scholarly journals Faculty Perception of Openness and Attitude to Open Sharing at the Indian National Open University

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Santosh Panda ◽  
Sujata Santosh
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Open University ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
National Open University

In the past decade, the educational scenario world over has significantly been impacted by open access and open education movements. The philosophy of openness and sharing forms the cornerstone of the open education movement. The distance education approaches, together with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs), are being used to serve the increasing educational needs of diverse communities. However, adoption of openness as a core value and as part of the institutional strategy still remains a challenge for academic institutions in general, and distance education institutions in particular, in developing countries like India. In this research study, the authors report an analysis of the perception of the faculty of the Indira Gandhi National Open University of India (IGNOU) about openness and their attitude towards sharing of resources in academic institutions. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire administered to the teachers and academics of IGNOU (N=69). The results indicated that: the faculty members valued sharing of resources in academic institutions; learning resources should be made available free of cost; there is a strong need for training on intellectual property rights, copyright, and creation and use of OER; and there should be an institutional policy on OER for its effective use.

Supporting access to open education resources and massive open online courses for high school students of New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-253
Author(s):  
Sittara Hakim
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
School Students

Open education promotes an absolute openness in the dissemination of education, eliminating barriers including, but not limited to, cost and access to free and relevant resources. For open education, digital content has provided a means of not just sharing resources, but for promoting an interactive and collaborative culture of pooled Open Educational Resources to help others have the freedom of learning and educating themselves as per their necessity and yearning. Open Educational Resources in higher education have quickly gained a reputation, expanded and evolved with Massive Open Online Courses. In this paper, the significance, approach and implications of open education are extended to secondary education. Recommendations are reported for the development of High School Open Educational Resources in New Zealand, including the establishment of a High School Object Repository.

scholarly journals SHARING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH OPEN AND DISTANCE E-LEARNING EDUCATION: GLOBALIZING UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mani Festati Broto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Distance Education System

Universitas Terbuka (UT) as an open and distance e-learning institution in Indonesia, has widely intensify the interconnectivity on international stages. UT adopts international academic standard and pave its vision “to provide access to a world quality higher education for all through open and distance higher education”. Although, most of UT students do not yet have access to adequate internet connection, UT has been a reference for other open education institutions and was acknowledged by the global community to have been succeeded in managing distance education system. By outlining the concept of education diplomacy creates an explanation that the growth of globalized educational collaboration increases the importance of conveying people-to-people engagement through e-learning education system. In previous years, UT has aimed the mission toward an ASEAN distance education collaboration and offer an Open Online Certificate Program through MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses). The aim is to share knowledge among Indonesian and its counterparts in ASEAN.

SHARING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH OPEN AND DISTANCE E-LEARNING EDUCATION: GLOBALIZING UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mani Festati Broto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Distance Education System

Universitas Terbuka (UT) as an open and distance e-learning institution in Indonesia, has widely intensify the interconnectivity on international stages. UT adopts international academic standard and pave its vision “to provide access to a world quality higher education for all through open and distance higher education”. Although, most of UT students do not yet have access to adequate internet connection, UT has been a reference for other open education institutions and was acknowledged by the global community to have been succeeded in managing distance education system. By outlining the concept of education diplomacy creates an explanation that the growth of globalized educational collaboration increases the importance of conveying people-to-people engagement through e-learning education system. In previous years, UT has aimed the mission toward an ASEAN distance education collaboration and offer an Open Online Certificate Program through MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses). The aim is to share knowledge among Indonesian and its counterparts in ASEAN.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Journey of Open and Distance Education: Major Concepts and Cutoff Points in Research Trends

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ünal ÇAKIROĞLU ◽  
Mehmet KOKOÇ ◽  
Seyfullah GÖKOĞLU ◽  
Mücahit ÖZTÜRK ◽  
Fatih ERDOĞDU
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Cutoff Points ◽  
Upward Growth

In an effort to understand trends in open and distance education more comprehensively, this study aims to identify the research trends, major concepts, and cutoff points in the articles published between 2009 and 2016. From five major peer-reviewed journals, a total of 989 articles were analyzed through a systematic literature review process using content analysis. The articles were coded based on the following three categories: level, topics, and sub-topics. The results indicated the followings: (1) emerged main themes in the articles were foundations of open and distance education, instructional process, and effects of applications; (2) there was an upward growth in the publishing of the articles on massive open online courses, open educational resources, and students’ perspectives; (3) new pedagogical approaches and online learning design played a triggering role in the research topics; and (4) technological and pedagogical developments between 2011 and 2012 had an influence on the tendency of the articles. In addition, we explored cutoff points so that they may provide insights and valuable hints for researchers to design new studies in open and distance education field. Discussions about the gaps in the state-of-the-art trends and directions about future research were also included. 

Experience Gained From Applying a Team-Based Approach for MOOC Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Spyropoulou ◽  
Christos J. Pierrakeas ◽  
Achilles Kameas
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Open University ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
The World

Massive open online courses (MOOC) constitute an emerging technology for distance and open education while interest in incorporating them in higher education is constantly growing. Due to the free and open access learning opportunities that they offer, they attract an immense number of learners from all over the world. Additionally, because of their openness, they present major challenges, including network co-creation within communities and new forms of communication and collaboration for both students and educators. In this article, the authors present a methodology for a team-based development of MOOCs with the use of a recognized design model that they applied in Hellenic Open University. The main objective is to illustrate the lessons learnt during this MOOC development.

scholarly journals Are MOOCs Open Educational Resources? A literature review on history, definitions and typologies of OER and MOOCs

Open Praxis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. Stracke ◽  
Stephen Downes ◽  
Grainne Conole ◽  
Daniel Burgos ◽  
Fabio Nascimbeni
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Short Answer ◽  
Quality Framework ◽  
Leading Question

Open Education gained more visibility as a result of the emergence of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This article discusses whether MOOCs should be considered as OER. Open Education and OER can be treated as two strands with different historical roots even though, in theory, OER are an aspect of Open Education. Different OER definitions and typologies are analyzed in relation to their dimensions and categorizations. Furthermore, the four conditions and two original categories of MOOCs are discussed, leading to a debate on their quality. It turns out that there are two perspectives on MOOCs: from an OER perspective, MOOCs as a product can be called OER. From an Open Education perspective, MOOCs are going beyond OER as enablers of Open Education and are understood as an innovative way of changing education. These perspectives are reflected by the OpenEd Quality Framework. The short answer to our leading question is: sometimes, and it depends on your perspective.

scholarly journals Mapping the open education landscape: citation network analysis of historical open and distance education research

Open Praxis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Weller ◽  
Katy Jordan ◽  
Irwin DeVries ◽  
Viv Rolfe
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Citation Network ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Citation Network Analysis

The term open education has recently been used to refer to topics such as Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Historically its roots lie in civil approaches to education and open universities, but this research is rarely referenced or acknowledged in current interpretations. In this article the antecedents of the modern open educational movement are examined, as the basis for connecting the various strands of research. Using a citation analysis method the key references are extracted and their relationships mapped. This work reveals eight distinct sub-topics within the broad open education area, with relatively little overlap. The implications for this are discussed and methods of improving inter-topic research are proposed.

scholarly journals A tale about Zen philosophy and a motorcycle (that is: OER & MOOC quality)

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia Ghislandi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Gradual Improvement ◽  
Peace Of Mind ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Shared Culture

Abstract The paper introduces the concept of education quality, mainly based on a shared culture, that is a background for a permanent reflection on a process in which teachers, students, and stakeholders are involved, in a gradual improvement of their competence. People can achieve quality if they head for an open, participatory, iterative trajectory towards personal identity construction through the achievement of satisfaction of a well done work. In this context measurement tools and final quality controls are only a means “toward the end of satisfying the peace of mind of those responsible for the work” (Pirsig, first edition 1974, 2005, p.304). The also describes the Open Educational Resources and Massive Open Online Courses phenomenon, and presents the most recent studies about the theoretical framework and practical tools available in the scientific literature to scaffold the quality evaluation of open education. The discussion, taking full advantage of the literature presented, recognises that we are still in the infancy of the Open Education quality evaluation, and that the available tools have still to demonstrate their value in the application's fields, through empirical researches.

scholarly journals A survey of the awareness, offering, and adoption of OERs and MOOCs in Japan

Open Praxis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsusuke Shigeta ◽  
Mitsuyo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyuki Sakai ◽  
Yasuhiro Tsuji ◽  
Rieko Inaba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Previous Survey ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
The Government

Awareness about Open Educational Resources (OERs) and the purposes for offering and adopting OERs and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were analyzed using a detailed survey of higher education across Japan, which was conducted in 2015. A comparison with a similar study conducted in 2013 revealed that awareness of OERs has increased slightly and the number of MOOCs offered has increased significantly in the intervening two years. The increase of offerings and adoption was low for OERs but high for MOOCs. OERs are used to improve the learning environment for students, while MOOCs aim to promote lifelong learning. Only one-fifth of the institutions surveyed in 2013 offered MOOCs or advanced their plans to offer them in 2015, and institutions that did offer MOOCs or advance such plans to offer them after the previous survey tended to provide MOOCs for society and for promotional purposes, not only for themselves because Japanese institutions are self-sustainable in terms of open education activities, operating without the support of the government or foundations.

scholarly journals Examining Value Change in MOOCs in the Scope of Connectivism and Open Educational Resources Movement

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
HAYRIYE TUGBA OZTURK
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Value Change ◽  
Massive Open Online

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) came to prominence with Open Educational Resources Movement (OERM). It was based upon the idea of libre in removal of some permission barriers and gratis in removing the price barrier (Suber, 2008) in learning resources. In line with the theoretical underpinnings of OERM, MOOCs embody primary characteristics of connectivist pedagogy which are autonomy, diversity, openness, and community participation. However, in time, moving away from its original philosophical and pedagogical values, new variations of MOOCs have emerged and new MOOCs have become more market oriented and are aligned with instructivist, cognitive, and behaviourist pedagogy. In an attempt to empirically examine the change in underlying values of the MOOCs, a survey method was employed by using a Connectivist Learning Environment Assessment Tool which was developed in the scope of this research. The tool could be useful for formulating and justifying a conceptual framework that enables us to reify the connectivist pedagogy and assess connectivist underpinnings of a learning environment including MOOCs. This research aims to contribute to MOOC studies against the background of previous knowledge from the Open Education and Connectivist fields.

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