How useful of OER as perceived by students, before and after the pandemic?

Opinion /

By Simon K.S. Cheung, Hong Kong Metropolitan University Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, teaching and learning practices have undergone various degrees of transformation to live with different social distancing requirements so caused. Not only in teaching strategies, instructional and content design, there are also changes in learning styles and habits, such as on the […]

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The Need For Scientific Journals to Contribute to Gender Equality

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By Elsa Corominas (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) “Gender equality” is understood to be the equality of rights, responsibilities and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys, and there is a “gender gap” when in any area there are systematic inequalities between women and men in terms of their levels of participation, access, rights,

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Sustainable development as universities’ social responsibility. Ideas for development

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By Martha Burkle In current discussions, the idea of promoting a sustainable university has become crucial in the development of policies that regulate students’ learning, the growth of the university itself, and its impact on the community in which it is inserted (Leal, 2019; Verhulst & Lambrechts, 2015; Nicolescu, 2018). UNESCO principles of development for the

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Call For Papers – EDEN 2023 Annual Conference hosted by National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL), Dublin City University, 18-20 June 2023

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The 2023 EDEN Conference is designed to explore the theme, “Yes we can!” – Digital Education for Better Futures. The event will take place in Dublin City University on 18-20 June, 2023. This theme focuses on the language of opportunity and challenges participants to dream big! While there are many big and small challenges that we can’t

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Collaboration and clustering in online learning – some thoughts on Han and Ellis (2021)

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By Conchúr Mac Lochlainn The word ‘collaboration’ is everywhere, and on everyone’s mind, as digital educators have grappled with new modalities of learning, during the COVID-19 pivot. Concerns over isolation, and its effects on wellbeing (Filho et al., 2021), have been well-documented, and the importance of collaborative learning as a means of alleviating this isolation

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