Grégoire, Robert and European Association for Distance Teaching Universities [corporate]

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Kalman, Yoram M.; Jansen, Darco; Goes-Daniels, Miriam; European Association for Distance Teaching Universities; HOME Project

Executive Summary This report details the responses of seven Israeli higher education institutions (HEIs) to survey questions about their MOOC offerings, and compares them to other European HEIs. The surveys show that ...

Match: higher education; mooc; mooc research; oer research

Barker, Jennifer; Jeffery, Ken; Jhangiani, Rajiv; Veletsianos, George

Since the launch of the BC Open Textbook Project in 2012, the adoption of open textbooks has steadily grown within public post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. An analysis of adoption records over a ...

Match: adoption; canada; higher education; north america

Wang, Shouhong; Wang, Hai

Open educational resources (OER) are growing over the past decade. While OER can make educational resources widely available to all students and educators for free, OER are still untried by the majority of instructors, ...

Match: adoption; canada; case study; north america

Cox, Glenda; Trotter, Henry; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Arinto, Patricia B.

The research presented here focuses on understanding the obstacles, opportunities and practices associated with Open Educational Resources (OER) adoption at three South African universities. It addresses the question: ...

Match: adoption; higher education

Allen, Elaine I.; Seaman, Jeff

Over three-quarters of K-12 districts have made at least one full-course curricula adoption decision over the past three years, with the need to meet changing standards driving most of these decisions, according to the ...

Match: adoption; oer research

The Boston Consulting Group

Since the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation began investing in open education resources in 2002, the field has grown significantly: the past decade has seen an influx of OER and increased awareness and ...

Match: adoption; higher education

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The idea behind OER is simple but powerful—educational materials made freely available on the Internet for anyone to use, distribute, and revise. These digital materials have the potential to give people everywhere ...

Match: adoption

Schuwer, Robert; Wild, Ulrike; Baas, Marjon; van Hees, Janina; et al.

MIT launched the global Open Educational Resources (OER) movement in 2001. The movement gained a major impetus in 2012 following the emergence of MOOCs: free online courses, often offered by leading research ...

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Correa, Alma; Perman, Amertah E.; Rivaldi, Matthew; Bulger, Stephanie R.; et al.

Due to the ongoing trend of increased higher education costs, state and federal strategies have been implemented in an effort to lower students' cost of college. One such strategy gaining nationwide attention is the ...

Match: adoption; higher education; north america

Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Arinto, Patricia B.

Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable ...

Match: adoption; higher education