scholarly journals SUBJECTIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE STUDENT WHEN USING OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (33) ◽  
pp. 613-629
Author(s):  
B. BAZYLOVA ◽  
Z. ZHUSUPOVA ◽  
G. KAZHIGALIEVA ◽  
A. ONALBAYEVA ◽  
V. KALININA
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Applied Chemistry ◽  
Technological Basis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Spatially Distributed ◽  
Distributed Structures ◽  
The University

The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that open educational resources carry the ability to overcome the basic methodological construct complicating the learning process among students and namely the use of international experience while learning and obtaining knowledge. This study shows the aspects of functioning open educational resources and their technological basis. The novelty of the work was the formation of a model for the use of open educational resources in training of specialized courses of the Department of applied chemistry. The authors showed that the effectiveness of open educational resources use depends directly on the share of online learning and technological isolation of subjects. In particular, not only learning processes in the implementation of the program in applied chemistry, but also other disciplines that require the exchange of experience between countries and the use of a wide range of technological equipment and online structure are considered. In particular, training on the example of databases, information networks, and other spatially distributed structures are considered too. The practical significance of the study is defined by the fact that the use of open educational resources will not only intensify the learning process at the university, but also to determine the possibility of integration into the world educational space.

scholarly journals A MODEL FOR EVALUATING AND ELIMINATING THE PROBLEMS OF “SHOСK” TRANSITION TO DISTANCE LEARNING IN A MODERN UNIVERSITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-321
Author(s):  
Oleg S. Koshevoy ◽  
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Irina G. Khokhlova ◽  
Svetlana V. Dudkina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The University

T he current epidemic situation in Russia and the world caused by coronavirus infection requires prompt solutions to eliminate the consequences of the pandemic in almost all sectors of economic activity. The isolation of the population from mutual contacts was one of the effective solutions to the problem. This arose the need for the educational institutions to promptly switch to a remote mode of education. Those involved in the distance learning process faced a wide range of different problems, which defines the topicality of developing the efficient measures aimed to overcome the challenges of the distance learning process. The subject of the work is the analysis of the processes arising from the sudden transition of the educational environment of the university to the distance learning format, the development of a rating model designed to grade the problems which are important for the students and which are determined by the transition to the distance learning format, and the development of directions for solving the established problems. The aim of the study is to identify the problems that have arisen from the transition to a distance learning format among the students and to develop an organizational and managerial tool to fix these problems. The study relies on the information taken from a secondary data analysis performed by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) and the results of their own research by the students specializing in Economics at the Institute of Economics and Management in Penza State University. The research methods included SPSS based comparative and frequency analysis. The scientific novelty of the work is as follows: 1) a rating evaluation of the problems arising from the transfer of the educational process of the university to a distance learning format in the context of a "shock" transition associated with force majeure caused by coronavirus infection has been developed; 2) University students’ satisfaction with distance learning and students’ readiness to apply the technological distance learning tools and possibilities of Moodle based electronic educational resources in the distance learning format have been identified. Statistical processing of the research results with nonparametric criteria contributes into the reliability of the findings and the recommendation. The practical significance of the research lies in the developed concept of the organizational and managerial mechanism for overcoming the problems arising from the transition to the university’s distance learning environment. This mechanism refers to the social and informational areas, reduces the time of transition to the distance learning format, and accounts for the interests and readiness of the teaching staff and students. Further research is seen to be connected with monitoring the validity of the revealed problems in their dynamics with a one semester lag.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned from the Development of Open Educational Resources at Post-Secondary Level in the Field of Environmental Modelling: An Exploratory Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quazi K. Hassan ◽  
Khan R. Rahaman ◽  
Kazi Z. Sumon ◽  
Ashraf Dewan
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Environmental Modelling ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Student Ratings Of Instruction ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Open educational resources (OER) have become increasingly popular in recent times. Here, the aim was to synthesise the lessons learned through the development of OER materials for a university-level course called “environmental modelling”. Consequently, the topics of discussion included: (i) how to choose an appropriate creative commons license; (ii) ways of incorporating materials from other sources, such as publicly available sources, other open access materials, and an author’s own published materials if not published under a creative commons license; (iii) the impact of the developed OER in the field of environmental modelling; and (iv) the challenges in developing OER material. Upon developing the materials, we observed the following: (i) students enrolled in the course did not purchase textbooks; (ii) our OER materials ranked as one of the most accessed (i.e., number 7) materials according to the usage data that summed the number of file downloads and item views from PRISM (i.e., the hosting platform maintained by the University of Calgary); (iii) the students learned relatively better as per the data acquired by the University of Calgary’s universal student ratings of instruction (USRI) instrument; and (iv) other universities expressed interest in adopting the materials.

scholarly journals TrueLearn: A Family of Bayesian Algorithms to Match Lifelong Learners to Open Educational Resources

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (01) ◽  
pp. 565-573
Author(s):  
Sahan Bulathwela ◽  
Maria Perez-Ortiz ◽  
Emine Yilmaz ◽  
John Shawe-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Computer Assisted Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learners ◽  
Knowledge States ◽  
Wide Range

The recent advances in computer-assisted learning systems and the availability of open educational resources today promise a pathway to providing cost-efficient high-quality education to large masses of learners. One of the most ambitious use cases of computer-assisted learning is to build a lifelong learning recommendation system. Unlike short-term courses, lifelong learning presents unique challenges, requiring sophisticated recommendation models that account for a wide range of factors such as background knowledge of learners or novelty of the material while effectively maintaining knowledge states of masses of learners for significantly longer periods of time (ideally, a lifetime). This work presents the foundations towards building a dynamic, scalable and transparent recommendation system for education, modelling learner's knowledge from implicit data in the form of engagement with open educational resources. We i) use a text ontology based on Wikipedia to automatically extract knowledge components of educational resources and, ii) propose a set of online Bayesian strategies inspired by the well-known areas of item response theory and knowledge tracing. Our proposal, TrueLearn, focuses on recommendations for which the learner has enough background knowledge (so they are able to understand and learn from the material), and the material has enough novelty that would help the learner improve their knowledge about the subject and keep them engaged. We further construct a large open educational video lectures dataset and test the performance of the proposed algorithms, which show clear promise towards building an effective educational recommendation system.

The Effects of Using Open Educational Resources on Minority Achievement in Undergraduate Mathematics

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-41
Author(s):  
Josephine Dunbar Davis ◽  
Samuel Bradley Cartwright
Keyword(s):  
Cost Savings ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
State University ◽  
Minority Achievement ◽  
Course Enrollment ◽  
University System Of Georgia ◽  
Algebra Students ◽  
Historically Black University ◽  
The University

Prominent in the public debate on college affordability is the rising cost of textbooks. Owing to limited finances or mounting college debt, many students fail to purchase required course textbooks. Among the perils students without textbooks face are delayed course enrollment, high failure or dropout rates, and extended time to graduation. At Fort Valley State University, an Historically Black University within the University System of Georgia, the mathematics faculty first observed increasing numbers of college algebra students without textbooks, then, similarly, with upper division students. As a cost-savings measure, the faculty redesigned eight courses using open educational resources (OER). This chapter highlights the four-year results of faculty and students' OER course experiences. OER students have better grades, lower failure rates, and better attendance records than those using traditional textbooks. The attitude of OER students towards mathematics also improved. A total cost savings of $197,780 was realized with an average, per student savings of $198.

scholarly journals Obituary notices of fellows deceased

1928 ◽  
Vol 118 (780) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Research Worker ◽  
Chemical Research ◽  
Applied Chemistry ◽  
Rapid Succession ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University ◽  
Similar Organization

The earlier years of Albin Haller were spent in his native village of Felleringen, not far from Mulhouse, where he was born on March 7th, 1849. He was the eldest son of a family of eleven, and at the age of 14, after he had attended the primary school at Wesserling, he was apprenticed as a carpenter in his father's workshop. However, by a lucky chance, he happened, two years later, to make the acquaintance of a pharmacist, M. Achille Gault, who took him into his laboratory and gave him his first lessons in chemistry. For three years M. Gault, who was quick to recognize the marked ability of his pupil, devoted his leisure time to the training of Haller, and ultimately sent him to his brother, M. Leon Gault, of Colmar, to whom he became assistant. Early in the Franco-Prussian was Haller volunteered for service, joining at Belfort in 1870, but after the disastrous year of 1871 he elected to remain in France and rejoined M. Gault at Nancy, where he assisted in the establishment of a pharmacy, and continued to study for his pharmaceutical examinations under the direction of his master. In 1872 the University of Strasbourg was established at Nancy, and Haller became in rapid succession "aide-préparateur," "préparateur" and "chef de travaux" in the Ecole Supérieure de Pharmacie. In 1879 he obtained the "doctorat ès sciences," and in 1885 was appointed a professor in the Faculty of Science of the University. By this time his keen insight and great manipulative skill as a research worker, and his marked ability as an administrator and inspiring lecturer, had become generally recognized, so that in 1899 he was called to Paris as successor to Friedel and Wurtz at the Sorbonne. From this time onward, up to within a very short period of his death, at the age of 76, Haller continued to publish at frequent intervals a great number of original memoirs, amounting in all to 250, covering a wide range of chemical research. His great organizing ability enabled him to establish the Institut Chimique of the University of Nancy in 1890, and subsequently a similar organization devoted to the study of physical and electro-chemistry. He was chiefly responsible for the development of the teaching of applied chemistry in France, and in 1908 succeeded Berthelot as President of the Commission on Explosives.

scholarly journals Open educational resources for cartography: the Thematic Mapping Tutor

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barend Köbben
Keyword(s):  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Thematic Maps ◽  
Design Rules ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Thematic Mapping ◽  
Technical Details ◽  
The University ◽  
Web Based System

At the ITC faculty of the University of Twente, we have been teaching cartography for more then 60 years. Throughout this period, the technology of mapping has undergone spectacular changes and nowadays most students do not draw their maps any more, but use software instead. However, for maps to be effective in communication, their design still has to follow the same rules as before. Ideally, one wants to teach these design rules independently from the tools, such that the students understand how a good map works, not just which buttons to click to create it. For this purpose, we created the Thematic Mapping Tutor. It is an open, web-based system that provides a structured way of constructing thematic maps out of selected data. The system uses the input of the student to construct a map in the Vega-Lite grammar, which is transformed to web-graphics. In this paper we describe the educational philosophy behind the system, as well as technical details about its functionality. We report on first tests, and reflect on the possibilities and pitfalls of the system.

scholarly journals Share knowledge, participate in open education and create oer

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Nobre
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Pedagogical Design ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Open Educational Practices

This article focus on the presentation of a curricular unit of an online master's course and its innovative pedagogical design: share, participate in Open Education and its integration of Open Educational Resources towards an opening movement for knowledge democratization. Thus, are analyzed pedagogical strategies and their impact in students learning process to determine the importance of this movement for an effective and successful learning process. Based on the perspectives of teachers and students(Portuguese, Brazilian and Africans), in order to understand the dynamics of using and sharing online resources in their pedagogical practices, we signal the need to develop innovative open educational practices from the point of view of (co) authorship for the integration of Open Educational Resources in online education and we highlight the students' products resulting from this process and reveal the achievements that this philosophy can reach.

scholarly journals THE USE OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AS AN URGENT DIRECTION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRACTICAL TRAINING OF FUTURE SPEECH THERAPISTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-99
Author(s):  
Екатерина Алексеевна Гордеева
Keyword(s):  
Speech Therapy ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Speech Therapists

Рассматривается актуальность использования открытых образовательных ресурсов при подготовке будущих учителей-логопедов, обучающихся по направлению 44.03.03 Специальное (дефектологическое) образование, профиль: Логопедия. Обоснованы актуальность исследования и особенности применения открытых образовательных ресурсов в университете. Проанализирован опыт использования открытых образовательных ресурсов в зарубежных странах (Япония, Нидерланды, Германия, США, Франция, страны Африки), основные документы и опыт ведущих вузов России в их применении, призванных сделать подготовку высококвалифицированных кадров, способных к профессиональному и мобильному росту в условиях информатизации современного общества и развития новых наукоемких технологий. Отображены особенности использования открытых образовательных ресурсов в Томском государственном педагогическом университете. Представлен анализ результатов тестирования преподавателей и студентов по направлению «Логопедия» в сфере применения и обучения использованию открытых образовательных ресурсов в университете. Приведены обоснованные данные актуальности темы для углубленного дальнейшего изучения. В связи с внедрением дистанционного формата обучения вузы стали активно развиваться в цифровом пространстве, особенно остро стал вопрос о прохождении практики обучающимися в дистанционном формате, а также теоретических курсов с наличием практических часов. The article examines the relevance of the use of open educational resources in the preparation of future teachers-speech therapists studying in the direction 44.03.03 Special (defectological) education, profile: Speech therapy. The article substantiates the relevance of the research and the features of the application of open educational resources at the university. The results of the survey of students and teachers are presented. The experience of using open educational resources in foreign countries (Japan, Holland, Germany, USA, France, African countries), the main documents and the experience of leading Russian universities in their application, designed to prepare highly qualified personnel capable of professional and mobile growth in conditions of informatization modern society and the development of new science-intensive technologies. The study reflects the features of the use of open educational resources at Tomsk State Pedagogical University. The analysis of the results of testing teachers and students in the direction of Speech Therapy, in the field of application and training in the use of open educational resources at the university is presented. Provided substantiated data on the relevance of the topic for in-depth further study. In connection with the introduction of the distance learning format, higher educational institutions began to actively develop in the digital space, the issue of practical training for students in a distance format, as well as the passage of theoretical courses with the availability of practical hours, became especially acute.

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