From Open Resources to Educational Opportunity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight some of the educational opportunity presented by MIT's current information technology-enabled educational agenda and related initiatives, along with their strategic underpinnings and implications.
Abstract: Since MIT’s bold announcement of the OpenCourseWare initiative in 2001, the content of over 700 of its courses have been published on the Web and made available for free to the world. Important infrastructure initiatives have also been launched recently with a view to enabling the sustainable implementation of these educational programmes, through strengthening organizational capacity as well as through building open, standards-based technology. Each of these initiatives point to a rich palette of transformational possibilities for education; together with the growing open source movement, they offer glimpses of a sustainable ecology of substantial and quality educational resources. This discussion piece will highlight some of the educational opportunity presented by MIT’s current information technology-enabled educational agenda and related initiatives, along with their strategic underpinnings and implications. It will address various dimensions of their impact on the form and function of education. It will examine how these ambitious programmes achieve a vision characterized by an abundance of sustainable, transformative educational opportunities, not merely pervasive technology. DOI: 10.1080/09687760500376512
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the digital native pre-service teachers' perceptions of their competency, attitude, and pedagogical intention to use free and open source tools (FOSTs) in their future teaching.
Abstract: This study examines the digital native pre-service teachers’ (DNPSTs) perceptions of their competency, attitude, and pedagogical intention to use free and open source tools (FOSTs) in their future teaching. Participants were 294 PSTs who responded to pre-course surveys at the beginning of an educational technology course. Using the structural equation modeling, the data obtained from the Likert-type questionnaire were analyzed. Results showed that computer competency was a significant predictor of attitude toward using technology. Although PSTs scored high on their computer competency, this did not mean that they have strong stances towards using FOSTs in the classroom. However, the more skilled PSTs with FOSTs, the possibilities of using FOSTs in the classroom were higher. The results also suggested that DNPST’s attitude toward using technology was a significant determinant of their attitude toward using FOSTs.
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...Technology self-efficacy beliefs and attitudes are considered to be even more important when teachers have to use new and emerging technologies such as free and open source tools (Kumar, 2005; Pan & Bonk, 2007; Pfaffman, 2008; van Rooij, 2009), Web 2....
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...…beliefs and attitudes are considered to be even more important when teachers have to use new and emerging technologies such as free and open source tools (Kumar, 2005; Pan & Bonk, 2007; Pfaffman, 2008; van Rooij, 2009), Web 2.0 (Greenhow, Robelia, & Hughes, 2009; O’Reilly, 2005) and social media....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the findings of several of the keynote speakers and presenters within the context of the relationship between technology, practice and innovation, and draw conclusions about how well the learning technology community is achieving appropriate balance between innovation and technology.
Abstract: The paper explores some of the key themes and discussion points that were aired at the Association of Learning Technology conference in 2004. It discusses the findings of several of the keynote speakers and presenters within the context of the relationship between technology, practice and innovation. It references the papers presented in the technology infrastructure and new technology strands of the conference to examine whether educational technology currently has an appropriate balance between innovation and good practice. It then presents a case study of application in practice through some of the development activities that a national funding body, the JISC, has put into place. Finally, it draws conclusions about how well the learning technology community is achieving appropriate balance between innovation and technology. DOI: 10.1080/09687760500376496
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...Kumar reached the conclusion that we should not simply innovate for the sake of it but in order to offer an improved or even an extended and better experience: ‘Technology doesn’t just allow students to answers questions more quickly, but to ask new questions’ (Kumar, 2004)....
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...It may seem a challenging question to ask at a conference that is focused on technology, but from the opening keynote we were asked indirectly to focus upon the question: ‘why innovate?’ (Kumar, 2004)....
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30 Jun 2021
TL;DR: In this article, a study of 300 research scholars from 22 state universities in Tamilnadu state is performed by using a survey approach from 17/10/2020 and 26/12/2020.
Abstract: The new education system emphasizes the online based teaching-learning approaches. In particular, all the learners want to secure, open, affordable, and normal educational services. The open educational tools fulfill all the educational related problems to the learners. The study's key objective is to figure out the level of use of accessible educational services and find out the level of excellence in education among the state universities of Tamilnadu research scholars. A selection of 300 research scholars from 22 state universities in Tamilnadu state is chosen randomly for the study. The thesis was performed by using a survey approach from 17/10/2020 and 26/12/2020. Data is evaluated using percentage analysis and t-test. Findings show that 30 percent of the state universities research scholars have a high level of accessible educational opportunities and 24 percent of them have a high level of excellence in college. Results also suggest a substantial gap in the use of accessible educational services by male and female state universities research scholars. There is no substantial gap in education performance among male and female state universities research scholars concerning gender. The COVID-19 outbreak and paralysis also criticized the schooling of migrant workers and their children. Open educational opportunities are a viable school infrastructure in the future, including in a virus epidemic, storm, hurricane, world war, etc.
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25 Nov 2008
TL;DR: This paper describes the development and use of light-emitting diodes in the operation of magnetism and their applications in the coal industry.
Abstract: ........................................................................................................................................ II ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................................................. IV PREFACE.............................................................................................................................................V CONTRIBUTIONS................................................................................................................................. V MOTIVATION..................................................................................................................................... VI AVAILABILITY................................................................................................................................... VI LICENSING......................................................................................................................................... VI CONTENTS.....................................................................................................................................VIII LIST OF FIGURES .............................................................................................................................X LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................................. XI
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...I believe that having a one-stop homogeneous repository of high-quality, multi disciplinary, vast and free learning resources, such as MIT’s OpenCourseWare can benefit a large number of people [15]....
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the interests, opinions, and thoughts about OER movement and its suitability for elementary education by involving educators from developing nations, and conclude with recommendations for future OER projects to be implemented in the developing world.
Abstract: This thesis starts by introducing Open Educational Resources and ponders searching the decade long history for factors which has made OER a success in some countries and trivial impact in most developing nations. The aim of the thesis is to learn from the success stories of OER movement in the developed nations and to see if that can be replicated in developing nations. The main purpose of this study is to examine the interests, opinions, and thoughts about OER movement and its suitability for elementary education by involving educators from developing nations. The study's perspective has been to design a short open online course on Wikiversity for educators (primarily targeted towards K-12) from developing nations, which will introduce them to OER movement and record their experience. This online course has followed the action research guidelines and adhered to unobtrusive data collection methods. The participants from different nations were asked to create their own blog/group community blog to submit their comments, assignments, and recommendations to make OER a success in their geographic area. The records collected from the participants were interpreted and analyzed to learn the trends and themes to conclude with recommendations for future OER projects to be implemented in the developing world. The data collected are interpreted in a narrative manner and then evaluated to see if the participants have gained knowledge from the open online course and to recommend for further improvements in OER in developing nations based on the findings from the open online course. Essential issues in this thesis are to examine the motivation level of K-12 educators from the developing world towards OER adoption, and to provide valuable recommendations to future researchers of OER implementation in the developing world. The result of the thesis talks about nurturing collaborative spirit among the K-12 stakeholders from the developing world. This collaborative effort could fuel the OER adoption further and help improve the quality of elementary education in the global south.
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...The main lesson from this article is to ensure that quality educational contents are being created in MIT and other similar OER projects and to ensure that quality tools are being produced by innovative uses of educational technology (Kumar, 2005) ....
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...The author talks about the educational promise and strategic underpinnings of OER and how MIT decided to exploit the internet which eventually led to the strategizing to promote innovative teaching and learning, as well as creation of educational commons (Kumar, 2005)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors advocate an open-source framework for learning management systems and other educational technologies, which they call Learning Management System (LMS) for Learning Management Systems.
Abstract: The authors advocate an open-source framework for learning management systems and other educational technologies
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