OERopoly

Author(s):  
Teresa Connolly ◽  
Elpida Makriyannis

The Open Educational Resources (OER) community supports the belief that knowledge is a public good and, combined with technological advancement, can provide an extraordinary opportunity to help equalize the distribution of high-quality knowledge and educational opportunities for everyone in the world. This chapter’s hypothesis centres on the premise that: “The OER ecology does not seem to be widely adopted or understood and that game-playing has the potential to raise awareness and improve understanding of such relationships in an entertaining manner, while engaging in a deep discussion about OER best practices.” To address this hypothesis, the authors present OERopoly, a game that has been designed and developed to raise awareness about OER. They set out to assess game-playing as a means of improving collaborative learning opportunities around OER projects through this OER ecology: the OER projects themselves, the online communities, and the Web 2.0 technologies used by OER projects.

2015 ◽  
pp. 1903-1914
Author(s):  
Ramesh C. Sharma

The world over, some common factors have contributed to the emergence and growth of open educational resources. These can be to increase access to educational materials, to reduce the costs, to enhance the quality of educational content through working collaboratively, and to be used for capacity building and research. The WikiEducator project has been the foremost initiative to turn digital divide into digital dividends through free content and open networks. WikiEducator was established on 1 May 2006, and since then, it has grown a very big network of more than 66,700 registered WikiEducators. Learning4Content is one of the flagship initiative of WikiEducator providing free training for teachers. In this chapter, the author discusses building a vibrant and sustainable global community contributing to design, development, and delivery of free content for learning and providing training to develop wiki skills for mass collaboration to create high quality learning resources.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
Alfredo BAUTISTA ◽  
Rosario ORTEGA-RUIZ

RESUMEN: En la actualidad, numerosas naciones en el mundo se encuentran embarcadas en profundas reformas de sus sistemas educativos. Existe un acuerdo generalizado entre políticos educativos, académicos y educadores en que una de las claves para el éxito de dichas reformas es fomentar el desarrollo profesional docente (DPD). Cada año, los gobiernos invierten cantidades astronómicas de dinero en el aprendizaje continuo de los profesores. Sin embargo, la literatura indica que buena parte del DPD ofrecido a los profesores es ineficaz, teniendo un efecto reducido o incluso nulo sobre sus prácticas y/o sobre el aprendizaje de los alumnos. Este monográfico describe las perspectivas y enfoques de DPD en cinco naciones altamente comprometidas con la investigación y/o la práctica en este campo. Conocer cómo el DPD se estructura en tales naciones puede ayudar a otras a diseñar oportunidades de aprendizaje más favorables para sus profesores. El artículo de Estados Unidos ofrece un marco general respecto a las características del DPD de alta calidad y ofrece ejemplos de recientes iniciativas eficaces. Los cuatro artículos siguientes describen los modelos de DPD en Australia, Hong Kong, Finlandia y Singapur, algunos de los países con sistemas educativos más exitosos. Dado que el aprendizaje continuo del profesorado se considera una prioridad, estas naciones han desarrollado sólidas infraestructuras de DPD para responder a las necesidades e intereses de los profesores. El monográfico concluye con una contribución de España, el país donde se edita la revista Psychology, Society and Education. La autora discute los cinco artículos anteriores y reflexiona sobre cómo las ideas presentadas podrían mejorar el DPD ofrecido actualmente a los profesores de otras naciones, en particular de España.Teacher Professional Development: International Perspectives and ApproachesABSTRACT: Nations around the world are currently embarked in deep reforms of their education systems. There is widespread agreement among policymakers, scholars, and educators that one of the keys for success during these reforms is promoting the professional development (PD) of in-service teachers. Every year, governments invest astronomical amounts of money on teacher continuous learning. However, the literature shows that much of the PD offered to teachers is inefficient, having small or no effect on teaching practices and/or student learning. This monograph describes the perspectives and approaches to teacher PD of five nations heavily committed to research and/or practice in this field. Understanding how PD is structured in these nations may guide others in designing more favorable learning opportunities for their teachers. The article from United States provides a general framework regarding the features of high-quality PD and offers examples of recent effective initiatives. The four following articles describe the PD models of Australia, Hong Kong, Finland, and Singapore, among the highest-achievers in education presently. Because teacher continuous learning is a high priority in these nations, strong infrastructures for high-quality PD have been built to meet teachers’ needs and interests. The monograph closes with a contribution from Spain, the country where the journal Psychology, Society and Education is edited. The author discusses the five prior articles and reflects on how the ideas presented could improve the PD currently offered to teachers in other nations, particularly Spain.


2011 ◽  
pp. 16-30
Author(s):  
Magdi N. Kamel

The phenomenal worldwide growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web has made it an important vehicle for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) commerce. While the Web offers great opportunities for international electronic commerce by eliminating the barriers of time and space, language, cultural, legal, and infrastructure issues present major impediments to global Internet commerce. In this chapter we address language, cultural, legal, and infrastructure issues as barriers to international electronic commerce. Specifically the chapter presents a framework for identifying and addressing language, cultural, legal and infrastructure issues. The goal is to help organizations meet the challenge of providing online international visitors with a high quality experience, regardless of location, language, business practices, and culture, while complying with legal requirements.


2021 ◽  
pp. 109804822110044
Author(s):  
Juan Mundel

As a result of the stay-at-home mandates related to Covid-19 across the world, higher education institutions scrambled to move their curricula online. With no clear guidelines on when face-to-face (F2F) instruction will resume on campuses across the nation, this article can be a helpful guide for educators who teach, or are planning on teaching, Advertising Campaigns online. Specifically, an online asynchronous approach to teaching this fundamental course is described. Furthermore, this article provides an overview of the materials used and reviews alternative strategies to accomplish meaningful learning opportunities through the web.


Author(s):  
Ramesh C. Sharma

The world over, some common factors have contributed to the emergence and growth of open educational resources. These can be to increase access to educational materials, to reduce the costs, to enhance the quality of educational content through working collaboratively, and to be used for capacity building and research. The WikiEducator project has been the foremost initiative to turn digital divide into digital dividends through free content and open networks. WikiEducator was established on 1 May 2006, and since then, it has grown a very big network of more than 66,700 registered WikiEducators. Learning4Content is one of the flagship initiative of WikiEducator providing free training for teachers. In this chapter, the author discusses building a vibrant and sustainable global community contributing to design, development, and delivery of free content for learning and providing training to develop wiki skills for mass collaboration to create high quality learning resources.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-271
Author(s):  
Dragoș DRĂGHICESCU ◽  
Alexandru CARANICA ◽  
Octavian FRATU

Abstract: In this paper, we offer a brief summary of latest developments in honeypot technologies, used for malware detection and analysis. This includes not only honeypot software, but also methodologies to analyze captured honeypot data. As such, our focus in this work is to keep track of current developments related to traffic analysis, especially honeypot technologies, as a means of data capture and interpretation of malicious traffic. Zero-day attacks are still very hard to predict, then handle, by any security platform. Means to successfully predict an attack is of paramount importance to the world of cybersecurity. Effective network security administration depends, to a great extent, on the understanding of existing and emerging threats propagated over the web. In order to protect information systems and its users, it is of crucial importance to collect accurate, concise, high-quality information about malicious activities, for security researchers to be able to reverse-engineer, then understand and stop a malicious actor.


Author(s):  
Andy Lane

This chapter examines the role that open educational resources might play in widening participation in higher education. It begins by highlighting the perceived importance of widening participation in higher education throughout the world and how that is defined, followed by the role that openness plays more generally in higher education, and then discusses the many ways in which open educational resources may help in opening up higher education by widening the audiences for them. It goes on to set out a conceptual framework for analysing both widening participation activities and open educational resources. It concludes that openness, as exemplified by open educational resources, is beginning to influence educational opportunities around the world, but that care is needed in setting out the contexts in which such activity is taking place.


Author(s):  
Magdi N. Kamel

The phenomenal worldwide growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web has made it an important vehicle for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) commerce. While the Web offers great opportunities for international electronic commerce by eliminating the barriers of time and space, language, cultural, legal, and infrastructure issues present major impediments to global Internet commerce. In this chapter we address language, cultural, legal, and infrastructure issues as barriers to international electronic commerce. Specifically the chapter presents a framework for identifying and addressing language, cultural, legal and infrastructure issues. The goal is to help organizations meet the challenge of providing online international visitors with a high quality experience, regardless of location, language, business practices, and culture, while complying with legal requirements.


2018 ◽  
pp. 113-119
Author(s):  
Gennady Ya. Vagin ◽  
Eugene B. Solntsev ◽  
Oleg Yu. Malafeev

The article analyses critera applying to the choice of energy efficient high quality light sources and luminaires, which are used in Russian domestic and international practice. It is found that national standards GOST P 54993–2012 and GOST P 54992– 2012 contain outdated criteria for determining indices and classes of energy efficiency of light sources and luminaires. They are taken from the 1998 EU Directive #98/11/EU “Electric lamps”, in which LED light sources and discharge lamps of high intensity were not included. A new Regulation of the European Union #874/2012/EU on energy labelling of electric lamps and luminaires, in which these light sources are taken into consideration, contains a new technique of determining classes of energy efficiency and new, higher classes are added. The article has carried out a comparison of calculations of the energy efficiency classes in accordance with GOST P 54993 and with Regulation #874/2012/EU, and it is found out that a calculation using GOST P 54993 gives underrated energy efficiency classes. This can lead to interdiction of export for certain light sources and luminaires, can discredit Russian domestic manufacturer light sources and does not correspond to the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO).


2019 ◽  
Vol 25242644 ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
Vitalii Handziuk

The main principles of developing of a program concept, target, genre-thematic and audience intended purposes of the Ukrainian FM-radio station «Lvivska khvylya» radio series are considered. It’s concluded that the radio «Lvivskа khvylya» successfully creates the actual, original content of the broadcast, hold onto the genres of radio journalism and the formula of radio success – a beautiful and cheerful mood, a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, a lively conversation; promptly informs the audience about current and important events in the country and in the world; journalists create high-quality content – informational, analytical, entertainment and musical radio series.


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