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Direct linkMark Nichols – Open Learning, 2024
Learning analytics promise significant benefit to online education providers through improved, better-targeted student services. Much has been written about the potential of analytics and how they might be technically implemented, and various ethical considerations are published highlighting the significant potential risk of gathering,…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Ethics, Guidelines, Policy Formation
Victoria Nicholas; Mark Hirst; Sarah Chyriwsky; Grahame Danby – Open Learning, 2025
We describe findings from a study based upon a collaborative project carried out online as the end of module assessment activity of a multidisciplinary science module at the UK Open University. Our aim was to determine how well students dealt with working in a team of unfamiliar multidisciplinary scientists and to identify tools and processes that…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education, Higher Education
Md. Aktaruzzaman; Margaret Plunkett – Open Learning, 2025
Offering education by distance provides an important sociological tool for equalising opportunities in developed nations. However, for developing nations and more particularly some of the least-developed countries in the world, it has the potential to play a much larger role in providing both basic and advanced educational opportunities and,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Access to Education, Cultural Differences
Katrine Sharp Rogers; Claudi Thomas; Hilary Holmes – Open Learning, 2024
Active learning in mathematics can lead to deeper understanding than passively listening to a lecture, yet recent studies indicate that didactic teaching dominates online tutorials. This study investigated student participation in three types of activity: solving mathematical problems via polling, on-screen activities on a shared whiteboard and…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Active Learning, Mathematics Activities, Synchronous Communication
