24 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Rachid Benlamri, Fanny Klett
This special issue is dedicated to recent opportunities, trends, and expectations that the emergent number of institutions and governments, exploiting the open learning concept, face in designing and providing open education that is striving to shape the new environment for formal and informal education. The open…
Victor Lim, Lawrence Wee, Jessica Teo, Shannalyn Ng
This paper looks at the increasing popularity of Massive Open and Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Education Resources (OER) offered in Singapore. Despite being a relatively new phenomenon, the Singapore government has collaborated with different organisations to improve the quality and accessibility of MOOCs, and many…
Daksha Patel, Sally Parsley, Astrid Leck
Remaining relevant and keeping up with medical advances is a challenge, as access to high-quality education is inequitable and costly. The open education approach is designed to reduce restrictions to learning. Over the years, improvements in medical education have been linked with improved clinical practice, which has…
Samankumara Hettige, Eshani Dasanayaka, Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera
Background The use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Social Media (SM) for academic information seeking is common among undergraduates nowadays. There is limited data on OER and SM use for education in Sri Lanka. This study was aimed at evaluating the OER and SM use for education among the medical students at the…
Sean R Eddy
Sean Eddy reviews "Opening Up Education," a collection of essays that explores how leaders in the "open education movement" intend to exploit digital communications technology, develop innovative and freely redistributable educational methods and resources, and improve education on a global level.
Yu-Tung Kuo, Yu-Chun Kuo
The use of open educational resources (OERs) is on the rise in higher education. Open pedagogy, as a learner-centered approach, provides students with opportunities to create, design, or adapt openly licensed materials or resources. With the potential of open pedagogy to enhance student learning, this study…
Ludwig Bothmann, Sven Strickroth, Giuseppe Casalicchio, David Rügamer + 3 more
'David Rügamer' 'Marius Lindauer' 'Fabian Scheipl' 'Bernd Bischl'] Education should not be a privilege but a common good. It should be openly accessible to everyone, with as few barriers as possible; even more so for key technologies such as Machine Learning (ML) and Data Science (DS). Open Educational Resources (OER)…
Mokhtar Ben Henda
En septembre 2013, la Commission européenne a lancé l'initiative «Open Education Europa» dans le cadre du programme Opening Up Education afin d'offrir un accès unique à des ressources éducatives libres (REL) européennes. L'objectif principal du portail «Open Education Europa» est de fournir un accès à toutes les…
Ariel Cerda, Alejandro Aravena, Valentina Zapata, Anibal Arce + 20 more
Open Educational Resources (OER), freely accessible learning, teaching and research materials, have been proposed as key enabling tools to achieve inclusive knowledge societies and equitable access to education. Here, we describe novel OER consisting of low cost and locally produced public domain biological reagents…
Natalia Padilla-Zea, Daniel Burgos, Alicia García-Holgado, Francisco José García-Peñalvo + 4 more
Open Education (OE) opens up learning opportunities to, potentially, every person in the world. Additionally, it allows teachers, researchers, and practitioners to find, share, reuse, and improve existing resources under a dependable legal framework. Aiming to spread and foster the introduction of open policies in…
Pedro Russo, Edward Gomez, Thilina Heenatigala, Linda E. Strubbe
Hundreds of thousands of astronomy education activities exist, but their discoverability and quality is highly variable. The web platform for astronomy education activities, astroEDU, presented in this paper tries to solve these issues. Using the familiar peerreview workflow of scientific publications, astroEDU is…
Sahar Vahdati, Christoph Lange, Sören Auer
A vast amount of OpenCourseWare (OCW) is meanwhile being published online to make educational content accessible to larger audiences. The awareness of such courses among users and the popularity of systems providing such courses are increasing. However, from a subjective experience, OCW is frequently cursory, outdated…
Geert van Geest, Yann Haefliger, Monique Zahn-Zabal, Patricia M. Palagi
A wealth of excellent training materials on computational life sciences is scattered around the internet, but they can be hard to find. Many materials reside in public git repositories that are hosted on platforms such as GitHub and GitLab. Glittr.org aggregates and indexes such git repositories enabling users to find…
Lancelord Siphamandla Mncube, Maureen Tanner, Wallace Chigona
- Abstract: The use of open educational resources (OER) is gaining momentum in higher education institutions. This study sought to establish academics' perceptions and knowledge of OER for teaching and learning in an open distance e-learning (ODeL) university. The study also sought to establish how perceptions are…
Olena G. Glazunova, Mariya P. Shyshkina
The scientific and methodological background of creation and development of the university cloud-based learning and research environment is substantiated. The conceptual and terminology body of the cloud-based environment investigation is defined, the main features of such environment are revealed. The main…
B. B. Goldberg, D. Bruff, R. Greenler, K. Barnicle + 9 more
We report on a five-year initiative that has prepared thousands of future STEM faculty around the world to adopt evidence-based instructional practices by participating in two massive open online courses (MOOCs) and facilitated in-person learning communities. This novel combination of asynchronous online and…
Bárbara Rodrigues Cintra Armellini, Lara Nardi Baroni, Samantha Carvalho Maia Brito, Ana Carolina Ramos Moreno + 3 more
In 2013, the “Adopt a Bacterium” project was created, which originally proposed the use of the social network Facebook® as an educational tool to engage students in learning microbiology through personalized posts. However, the generational alignment dynamic presents contemporary challenges for educators. Given the…
Ginger Tsueng, Arun Kumar, Steven M. Nanis, Andrew I Su
Citizen science is an increasingly valuable tool for both scientists and educators. For researchers, citizen science is a means of more quickly investigating questions which would otherwise be time-consuming and costly to study. For educators, citizen science offers a means to engage students in actual research and…
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The increasing importance and predictive power of modern molecular modeling, driven by physics- and machine learning-based methods, necessitates a new collaborative architecture to replace the isolated, traditional model of software development. The traditional approach often led to redundant engineering effort, high…
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As the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) is expanding in the educational field, presenting significant implications for STEM disciplines, it is bringing opportunities to enhance how chemistry and chemical engineering are taught and learned. This perspective critically explores the…
Szu Szu Ling, Fabrice Saffre, Deborah L. Gater, Lilia Halim + 1 more
Computer quiz games are introduced to improve teaching and learning in a freshman engineering chemistry course in an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) environment. These quiz games are developed and implemented as a supplemental and augmentative tool to enhance traditionally delivered lectures. The paper shows an…
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Raman spectroscopy is an increasingly powerful and fast-growing analytical technique across diverse disciplines, from materials science and chemistry to biology and medicine, thanks to advances in Raman instrumentation and greatly supported by the flourishing of chemometrics and artificial intelligence (AI). However…
Ronald Marquez, Laura Tolosa, Ruben Gomez, Cesar Izaguirre + 3 more
The teaching-learning process in traditional university education uses strategies that position the student as a recipient of information conveyed by the teacher and conceptualized as knowledge. The reality in which we live, including the characteristics of new generational groups, requires the generation of training…
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Reinvigoration of electrochemical education is important for the support of decarbonised economies and net zero climate change targets. Here, explicit instruction and fuel cell engineering are used to exemplify electrochemical science as a platform for teaching a variety of interdisciplinary concepts while addressing…