Assessing the Potential Toward Open Educational Practices in Kyrgyzstan

Assessing the Potential Toward Open Educational Practices in Kyrgyzstan
Anita R Walz, Jyldyz Bekbalaeva, Open Praxis, 2018/04/20
This is the first reference to Kyrgyzstan in the almost 30,000 posts in OLDaily over the last 20 years, and proof that open education has become a completely worldwide phenomenon. According to the abstract, "Analysis of the results revealed a higher than expected gravitation toward student-centered pedagogy than previously assumed. The study also identified broad use of digital downloads as learning materials, conflation of open educational resources with free online resources." This actually doesn't surprise me, because OERs and student-centered pedagogy go hand-in-hand. More...