By . My main argument in the webinar is that we are moving to a point where (nearly) all academic and other content will be open, free and easily accessible online. There is no need for subject experts to select and package knowledge for students. More...
IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) - Vol 12, No 2 (2011)
Editorial
Terry Anderson
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i-iii
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Research Articles
Simon Paul Atkinson
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1-18
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Thomas Michael Power, Anthony Morven-Gould
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19-39
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Julie Shattuck, Bobbi Dubins, Diana Zilberman
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40-61
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Véra L B Dolan
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62-77
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Yeonjeong Park
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78-102
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Christopher Francis Naughton, John Roder, Juliette Emma Smeed
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103-121
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Field Notes
Tina Lim, Mansor Fadzil, Norziati Mansor
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122-137
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Book Notes
Book review - Economics of distance and online learning: Theory, practice and research
Wolfram Laaser
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138-142
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Technical Notes
Tanya Elias
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143-156
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Douglas Burton, Tim Kitchen
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157-165
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IRRODL Volume 12, Number 2
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1-169
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The pedagogical enhancement of open education: An examination of problem-based learning
Open education, as embodied in open educational resources (OER) and OpenCourseWare (OCW), has met and dealt with several key problems. The movement now has a critical mass of available content. Leveraging no small amount of funding and associated development, open education has the tools to collect, disseminate, and support the discovery of open materials. More...
IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) - Vol 11, No 3 (2010)
Editorial
Thanksgiving
Terry Anderson
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i-iii
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Research Articles
William Sugar, Abbie Brown, Kenneth Luterbach
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1-20
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Puvaneswary Murugaiah, Siew Ming Thang
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21-41
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Randall S. Davies, Scott L. Howell, Jo Ann Petrie
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42-56
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Michael E. Ward, Gary Peters, Kyna Shelley
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57-77
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Kathy L. Guthrie, Holly McCracken
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78-94
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Seth Gurell, Yu-Chun Kuo, Andrew Walker
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95-105
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Ining Tracy Chao, Tami Saj, Doug Hamilton
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106-126
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Peter Shea, Suzanne Hayes, Jason Vickers
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127-154
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Book Notes
Book review - A designer's log: Case studies in instructional design
Airina Volungevičienė
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155-157
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Book review - Accessible elements: Teaching science online and at a distance
Bryan F. Woodfield
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158-163
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Book review - Mega-schools, technology and teachers: Achieving education for all
Alejandro Pisanty
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164-167
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IRRODL Volume 11, Number 3
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1-171
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The relationship between academic discipline and dialogic behavior in open university course forums
The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between disciplinary difference (exact and natural sciences versus humanities) and the dialogic behavior that occurred in Open University course forums. Dialogic behavior was measured in terms of students’ and instructors’ active participation in the forum (posting a message) as well as amounts and proportions of “teaching presence,” “cognitive presence,” and “social presence.” We found that active participation in the science forums was much higher than in the humanities forums. More...
IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) - Vol 11, No 2 (2010)
Editorial
Editorial
Terry Anderson
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i-iii
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Research Articles
Patrick Parrish, Jennifer Linder-VanBerschot
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1-19
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Jan Tucker, Patricia Neely
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20-32
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Peter Bergström
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33-48
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Paul Gorsky, Avner Caspi, Avishai Antonovsky, Ina Blau, Asmahan Mansur
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49-72
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Janet M. Ferguson, Amy E. DeFelice
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73-84
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Field Notes
Gudula Naiga Basaza, Natalie B. Milman, Clayton R. Wright
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85-91
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Book Notes
Learning cultures in online education
Nataly Tcherepashenets
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92-96
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Perspectives on distance education: Open schooling in the 21st century
Ramesh Chander Sharma
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97-99
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Technical Notes
Terralyn McKee
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100-109
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Tanya Elias
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110-124
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CIDER Notes
Message interactions in online asynchronous discussions: The problem of being “too nice”
Geoffrey Roulet
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Three generations of distance education pedagogy
Terry Anderson
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IRRODL Volume 11, Number 2
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1-128
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How open education will revolutionize higher education
Open textbooks gain in push for college affordability
By Michael Melia. Open textbooks are growing in popularity as university administrators see them as a way to increase affordability. More...
IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) - Vol 11, No 1 (2010)
Editorial
IRRODL policy changes
Terry Anderson
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i-iii
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Research Articles
Markus Deimann, Theo Bastiaens
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1-16
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Zuochen Zhang, Richard Kenny
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17-36
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Albert Dieter Ritzhaupt, Michelle Stewart, Patryce Smith, Ann E. Barron
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37-60
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Lucy Barnard-Brak, Valerie Osland Paton, William Yun Lan
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61-80
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Meghan E. Marrero, Jessica Fitzsimons Riccio, Karen A. Woodruff, Glen S. Schuster
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81-95
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Francis Donkor
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96-116
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John-Harmen Valk, Ahmed T. Rashid, Laurent Elder
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117-140
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Field Notes
Reaching REMOTE learners: Successes and challenges for students in an online graduate degree program in the Pacific Islands
Kavita Rao, Charles Giuli
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141-160
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"Can you hear me, Hanoi?" Compensatory mechanisms employed in synchronous net-based English language learning
Una Mary Cunningham, Kristy Beers Fägersten, Elin Holmsten
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161-177
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Book Notes
Distance and blended learning in Asia
Tony Bates
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178-181
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CIDER Notes
Blended online learning design: Shaken not stirred
Norm Vaughn, Michael Power
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Bi-national learning and the Internet: Grassroots experiments in global education
William Egnatoff
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Moving online: Taking teaching and learning beyond four walls
Steven Rowe
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IRRODL Volume 11, Number 1
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1-185
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Incentives and Disincentives for the Use of OpenCourseWare
This article examines Utah residents’ views of incentives and disincentives for the use of OpenCourseWare (OCW), and how they fit into the theoretical framework of perceived innovation attributes established by Rogers (1983). Rogers identified five categories of perceived innovation attributes: relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability. More...
Open Educational Resources: New Possibilities for Change and Sustainability
In an attempt to understand the potential of OER for change and sustainability, this paper presents the results of an informal survey of active and inactive collections of online educational resources, emphasizing data related to collection longevity and the project attributes associated with it. More...