• 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 ...
    • Bridges and mediation in higher distance education: Helmeto 2020 report 

      Agrati, Laura Sara; Burgos, Daniel ; Ducange, Pietro; Limone, Pierpaolo; Pecori, Riccardo; Perla, Loredana; Picerno, Pietro; Raviolo, Paolo; Stracke, Christian M. (MDPI AG, 2021)
      In this paper, we report the scientific experience of HELMeTO 2020, the second edition of the International Workshop on Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online, held virtually in Bari (Italy) in ...
    • Impact of COVID-19 on Formal Education: An International Review of Practices and Potentials of Open Education at a Distance 

      Stracke, Christian M.; Sharma, Ramesh Chander; Bozkurt, Aras; Burgos, Daniel; Cassafieres, Cécile Swiatek; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; Mason, Jon; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Shon, Jin Gon; Wan, Marian; Agbu, Jane-Frances Obiageli; Farrow, Robert; Karakaya, Oezlem; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Ramírez-Montoya, María Soledad; Conole, Grainne; Cox, Glenda; Truong, Vi (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022)
      In terms of scale, shock, and disenfranchisement, the disruption to formal education arising from COVID-19 has been unprecedented. Anecdotally, responses from teachers and educators around the world range from heightened ...
    • 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, ...
    • Instructional Quality and Learning Design of Massive Open Online Courses 

      Stracke, Christian M.; Burgos, Daniel; Tlili, Ahmed (Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education, 2023)
      This chapter analyzes the instructional quality and learning design of different categories of online courses and their history, with a special focus on massive open online courses (MOOCs). Online courses have a long ...
    • 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 ...
    • Preface 

      Burgos, Daniel; Ducange, Pietro; Picerno, Pietro; Stracke, Christian M.; Cimitile, Marta; Pecori, Ricardo; Raviolo, Paolo (Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2019)
      Editorial del libro "Communications in Computer and Information Science. vol. 1091"
    • Responding to the Initial Challenge of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of International Responses and Impact in School and Higher Education 

      Stracke, Christian M.; Burgos, Daniel ; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Bozkurt, Aras; Sharma, Ramesh Chander; Swiatek Cassafieres, Cecile; Inamorato dos Santos, Andreia; Mason, Jon; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Shon, Jin Gon; Wan, Marian; Obiageli Agbu, Jane-Frances; Farrow, Robert; Karakaya, Oezlem; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Ramirez-Montoya, Maria Soledad; Conole, Grainne; Cox, Glenda; Truong, Vi (Sustainability, 2022)
      This paper presents and analyses solutions where open education and open science were utilised to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education. The COVID-19 outbreak and associated lockdowns created huge challenges ...
    • Typologies of (Open) Online Courses and Their Dimensions, Characteristics and Relationships with Distributed Learning Ecosystems, Open Educational Resources, and Massive Open Online Courses 

      Burgos, Daniel; Stracke, Christian M.; Bozkurt, Aras (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2023)
      This chapter analyses the different typologies of online courses. First, we start with a reflection about the key terms of online learning, online courses, and distributed learning ecosystems (DLE). In our literature review, ...