Archive for the ‘Open Learning’ Category

Open Universities: the next phase

The purpose of this paper is to report on research on the views of Presidents and Vice Chancellors of Open Universities of current threats and opportunities for their institutions as the author marks the 50th anniversary of the first Open University in the UK established in 1969. The paper offers a historical account of the […]

Openness in Education: An Interview with Martin Weller

We continue our exploration of openness in education with an interview with Dr. Martin Weller, who is a Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University (UK) and the president of The Association for Learning Technology (ALT). Weller has been a prominent figure in the move toward opening up education and has published many articles […]

Information and communication technologies and students’ out-of-school learning experiences

The widespread availability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has generated new activity contexts that provide opportunities and resources for learning, at the same time as expanding the learning potential of traditional contexts such as the family and schools. Within this framework the present study analyses the frequency with which students of three ages (10, […]

Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy

The term “open pedagogy” has been used in a variety of different ways over the past several decades. In recent years, its use has also become associated with Open Educational Resources (OER). The wide range of competing definitions of open pedagogy, together with its semantic overlap with another underspecified term, open educational practices, makes it […]

A Comparison of Social Learning Systems: Crochet Alongs and MOOCs

Essentially social learning is a system where the learning occurs with and from others. Internet-based technologies have provided environments within which social learning can take place among very large groups covering various topics, ranging from academic to leisure. In general MOOCs are academic-related courses offered by educational institutions, following a model of formal education, however […]

Chasing the butterfly effect: Informal language learning online as a complex system

Evidence is accumulating that a major shift is underway in the ways that second language (L2) development is taking place. Increasingly, especially among young people, that process is occurring outside of institutional settings, predominately through the use of online networks and media. That phenomenon has been particularly noticed for learners of English, as shown in […]

With WhiteHat Seed Funding, Silicon Valley Remains Hungry for College Alternatives

WhiteHat, a U.K.-based startup, announced on Wednesday it had closed a $4 million seed round to expand their quality apprenticeship-based education, which serves as an alternative to university. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round and were joined by Village Global, ShopTalk, and others. ELEARNING INSIDE

New audio-only agMOOC for farmers launched

COL and agMOOC partners, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) and the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Raichur have launched a massive open online course (MOOC) for rice and cotton farmers in Karnataka, India. Over 4,000 farmers have enrolled in this course which started on 10 August 2018 and will run for 16 weeks. Commonwealth […]

Exploring Information Seeking Behavior of Farmers’ in Information Related to Climate Change Adaptation Through ICT (CHAI)

In Tanzania, agriculture sector is known for employing more than 70% of the total population. Agriculture sector faces many challenges including climate change. Climate change causes low productivity in agriculture; low productivity is caused due to poor implementation of agricultural policies and strategies. This poor implementation of policies has also caused many farmers to be […]

Transforming and empowering higher education through Open and Distance Learning in India

Higher education should bring up the multifaceted development of human resources by promoting the knowledge-enabled population that will bring socio-economic mobility, peace and progress in society. Thus, the educational providers must undertake the duty to impart need-based higher education that makes people educated with a progressive, rational, analytical, and skilful mind. Hence, there is an […]