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    • Accessibility within open educational resources and practices for disabled learners: a systematic literature review 

      Zhang, Xiangling; Tlili, Ahmed; Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Burgos, Daniel ; Huang, Ronghuai; Chang, Ting-Wen; Jemni, Mohamed; Khribi, Mohamed Koutheaïr (Smart Learning Environments, 12/2020)
      The number of disabled students is rapidly increasing worldwide, but many schools and universities have failed to keep up with their learning needs. Consequently, large numbers of disabled students are dropping out of ...
    • Are MOOCs Open Educational Resources? A literature review on history, definitions and typologies of OER and MOOCs 

      Stracke, Christian M.; Downes, Stephen; Conole, Grainne; Burgos, Daniel; Nascimbeni, Fabio (Open Praxis, 10/2019)
      Open Education gained more visibility as a result of the emergence of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This article discusses whether MOOCs should be considered as OER. Open Education ...
    • Becoming an open educator: towards an open threshold framework 

      Tur, Gemma; Havemann, Leo; Marsh, Dawn; Keefer, Jeffrey M.; Nascimbeni, Fabio (Research in Learning Technology, 2020)
      In this article, we propose a cross-pollination of two prominent lines of educational thought: open education (OE) and threshold concepts (TCs). Open education has gained an increased profile through the growing popularity ...
    • Building capacity of university educators to work with open practices beyond OER: a case study 

      Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Burgos, Daniel (12th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), 2018)
      Adopting open practices in higher education bears the potential to increase quality, access and effectiveness of the educational offer of universities, as well as to improve their impact on society and reputation. Because ...
    • Digital Libraries in Open Education: The Italy Case 

      Tammaro, Anna Maria; Ciancio, Laura; de Rosa, Rosanna; Pantò, Eleonora; Nascimbeni, Fabio (Communications in Computer and Information Science, IRCDL 2017, 2017)
      Open Education strategies, and specifically MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) and OER (Open Educational Resources), play an important role in supporting policies for educational innovation, lifelong learning, and, more ...
    • Disrupted classes, undisrupted learning during COVID-19 outbreak in China: application of open educational practices and resources 

      Huang, Ronghuai; Tlili, Ahmed; Chang, Ting-Wen; Zhang, Xiangling; Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Burgos, Daniel (Smart Learning Environments, 01/12/2020)
      With the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in China, the Chinese government decided to ban any type of face-to-face teaching, disrupting classes and resulting in over 270 million students being unable to return to their ...
    • Empowering University Educators for Contemporary Open and Networked Teaching 

      Nascimbeni, Fabio (Radical Solutions and Open Science. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2020)
      The chapter explores the competences that university educators should master in our increasingly digital, open and connected societies in order to fill their role effectively and responsibly. Starting from a brief analysis ...
    • Exploring intercultural learning through a blended course about open education practices across the Mediterranean 

      Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Burgos, Daniel ; Aceto, Stefania ; Wimpenny, Katherine; Maya, Isidro; Stefanelli, Cristina (IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON, 2018)
      This paper presents and reflects upon the training course organized by the OpenMed project, aimed at building capacity in Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Education approaches across universities from the South ...
    • Fostering Openness in Education: Considerations for Sustainable Policy-Making 

      Atenas, Javiera; Havemann, Leo; Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Villar-Onrubia, Daniel; Orlic, Davor (Open Praxis, 04/2019)
      This paper reviews a framework to support the co-creation of policies to sustainably foster Open Education. The framework has been derived from a comprehensive review of public and Open Education policy documents and related ...
    • Fostering Teachers-Led Open Education in Universities: Recommendations Emerging from Research 

      Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Burgos, Daniel ; Tlili, Ahmed (2019 7th International Conference on ICT and Accessibility, ICTA 2019, 12/2019)
      The paper presents some recommendations on how to foster the adoption of open education practices within universities starting from the capacities and challenges of university educators, based on the central role that ...
    • Impact of personality on educator attitudes towards open educational resources 

      Tlili, Ahmed; Burgos, Daniel; Stracke, Christian M.; Mason, Jon; Denden, Mouna; Altinay, Fahriye; Nascimbeni, Fabio (Knowledge Management and E-Learning, 2022)
      The emergence of open educational resources (OER) represents one of the most significant educational developments in the 21st century. Given their capacity to be freely adapted, re-used, and shared in different contexts, ...
    • In Search for the Open Educator: Proposal of a Definition and a Framework to Increase Openness Adoption Among University Educators 

      Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Burgos, Daniel (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 12/2016)
      The paper explores the change process that university teachers need to go through in order to become fluent with Open Education approaches. Based on a literature review and a set of interviews with a number of leading ...
    • Institutional mapping of open educational practices beyond use of Open Educational Resources 

      Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Burgos, Daniel ; Campbell, Lorna M.; Tabacco, Anita (Distance Education, 2018)
      Many initiatives exist to increase the adoption of open educational practices (OEP) within universities, but few initiatives start by exploring the capacity of educators to adopt open approaches. This paper addresses this ...
    • Open educational resources and practices in China: a systematic literature review 

      Tlili, Ahmed; Huang, Ronghuai; Chang, Ting-Wen; Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Burgos, Daniel (Sustainability, 09/09/2019)
      The concepts of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP), regarded as two pillars of the broader open education movement, have been evolving since the concept of OER was first coined in the ...
    • Open Educational Resources in Italy: Connecting the Macro, Meso and Micro Levels, Towards a National OER Ecosystem 

      Nascimbeni, Fabio (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2020)
      The chapter presents a snapshot of the state of the art of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Italy. It starts from the macro public policy level, noting that OER are part of the national school policy, to the advocacy ...
    • Open Teaching: research and practice on open, innovative and engaging pedagogies 

      Nascimbeni, Fabio (Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 12/2020)
      I-WhenUNESCOintroducedtheOERconceptandacoupleofyearslatertheOECDsuggestedtogiveknowledgeawayforfree(OECD,2007),we,asopeneducators,believedthatthiswastheavalanchewhichwehadbeenwaitingforandwhichwehadbeenexpectedtoarrivefo ...
    • Openness in Education as a Praxis: From Individual Testimonials to Collective Voices 

      Bozkurt, Aras; Gjelsvik, Torunn; Adam, Taskeen; Asino, Tutaleni I.; Atenas, Javiera; Bali, Maha; Blomgren, Constance; Bond, Melissa; Bonk, Curtis J.; Brown, Mark; Burgos, Daniel; Conrad, Dianne; Costello, Eamon; Cronin, Catherine; Czerniewicz, Laura; Deepwell, Maren; Deimann, Markus; DeWaard, Helen J.; Dousay, Tonia A.; Ebner, Martin; Farrow, Robert; Gil-Jaurena, Inés; Havemann, Leo; Inamorato, Andreia; Irvine, Valerie; Karunanayaka, Shironica P.; Kerres, Michael; Lambert, Sarah; Lee, Kyungmee; Makoe, Mpine; Marín, Victoria I.; Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Mishra, Sanjaya; Naidu, Som; Nascimbeni, Fabio; Nichols, Mark; Don Jr., Olcott; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Otto, Daniel; Padilla Rodriguez, Brenda Cecilia; Paskevicius, Michael; Roberts, Verena; Saleem, Tooba; Schuwer, Robert; Sharma, Ramesh C.; Stewart, Bonnie; Stracke, Christian M.; Tait, Alan; Tlili, Ahmed; Ubachs, George; Weidlich, Joshua; Weller, Martin; Xiao, Junhong; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf (Open Praxis, 2023)
      Why is Openness in Education important, and why is it critically needed at this moment? As manifested in our guiding question, the significance of Openness in Education and its immediate necessity form the heart of this ...
    • Patterns for higher education international cooperation fostered by Open Educational Resources 

      Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Burgos, Daniel ; Spina, Edison; Simonette, Marcel Jaques (Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020)
      The paper explores the extent to which the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) can enhance international partnerships among universities. In order to validate the hypothesis that the use of OER can positively contribute ...
    • Promoting Open Education through Gamification in Higher Education: The OpenGame project 

      García-Holgado, Alicia; García-Peñalvo, Francisco; de la Higuera, Colin; Teixeira, Antonio; Ehlers, Ulf-Daniel; Brunton, James; Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Padilla-Zea, Natalia ; Burgos, Daniel (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2020)
      Open education enables the transformation of higher education institutions to increase access to and quality of education, which is directly connected with the fourth sustainable development goal defined by UNESCO. Despite ...
    • Read, Watch, Do: Developing Digital Competence for University Educators 

      Nascimbeni, Fabio ; Alonso, Joaquín ; Sanz, Olga ; Burgos, Daniel (Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2019)
      The paper presents and discusses the pilot experience of the EduHack course as it was developed in Spain by the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) in the first half of 2019. The EduHack course is proposing an ...