scholarly journals On the Road to Inclusive Education: Supporting Diversity in Education by State-Financed, Large-Scale OER Platforms—The Example of User-Oriented Development of NDLA in Norway

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Frank J. Müller
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Road ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Diversity In Education

Inclusive education and the associated consideration of the diverse needs of students from different social, economic, and cultural backgrounds and different talents and disabilities are a worldwide challenge. This article shows how by addressing different user groups, state-funded platforms for open educational resources (OER) can contribute to the implementation of inclusive education. This is done using the example of the Norwegian platform NDLA, which has been providing open educational resources for upper secondary education in Norway since 2006. This paper is based on 13 expert interviews conducted with NDLA staff, cooperation partners, and members of the opposing schoolbook publishers union in 2017. The presented results focus on the diversity of learners, teachers, and platform staff and how this diversity is addressed. The presented results focus on the diversity of learners, teachers, and platform staff and how this diversity is addressed to ensure the best possible outcomes in learning and teaching. Finally, country-specific aspects that can be addressed by an OER platform are highlighted. In summary, the transferability of the Norwegian experience to other countries is discussed.

scholarly journals Opportunities and Challenges of State-financed Open Educational Resources: The Norwegian model – a way to more inclusion?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J. Müller
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Cooperation Partners

This publication deals with the experiences of employees, cooperation partners and opponents of the Norwegian large scale OER platform NDLA. Since 2006, the counties in Norway have been financing OER, thus ensuring access to high-quality educational materials. In 13 interviews, opportunities and challenges are analysed from the perspective of the experts. Quality assurance, professionalization processes, user-oriented design as well as licensing issues and the development of a new platform are also discussed. The potential of open educational resources for inclusive education is shown.

scholarly journals Open Resources in the Process Management of an Educational Organization in the Context of Integration and Inclusion

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-52
Author(s):  
Alica Vančová ◽  
Terézia Harčaríková ◽  
Ildan G. Idiyatullin ◽  
Mongush N. Chochagay
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Digital Education

The formation of a digital education space is an important moment for the development of the education system in the modern world. The article analyzes the problems of ensuring the security of information technologies in the management of the educational process of organizations, the risks and threats of open Internet resources in the context of integration and inclusion. It is proposed to identify the process of forming digital mentors in a pandemic Covid time as a safe expert space that can reduce risks and threats. Materials and Methods. Using the method of descriptive analysis of datasets voluntarily made publicly available on the Internet by educational organisations allowed the authors to investigate examples of large-scale projects of virtual schools in the formats of exchange models for information subscribers and system integrators. The issues of ensuring the safety of underage users, legal shortcomings of access and protection of Internet consumers of open educational resources were discussed. Results. The study has shown that the evidence from innovative processes of developing and producing open educational resources is complex, context-specific and difficult to generalise. Such initiatives require significant organisational change, including external partners of educational organisations and stakeholders with different cultures and educational practices. The authors highlight the use of benchmarking technology as a tool for the quality of intellectual integrations and the effectiveness of educational activities as a whole as an important condition for the success of the processes taking place. In the context of the research, the authors raise the issue of computer addiction among pupils and students and their safe interaction with multifaceted information online, drawing attention to the need for legal and educational measures for online safety, which should be planned and implemented in the educational organisation on a regular basis. Open educational resource OER initiatives are related to institutional change and require appropriate pedagogical and psychological approaches and legal support to help all actors in the educational space adapt to changes in the IT culture. The materials of this article will be useful to specialists and educational managers, including inclusive education, in developing prospective strategies for digital education and models for the development, production and maintenance of open educational resources.

scholarly journals The use of a publishing platform to facilitate the adaptation and development of Open Textbooks: A Pilot Report

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Nixon ◽  
Katya Henry
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Perceived Benefit ◽  
Course Material ◽  
Open Textbooks ◽  
Specific Unit

After a successful proof of concept to expand the university’s commitment to Open Educational Resources (OER), a pilot program was launched to facilitate the adaptation and development of Open Textbooks by academic staff for students as well as broader audiences. The pilot involved the use of the publishing platform Pressbooks as a mechanism to raise awareness of Open Educational Resources, and to provide a university-supported tool with which to develop Open Textbooks. Commencing in Semester 2, 2020, participants in the pilot received vendor training from Pressbooks, as well as support from learning and teaching and library staff. Pilot participants used the Pressbooks platform in a number of ways. Academics created textbooks as course material in a single unit, academics adapted open textbooks for Australian contexts over a number of units, and academics created open textbooks based on their research and not for a specific unit of study. Of the 13 pilot participants, five open textbooks were created, with one still in development. Responses to the pilot were mixed. Student feedback on the use of Pressbooks indicates that they enjoyed the structured and easy-to-read course material. Other students expressed frustration with the higher workload expectations of consuming material online prior to participating in synchronous classes. Students appreciated the zero cost of engaging with an open textbook. Academic feedback was also mixed, with some appreciating the flexibility and engagement that they can achieve in Pressbooks. Others were discouraged by the amount of time spent on creating material for little perceived benefit. The majority of academic staff who developed a textbook using Pressbooks would like to continue to use the platform.

On the Road to Large-Scale 3D Monocular Scene Reconstruction using Deep Implicit Functions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Roddick ◽  
Benjamin Biggs ◽  
Daniel Olmeda Reino ◽  
Roberto Cipolla
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Scene Reconstruction ◽  
Implicit Functions ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

High precision and high resolution monitoring of subsurface changes with DAS and airgun

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baoshan Wang ◽  
Xiangfang Zeng ◽  
Jun Yang ◽  
Yuansheng Zhang ◽  
Zhenghong Song ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Epicentral Distance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Fiber Optic Cable ◽  
The Road ◽  
Air Gun ◽  
Distributed Acoustic Sensing ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Road Crossing

<p>Recently large-volume airgun arrays have been used to explore and monitor the subsurface structure. The airgun array can generate highly repeatable seismic signals, which can be traced to more than 200 km. And the airgun source can be ignited every 10 minutes. The airgun source makes it possible to precisely monitor subsurface changes at large scale. The spatial resolution of airgun monitoring is poor subjecting to the receiver distribution. The distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technique provides a strategy for low-cost and high-density seismic observations. Two experiments combing DAS technique and airgun source were conducted at two sites with different settings. At the first site, a telecommunication fiber-optic cable in urban area was used. After moderate stacking, the airgun signal emerges on the 30-km DAS array at about 9 km epicentral distance. In the second experiment, a 5-km cable was deployed from the airgun source to about 2 km away. About 800-m cable was frozen into the ice above the air-gun, the rest cable was cemented on the road crossing through a fault. And the airgun has been fired continuously for more than 48 hours with one-hour interval. On the stacking multiple shots’ records, the wavefield in fault zone emerges too. These two experiments demonstrate the feasibility of using various fiber-optic cables as dense array to acquire air-gun signal in different environments and to monitor the subsurface changes.</p>

scholarly journals Open access repositories on open educational resources

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chew Bee Leng ◽  
Kamsiah Mohd Ali ◽  
Ch’ng Eng Hoo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Platform ◽  
Harvesting Method

Purpose Triggered by the advancement of information and communications technology, open access repositories (a variant of digital libraries) is one of the important changes impacting library services. In the context of openness to a wider community to access free resources, Wawasan Open University Library initiated a research project to build open access repositories on open educational resources. Open educational resources (OER) is an area of a multifaceted open movement in education. The purpose of this paper is to show how two web portal repositories on OER materials were developed adopting a Japanese open source software, called WEKO. Design/methodology/approach The design approach is based on a pull to push strategy whereby metadata of scholarly open access materials kept within the institution and network communities’ digital databases were harvested using the Open Archives Initiatives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting method into another open knowledge platform for discovery by other users. Findings Positive results emanating from the university open access repositories development showed how it strengthen the role of the librarian as manager of institutional assets and successfully making the content freely available from this open knowledge platform for reuse in learning and teaching. Research limitations/implications Developing further programmes to encourage, influence faculty members and prospective stakeholders to use and contribute content to the valuable repositories is indeed a challenging task. Originality/value This paper provides insight for academic libraries on how open access repositories development and metadata analysis can enhance new professional challenges for information professionals in the field of data management, data quality and intricacies of supporting data repositories and build new open models of collaboration across institutions and libraries. This paper also describes future collaboration work with institutions in sharing their open access resources.

Air-Car

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Lift Force ◽  
Third World ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
The Body ◽  
Stream Line ◽  
Traffic Jam ◽  
Traffic System ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

The name of my proposing project is “air-car”. Now a day’s traffic jam is common problem of the mega city, especially in third world countries. so, if we design the traffic system such that the light vehicles like car will flies over certain height from the ground level about 100-200 ft and the heavy vehicle like bus, truck, lorry, etc. will run on the road simultaneously then the traffic jam will be minimize with a large scale. Let us introduce with the concept “air-car”. Air car is the vehicle which can run in both way of air and road. That means that it can fly over a certain height from the ground and also run in the road as usual. We know that for the car design is such the lift force is minimized than the drag force. I want to design for the car such that, when the car has to fly lift force will be increase as much as it can fly for the required height. The body of the car also be a stream line body and the flap, aileron, rudder also be added. But this should be hidden at the time of running in the road.

International Large-Scale Vehicle Corpora for Research on Driver Behavior on the Road

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1609-1623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuya Takeda ◽  
John H. L. Hansen ◽  
Pınar Boyraz ◽  
Lucas Malta ◽  
Chiyomi Miyajima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Driver Behavior ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

Sharing higher education learning and teaching resources in art, design and media

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
Stephen Mallinder ◽  
Debbie Flint
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Art Design ◽  
The Uk

Wider social, cultural and technological changes are precipitating transformations in higher education. There is increasing need for universities and specialist colleges to operate effectively in a global online environment. The development of accessible and re-usable online teaching and learning materials has provided challenges to staff and institutions. This article explores aspects of the UK Open Educational Resources Programme and, in particular, the Art Design and Media Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project which has sought to examine the processes, challenges and opportunities open educational resources (OERs) present to these ‘creative’ disciplines. Part of the project has explored art, design and media tutors’ perceptions of the shift to ‘teaching in public’ and we share some preliminary findings.

scholarly journals Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities

Open Praxis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Pete ◽  
Fred Mulder ◽  
Jose Dutra Oliveira Neto ◽  
Kathleen Ludewig Omollo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Comprehensive Universities ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Selection Of

This paper is the second in a series of three with a common goal to present a fair OER picture for Sub-Saharan Africa, represented by large-scale studies in three countries: Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. This paper examines a deliberate selection of four Ghanaian universities with randomly sampled students and lecturers. Distinct questionnaires for students and the lecturers have been used, which generated a response from in total 818 students and 38 lecturers. The major outcomes based on the empirical data are: (i) there is a significant digital differentiation among lecturers and students at technical versus comprehensive universities in terms of their proficiency and internet accessibility; and (ii) the awareness and appreciation of the OER concept and open licensing is low but from the actual variety and types of processing by respondents of educational resources (not necessarily open) there is a preparedness for openness for the future.

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