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Em educação de infância, a qualidade importa. A investigação tem fundamentado esta afirmação identificando relações consistentes (e persistentes) entre a qualidade dos contextos pré-escolares e o desenvolvimento das crianças. Contudo, a investigação tem também sugerido que determinadas dimensões de qualidade são mais importantes para domínios específicos do desenvolvimento da criança.
ISPA-Instituto Universitário e Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto. More...

Open Educational Resources (OER) have the potential to broaden access to education and to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of teaching and learning in Europe. The best way to put OERs into practice is through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). MOOCs are large-scale courses that represent one of the latest developments in open education, an initiative that is always trying to improve quality, access and equality in education and training.
Elearning Communication Open-Data. More...

Are MOOCs providing the European workforce with necessary web skills?
That is the key question being explored at this upcoming one-day event taking place in Helsinki on November 17th.
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The conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Learning are now openly available online.
The conference took place on 22-23 September and featured research from across Europe. The conference proceedings are a comprehensive and deep resource, compiling the knowledge of researchers pushing forward the field of online learning in Europe. More...

The OECD's Education at a Glance annual report is a behemoth of a study, with over 100 000 figures and including data from the 34 OECD countries and several partner countries. It provides a full spectrum of indicators describing the state of education in the world.
Education at a Glance 2014. More...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a new type of online class that allow anyone, anywhere, to participate via video lectures, computer graded tests, and discussion forums. This article will give a basic overview of what MOOCs are, how they work, and some of their inherent advantages and disadvantages. It will also explore what MOOCs mean for medical education and libraries. A list of MOOC-related resources is also included.
MOOCs 101 An Introduction to Massive Open Online Courses.pdf. More...

In open online learning courses such as MOOCs, peer feedback has been regarded as a powerful method to give elaborated feedback on weekly assignments.
Yet motivating students to invest effort in peer feedback on top of existing work load is difficult. Students might give insufficient feedback or do not give feedback at all. Students’ hesitation to provide feedback might be related to the lack of visibility of spent effort during feedback provision.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and their impact on academic library services exploring the issues and challenges.pdf. More...

MOOC’s have attracted huge attention, and hype, for supporting massive enrollments and for being free. What has received less attention is the pedagogical aspects of MOOCs. How can MOOCs effectively teach thousands of students simultaneously?
INNOQUAL - International Journal for Innovation and Quality in Learning. More...

This discussion paper is an outline of the new field of digital agency and learning as scope to legal and normative aspects of e-Learning and their digitized ties. Rapid sophistication of open-source e-learning platforms are an opportunity for sociologists and digital engineers to examine new concepts of agency.
Digital Agency and the Sociological Imagination.pdf.  More...