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Faiza Gani; Geesje Van Den Berg – Open Praxis, 2024
Distance education institutions worldwide are adopting online learning to take advantage of its benefits. However, online learning is often seen as a mode of delivery that will work for any distance education institution in any context. The increased relevance of online learning during and after the COVID-19 pandemic has further exaggerated the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Open Education, Electronic Learning, COVID-19
From Open Education to Open Learning: The Experience at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Larisa Enríquez-Vázquez; Myrna Hernández-Gutiérrez – Distance Education, 2023
Open education has existed for more than 6 decades. In its beginnings, it consisted of removing various controls that made it difficult for students to enter and remain in the educational system. Today, it involves characteristics such as accessibility, flexibility, and adaptability, in environments beyond academics. The student-centered teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Open Universities, Access to Education
Holmes, Wayne; Iniesto, Francisco; Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Boticario, Jesus G. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2023
Increasingly, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having an impact on distance-based higher education, where it is revealing multiple ethical issues. However, to date, there has been limited research addressing the perspectives of key stakeholders about these developments. The study presented in this paper sought to address this gap by investigating…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Distance Education, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Apostolidou, Anna – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2023
The article illustrates the potential of engaged arts-based pedagogies in higher education with respect to integration interventions for young refugees in Europe. It discusses the conception and implementation of the collaborative initiative "Find Refuge in Art", which was part of the research Project PRESS at the Hellenic Open…
Descriptors: Artists, Cooperation, Cultural Awareness, Justice
Arjan J. F. Kok; Lex Bijlsma; Cornelis Huizing; Ruurd Kuiper; Harrie Passier – Informatics in Education, 2024
This paper presents the first experiences of the use of an online open-source repository with programming exercises. The repository is independent of any specific teaching approach. Students can search for and select an exercise that trains the programming concepts that they want to train and that only uses the programming concepts they already…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Computer Science Education, Open Source Technology, Teaching Methods
Martin, Anne; Rautiainen, Anne Mari; Tarnanen, Mirja; Tynjälä, Päivi – Teacher Development, 2022
The authors explored five in-service teachers' experiences of professional development (PD) in Studies in Writing (30 ECTS programme at a Finnish open university) they participated in during their leisure time. Data consist of the teachers' creative writings and semi-structured interviews. Reflexive thematic analysis was employed to holistically…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Writing Research, Creative Writing
Zendrato, Rotua; Chang, Ben; Cheng, Hercy – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023
Indonesian workers in Taiwan have been taking synchronous online courses to enhance their education for several years. Still, the most crucial part of a synchronous course, the interaction quality, in the past, in general, was highly disturbed by the workers' busy daily work and had room to improve. Therefore, improving online interaction quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Workers, Electronic Learning, Open Universities, Action Research
Olivier, Jako – Commonwealth of Learning, 2023
This report provides an overview of the nature of open universities derived from the responses from 28 open universities in the Commonwealth. The data not only provide a snapshot of the nature of OUs, but also show some evidence of the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on open universities where institutions had to move all their learning and…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Learning Management Systems, Program Descriptions, Teaching Methods
Araka, Eric; Oboko, Robert; Maina, Elizaphan; Gitonga, Rhoda – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
With the increased emphasis on the benefits of self-regulated learning (SRL), it is important to make use of the huge amounts of educational data generated from online learning environments to identify the appropriate educational data mining (EDM) techniques that can help explore and understand online learners' behavioral patterns. Understanding…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Metacognition, Comparative Analysis, Behavior Patterns
Prinsloo, Paul, Ed.; Slade, Sharon, Ed.; Khalil, Mohammad, Ed. – SpringerBriefs in Open and Distance Education, 2022
This book explores and further expands on the rich history of theoretical and empirical research in open and distributed learning, and addresses the impact of the "data revolution" and the emergence of learning analytics on this increasingly diverse form of educational delivery. Following an introductory chapter that maps the book's…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Distance Education, Futures (of Society), Teaching Methods
Niari, Maria – Journal of Learning for Development, 2021
The purpose of this small-scale qualitative research study was to examine the use and perceived value of integrating collaborative learning techniques at teleconferences at the Hellenic Open University (HOU). Qualitative semi-structure interviews with tutors from the School of Humanities at the HOU were conducted in order for the research plan to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Teaching Methods
Jamal, Bakht; Rizvi, Syed Asad Abbas; Kayani, Muhammad Munir – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2021
This research study was designed to explore the teaching-learning approaches to distance education and measuring students' learning perceptions. Using the multi-stage sampling technique, eight hundred and two (802) students of the Master of Arts in a distance education university were taken using the universal sampling. Data were collected through…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Innovation, Electronic Learning, Integrated Learning Systems
Olatunji, Taiwo Isaac; Adebisi, Tajudeen Adewumi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
This study examined the similarities and differences in the processes and facilities for distance education at National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), a single-mode distance learning institution, and Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, a dual-mode distance learning institution. The study adopted a case study research design, with a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Distance Education, Open Universities
Badia, Antoni; Becerril, Lorena; Gómez, Marta – Teacher Development, 2021
This study approaches teachers' identity development from a dialogical viewpoint, focusing on teachers' voices in a training course context about critical incidents (CIs) in teaching. The training course entailed the analysis and reflection of 15 CIs in online teaching from 12 online university teachers. The study's empirical element was 328…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Critical Incidents Method, Professional Identity, Online Courses
Al-husban, Naima Ahmad; Mashaleh, Majdi; Damrah, Laila – Curriculum and Teaching, 2022
This study aims to explore Arab Open University- Jordan (AOU) students' critical thinking skills, and whether these skills varied according to variables like their university level (first and fourth year of study), gender, age, and major at university. 248 students have been randomly chosen to participate in the study. California Critical Thinking…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Open Universities, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries
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