analysis and on the author’s teaching experience within courses for initial and continuous professional teachers’ training.

scholarly journals Open Educational Resources Development on Higher Education in a Collaborative Process of Co-Creation

2017 ◽  
Vol 08 (06) ◽  
pp. 813-828
Author(s):  
Patrícia Lupion Torres ◽  
Danielle Cristine Boaron ◽  
Raquel Pasternak Glitz Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Resources Development

AN APPROACH TO RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS THROUGH OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafaela Blanca Silva-López ◽  
Ricardo Marcelín Jiménez ◽  
Iris Iddaly Méndez Gurrola ◽  
Hugo Pablo Leyva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources for MOOC

2018 ◽  
pp. 220-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar Deval
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
End Users ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Time Space ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Government

The higher education sector is being influenced by many factors, and a paradigm shift from conventional learning to virtual learning can easily be observed. MOOCs are an innovative initiative in promoting and imparting virtual learning to the end users that are restricted to pursue their higher education due to time, space, and money constraints. Open educational resources are an integral part of MOOCs, and to sustain the viability of MOOCs, quality open educational resources are a need of the hour. Issues related to MOOCs and open educational resources are being taken up by various governmental and non-governmental organizations in accelerating the e-learning concepts among their citizens and to fill up the gaps, if any, to avoid digital divide between the students of regular and open universities. India, being a developing country, needs to put more efforts into promoting the concepts of MOOCs and to popularizing the concepts. In this regard, the Government of India has introduced various platforms for open educational resources for enhancing and supporting MOOCs.

Integrating Open Educational Resources Into Undergraduate Business Courses

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-358
Author(s):  
Reneta P. Barneva ◽  
Valentin E. Brimkov ◽  
Federico Gelsomini ◽  
Kamen Kanev ◽  
Lisa Walters
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Business Courses ◽  
Creative Commons

Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials with an open license so that they can be freely copied, modified, and reused. While the rising cost of textbooks is a concern in higher education, over 50% of the surveyed educators stated that they are unaware of the OER and how they could replace the traditional textbooks. In addition, not many instructors understand the Creative Commons licenses under which OER can be used. In this work, we consider the types of OER and outline the sources of OER for business courses. We describe our experience of using such resources for innovative business courses and discuss the choices we made and the lessons learned. Finally, we share the results of surveys about OER we conducted with students and reflect on them.

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