{"title":"Supporting teachers through online professional development: a small-scale qualitative study with teachers in Bangladesh","authors":"Rumana Rafique","doi":"10.1080/02680513.2024.2316629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2024.2316629","url":null,"abstract":"The sudden transition to online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic compelled teachers worldwide to develop the skills necessary to contend with online education and execute effectiv...","PeriodicalId":501540,"journal":{"name":"Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139772837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Arab strategy for distance education: a review of the ALECSO 2005 proposal and its current implications","authors":"Mohammed Ali K. Al-Belushi, Nawal Ahmed Al-Hooti","doi":"10.1080/02680513.2024.2316634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2024.2316634","url":null,"abstract":"The global knowledge, technological, and communication revolutions underway today have affected education systems in the Arab world and prompted these countries to reconsider strategies and policie...","PeriodicalId":501540,"journal":{"name":"Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139762546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fabio Nascimbeni, Daniel Burgos, James Brunton, Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
{"title":"A competence framework for educators to boost open educational practices in higher education","authors":"Fabio Nascimbeni, Daniel Burgos, James Brunton, Ulf-Daniel Ehlers","doi":"10.1080/02680513.2024.2310538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2024.2310538","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the recognition of the benefits that can be achieved through the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and, more broadly, Open Educational Practices (OEP), there has been little research ...","PeriodicalId":501540,"journal":{"name":"Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139762834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adult learning and open educational resources","authors":"Sarah LeMire","doi":"10.1080/02680513.2024.2311768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2024.2311768","url":null,"abstract":"Open Educational Resources, or OER, are increasingly popular in higher education. Within the USA, and globally, more faculty are embracing these open access textbooks as a way to save their student...","PeriodicalId":501540,"journal":{"name":"Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning","volume":"143 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139762536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shobana R Dissanayeke, Rebecca Lewis, Siobhan Swindells
{"title":"Designing an innovative digital group work assignment to foster employability: an adaptable hybrid approach for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond","authors":"Shobana R Dissanayeke, Rebecca Lewis, Siobhan Swindells","doi":"10.1080/02680513.2024.2307623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2024.2307623","url":null,"abstract":"A strategic priority for university educators is to ensure graduates have developed a range of transferable skills. An important skill required by employers is the development of digital capabiliti...","PeriodicalId":501540,"journal":{"name":"Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139589335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation from necessity: digital technologies, teacher development and reciprocity with organisational innovation","authors":"Howard Scott, Matthew Smith","doi":"10.1080/02680513.2024.2307627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2024.2307627","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines how digital technologies support innovation in teaching and learning the English language across Palestinian Higher Education Institutes. A European project collaborated to buil...","PeriodicalId":501540,"journal":{"name":"Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139551562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Webinars for teacher professional development: perceptions of members of a virtual professional community of practice","authors":"Tarek Shal, Norma Ghamrawi, Najah A. R. Ghamrawi","doi":"10.1080/02680513.2023.2296645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2023.2296645","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the significance of webinars as tools for supporting teachers’ professional development and growth beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, as perceived by the teachers themselves. The stu...","PeriodicalId":501540,"journal":{"name":"Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139469722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation and adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Denise Whitelock","doi":"10.1080/02680513.2023.2293696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2023.2293696","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":501540,"journal":{"name":"Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138824993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A distributed perspective to the community-of-inquiry framework for distance education","authors":"Piera Biccard","doi":"10.1080/02680513.2022.2114826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2022.2114826","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>ABSTRACT</b></p><p>This conceptual paper sets out the community-of-inquiry framework from a distributed perspective. It proposes that considering teaching presence, social presence and cognitive presence from a distributed perspective allows the broadening of the presences to consider the way in which participants, content and tools maintain and advance these presences. Distance education is problematic since the separation of instructor and student necessitates a change of pedagogy. The paper argues that by distributing the typical silos of ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’, more flexible opportunities are enabled. The distribution of the three presences across participants, content and tools is proposed as one way of mitigating distances in distance education. It is recommended that the proposed model be subject to empirical research to ascertain the usefulness of the model in practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":501540,"journal":{"name":"Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138544110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victoria Nicholas, Mark Hirst, Sarah Chyriwsky, Grahame Danby
{"title":"Multidisciplinary team working in science distance learning","authors":"Victoria Nicholas, Mark Hirst, Sarah Chyriwsky, Grahame Danby","doi":"10.1080/02680513.2022.2093633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2022.2093633","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>ABSTRACT</b></p><p>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 improved the team working experience. The principal source of data was in the form of reflective materials embedded in the module’s final assessment. A two-stage thematic analysis of student reflective narrative texts was performed to draw conclusions about student perceptions of the online team project. In the context of activity levels among the student teams, consistent differences in the way in which team members reflected upon their team working experience were apparent in three of the themes considered: participation, relationships and organisation. We provide a core checklist of actions that can be taken, by students and tutors, to enhance and improve the online collaborative experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":501540,"journal":{"name":"Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138544109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}