By Carl Straumsheim. The University System of New Hampshire is launching a yearlong open education initiative to promote affordable textbooks, collaboration and open-access publishing. Read more...
26 juin 2016
26 juin 2016
'Open Source' Employee Training
By Carl Straumsheim. As more companies expand tuition assistance benefits, Amazon says its model -- which focuses on "high-demand" fields -- is the one they should follow. Read more...
26 juin 2016
Scaling Up OER
By Carl Straumsheim. New initiatives at university systems show the maturation of efforts to increase the use of open educational resources. Read more...
25 juin 2016
The Quiet and Careful Revolution of OER
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. It has the capacity to revolutionize the generally accepted model of higher education along with the entire way students learn. It could be one of the most significant advances in teaching since the blackboard, yet few fully understand it and even fewer know how they might apply it. More...
14 juin 2016
Safe and Open Higher Education conference, 20 June, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Under the title “Safe and Open Higher Education”, the conference will serve as a follow-up to the Paris Declaration. Participants will discuss which further efforts are necessary for safe and open higher education institutions and present concrete actions and tools. During the event, a common position on safety and security will be presented and discussed from a European perspective. More...
7 juin 2016
Université d’été du développement de logiciel libre et open source du 6 au 8 juillet à Digne-les-Bains
Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. L’Université d’été du développement de logiciel libre et open source {UDOS}, se déroulera du 6 au 8 juillet à Digne-les-Bains, dans les Alpes de Haut-Provence. Suite...
3 juin 2016
Diffusion of Innovations Approach to the Evaluation of Learning Management System Usage in an Open Distance Learning Institution
Academic institutions such as the University of South Africa (Unisa) are using information and communication technology (ICT) in order to conduct their daily primary operations, which are teaching and learning. Unisa is the only distance learning university in South Africa and also in Africa. Unisa currently has the highest number of students on the continent of Africa. More...
3 juin 2016
Identifying Tensions in the Use of Open Licenses in OER Repositories
We present an analysis of 50 repositories for educational content conducted through an "audit system" that helped us classify these repositories, their software systems, promoters, and how they communicated their licensing practices. We randomly accessed five resources from each repository to investigate the alignment of licensing information between the resources themselves, metadata pages and overall site policies. More...
2 juin 2016
IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) - Vol 17, No 3 (2016)
Table of Contents
Editorial
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Editorial - Volume 17, Issue Number 3
Dianne Conrad
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Research Articles
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Mete Akcaoglu, Eunbae Lee
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Amanda Rockinson-Szapkiw, Jillian Wendt, Mervyn Whighting, Deanna Nisbet
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Stefan Stenbom, Malin Jansson, Annelie Hulkko
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Sunnie Lee Watson, William R Watson, Jennifer Richardson, Jamie Loizzo
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Engin Kursun
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Johan Loeckx
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Tel Amiel, Tiago Chagas Soares
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Betul Czerkawski
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Colin Madland, Griff Richards
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Yin Zhang, Samuel Chu
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Hajar Ghadirian, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd Ayub, Kamariah Binti Abu Bakar, Maryam Hassanzadeh
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Omid Noroozi, Simon McAlister, Martin Mulder
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Jered Borup
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Michael Corry
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Cathy Cavanaugh, Jace Hargis, John Mayberry
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Harun Cigdem, Mustafa Ozturk
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Peter Mkhize, Emmanuel Samuel Mtsweni, Portia Buthelezi
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Zamzami Zainuddin, Siti Hajar Halili
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George Lukoye Makokha, Dorothy Nduko Mutisya
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Naghmeh Aghaee, William Byron Jobe, Thashmee Karunaratne, Åsa Smedberg, Henrik Hansson, Matti Tedre
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Book Notes
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Doing Q Methodological Research: Theory, Method and Interpretation
Liwen Chen
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