Month: August 2015

Brenda Mallinson & Greig Krull

This paper describes the authors’ experience of remixing two existing OER courses to provide an OER course for a particular purpose and context. The developing country target environment is stated … More

George Veletsianos

Although the open scholarship movement has successfully captured the attention and interest of higher education stakeholders, researchers currently lack an understanding of the degree to which open scholarship is enacted … More

Marcela Gmez Zermeo & Lorena Alemn de la Garza

Temoa is a distributor of knowledge that provides a multilingual public catalog of collections of Open Educational Resources (OER). Temoa seeks to support the educational community to find the resources … More

Jan Gondol & Nicole Allen

An exciting new avenue for establishing and expanding national commitments to open education has emerged through the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a multilateral initiative that aims to secure commitments from … More

Alexandra Okada, Peter Scott & Murilo Mendona

The challenging of assessing formal and informal online learning at scale includes various issues. Many universities who are now promoting “Massive Online Open Courses” (MOOC), for instance, focus on relatively … More

Ayesha Perveen

The paper critically evaluated the discursive practices on the Moderated Discussion Board (MDB) of Virtual University of Pakistan (VUP). The paramount objective of the study was to conduct a critical … More

Ins Gil-Jaurena

This issue of Open Praxis includes six papers presenting research or innovative practices in the field of open, distance and flexible education. More

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Antonia Diaz Reales & Ignacio Aguaded-Gmez

This paper examines the integration of Romanian immigrants in Lucena del Puerto (Huelva, Spain) through the life stories of two families of Romanian origin. The experiences of the groups presented … More

Antnia Dardes Mesquida & Adolfina Prez

Research project tutoring appears as a crucial element for teaching; it is a planned action based on the relationship between a tutor and a student. This paper presents the findings … More

J Callado Moreno, M Molina Jan, Eufrasio Prez Navo & Javier Rodrguez Moreno

Since Spain decided to embark on the development of inclusive schooling, studies have taken place to see if the inclusive principle is being developed satisfactorily. Inclusive schooling implies that all … More

Merc Cervera & Jos Cantabrana

La sociedad del s. XXI demanda sistemas educativos flexibles y con capacidad de adaptacin constante, capaces de hacer frente a las necesidades formativas, en forma de competencias, propias de un … More

Ana Capelo & Isabel Cabrita

Given that reforms involving how to deal with the past are extremely difficult, especially when the past involves memories of victimization, death, and destruction so widespread that a high percentage … More

Enric Mallorqu-Ruscalleda

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Linda Castaeda Quintero, Mara Romn Garca & Ramn Barlam Aspasch

This article presents a case study with the goal of becoming familiar with and understanding the incorporation of one virtual learning world –Espurnik- in a curricular diversification classroom with students … More

Janaina de Oliveira & Eliana Gallardo-Echenique

In this paper, we address the guidance of student teachers in initial training in schools as an invaluable opportunity to raise creative learning awareness. The objective of this present research … More

Mery Vega-Vaca & Christian Hederich-Martnez

This study is expected to determine the impact of a program based on the cooperative learning methodology. This, in comparison to a traditional learning situation in both mathematics and language … More

Olga Agudelo & Jesus Salinas Ibez

Se estudia el uso de itinerarios de aprendizaje basados en mapas conceptuales como una propuesta para un diseo instruccional ms flexible que potencie el aprendizaje y se centre en el … More

H.S. Kim, L. Prevost & P.P. Lemons

The understanding of core concepts and processes of science in solving problems is important to successful learning in biology. We have designed and developed a Web-based, self-directed tutorial program, , … More

Z. Katai

The research results we present in this paper reveal that properly calibrated e-learning tools have potential to effectively promote the algorithmic thinking of both science-oriented and humanities-oriented students. After students … More

Y‐H. Chen, S‐J. Jang & P‐J. Chen

Wiki bears great potential to transform learning and instruction by scaffolding personal and social constructivism. Past studies have shown that proper application of wiki benefits both students and teachers; however, … More

D. Hooshyar, R.B. Ahmad, M. Yousefi, F.D. Yusop & S.‐J. Horng

Intelligent tutoring and personalization are considered as the two most important factors in the research of learning systems and environments. An effective tool that can be used to improve problem-solving … More

K. De Witte, C. Haelermans & N. Rogge

Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) programs are considered as a way to improve learning outcomes of students. However, little is known on the schools who implement such programs as well as on … More

T. Jaakkola & K. Veermans

Contemporary evidence on the effectiveness of concrete and abstract representations in science education is based solely on studies conducted in college context. There it has been found that learning with … More

R. Kimmons

This study seeks to understand the relationship between K-12 online system adoption (e.g., Blackboard, Edmodo, WordPress) and school-level academic achievement ratings. Utilizing a novel approach to data collection via website … More

Christin Manning

Workers in the 21st century workplace are faced with rapid and constant developments that place a heavy demand on them to continually learn beyond what the Human Resources and Training … More

Thomas Hagenreiner, Grazia Engelmann & Peter Khler

Learning is a lifelong process, which may not end at the transition from school to work. To exploit modern software systems used in design engineering, in order to increase efficiency … More

Sivachandran Chandraseakaran, Guy Littlefair & Alex Stojcevski

The university-learning environment in engineering is not sufficient for students to become engineers. The practical role of engineering is working on real world problems in an industry environment. Industry-university collaboration … More

Norah Al-Malki, Abdul AbdulKarim & Fouad Shoie Alallah

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the degree of teaching staff’s and Students’ satisfaction with the teaching and learning experience via the Blackboard ™ Learning Management System (LMS), … More

Mikael Snaprud & Gerd Helmikstl

Using questions to elaborate knowledge, is widely used in learning today. In this position paper we argue that there are new benefits to reap from using ICT in a learning … More

Richard Evans, James Gao, Nick Martin & Clive Simmonds

Employee collaboration and knowledge sharing is vital for manufacturing organisations wishing to be successful in an ever-changing global market place; Product Development (PD) teams, in particular, rely heavily on these … More

David Foster

An innovative online approach to executive development is described. The approach utilizes asynchronous and synchronous elements, required submission of assignments, and other features resembling those of online college courses. Design … More

Kristen Giovanis

Creating effective global eLearning initiatives requires strategic planning and process development to avoid mistakes that can turn off global learners. In order to successfully implement a global training program in … More

Tsoghik Grigoryan

Predicting the future path of the digital classroom discourse is twofold. Today’s language classroom is undergoing an irreversible revolution and one of the most powerful drivers of this transformation is … More

Lindsay Galway, Barbara Berry & Timothy Takaro

The flipped classroom instructional model has emerged as an alternative to conventional lecture-based teaching that has dominated higher education for decades. In 2013, a cohort of graduate-level public health students … More

Amber Mazur, Barbara Brown & Michele Jacobsen

The flipped classroom is an instructional model that leverages technology-enhanced instruction outside of class time in order to maximize student engagement and learning during class time. As part of an … More

Dani Herro

This case uses a worked or “working example” model (Gee, 2010), documenting the implementation of a novel game design curriculum in the United States. Created by an Instructional Technology Administrator … More

Eve Paquette & Danielle-Claude Blanger

The use of driving simulators is an innovation for police training in Quebec. There are some issues related to their impact on training objectives. This article presents the results of … More