scholarly journals Teaching Perspective of the Democratization of Knowledge on Open Educational Resources (OER) for MOOCs in México

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 128-137
Author(s):  
José Israel Méndez Ojeda ◽  
Francisco Ramón May Ayuso ◽  
Gabriel Hernández Ravell

This research aims to explore the teachers’ perspective from the Autonomous University of Yucatán, México (known as UADY in spanish) about of the Democratization of Knowledge on the Open Educational Resources (OER), especially on adapting the existing instructional models to be designed as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). This study was conducted under the qualitative approaches part of the elective course ‘Designing and Developing OERs’ using the case study research method. Triangulation of the participants’ perspectives, teacher and students, was done to ensure reliability and validity.

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Carolin Fuchs

This case study explores cultural and contextual affordances in language massive open online courses (LMOOCs), especially the extent to which an LMOOC effectively promotes optimal language learning. Participants included 15 language student teachers of English as a second or foreign language in a spring technology elective course at a private university on the East Coast. Student teachers enrolled in language MOOCs and tracked and evaluated their learning process and progress through weekly logs and surveys. Data was collected from weekly reflection logs and pre- and post-surveys. Results indicate that the cultural affordances were more salient in the advanced Spanish MOOC and the Hindi MOOC, while in the beginning-level LMOOCs, contextual factors were lacking overall.


2016 ◽  
Vol E99.D (8) ◽  
pp. 2140-2150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sila CHUNWIJITRA ◽  
Chanchai JUNLOUCHAI ◽  
Sitdhibong LAOKOK ◽  
Pornchai TUMMARATTANANONT ◽  
Kamthorn KRAIRAKSA ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 1833-1842
Author(s):  
Camelia Draghici ◽  
Ileana Manciulea ◽  
Anca Vasilescu ◽  
Stefano Girotti ◽  
Luca Ferrari ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-253
Author(s):  
Sittara Hakim

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.


Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Camelia Draghici

It is accepted that the COVID-19 pandemic opened the interest for open learning/education, for which there are three accepted meanings: (i) open universities, (ii) massive open online courses (MOOCs), and (iii) open educational resources (OERs). In this context, this work presents the development of OERs for learning about the environmental quality monitoring system and its related activities, where environmental analysis is a critical stage part of the process. The contents of the created OERs include video presentation/commented slides, text-based learning resources, and intermediate/final tests, available for free in the public domain.


2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 623-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Sanchez-Gordon ◽  
Sergio Luján-Mora

There are millions of people worldwide—of all ages, conditions, backgrounds, and motivations—with significant learning needs. Unfortunately, traditional education is not efficient enough to meet these needs. That is, the available educational resources are not fully exploited to help cover the demand. There is an increasing need for large-scale access to cost-effective and high-quality education. The use of technological innovations for large-scale teaching might be part of the solution. In this context, the goals of this study were to identify technological innovations that can be considered historical milestones in large-scale teaching, to systematize experts’ opinions about the topic, and to propose strategies for the successful implementation of massive open online courses (MOOCs). The researchers identified and analyzed a documentary corpus and found that, in the use of technologies for large-scale teaching, there has been a parallel evolution that have led to the emergence of MOOCs and includes five roots: distance education and online learning, testing or teaching machines and computer-assisted instruction, learning management systems, open education and open educational resources, and online massive teaching. The researchers propose three strategies for the successful implementation of MOOCs: careful consideration of the c/x MOOC pedagogical spectrum characteristics, selection of an appropriate MOOC model, and management of implementation challenges.


Open Praxis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. Stracke ◽  
Stephen Downes ◽  
Grainne Conole ◽  
Daniel Burgos ◽  
Fabio Nascimbeni

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.


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