Woolcott, Geoff Bui, Vinh
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European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
The transition to fully online delivery in the COVID-19 pandemic has added to already existing and significant challenges in subjects and programs that require a component of practicum, on-site experience or hands-on laboratory work. This article presents initial results from a study that responds to challenges arising in moving to a fully online v...
Aslan, Cem Yalçın, Gülistan
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European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
This study investigates the views of students with visual impairments on distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research design of the study is qualitative research. The participants of the study include students with visual impairments. They are studying at different universities where distance education was offered in the fall semes...
Zimmermann, Maria Mayweg-Paus, Elisabeth Ruwe, Theresa Maine, Fiona
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European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
For teaching practice to be useful, educational materials must be thoroughly evaluated prior to use. In this study, teachers evaluated open educational resources (OER) created for a European Commission Horizon 2020 project called DIALLS (‘DIalogue and Argumentation for cultural Literacy Learning in Schools’). Considering research on how OER are eva...
Patel, Akash Addicott, Colleen Buelow, Janet
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European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
This study explored how online students perceived their instructors’ emotional intelligence (EI) and its impact on their learning engagement. Using eight EI behaviours of online instructors and a learning engagement instrument, 100 online university students were surveyed regarding their observation of those EI behaviours and their learning engagem...
Amrane-Cooper, Linda Hatzipanagos, Stylianos Tait, Alan
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European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
In 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic the higher education sector, in the United Kingdom and internationally, transitioned to online assessment, at a speed and scale which might have been unimaginable under normal circumstances. The priority in the sector was to ensure that fundamental principles of assessment, including integrity, were support...
Pokrzycka, Lidia
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European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
This article presents the teaching methods implemented in the course ‘Modern methods and techniques of teaching in higher education institutions’ for doctoral students of exact sciences in the Doctoral School of Maria Curie Sklodowska University who were not taught classes before and who originally were not very interested in another course. The e-...
Olcott, Don Jr. Arnold, Deborah Blaschke, Lisa Marie
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European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
This conceptual and descriptive study examines the critical issues, challenges and priorities for European higher education (HE) leaders, drawing upon the theory, practice and experience of leaders inside and outside the open and distance learning (ODL) field. Focussing on the emerging vantage points of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), global t...
Adomaitis, Irmantas Dauksiene, Estela Trepule, Elena
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European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
Interaction and collaboration are essential pillars of successful learning.. The study aimed to find out how school communities collaborated during the COVID-19 pandemic and to assess the importance of collaboration in addressing the challenges faced. The selection of eight schools was made in a targeted way, considering that the participating scho...
Nkulu-Ily, Yves Shabo
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European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
As some researchers predicted, online education is taking precedence over higher education worldwide. This work deals with this situation using three frameworks appropriate for the three concepts involved (i.e. technology, teacher and students). The literature was reviewed in the context of good-quality education and its relation to three distance-...
Le, Hoa Phuong Elen, Jan Cosemans, Anneleen
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European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
As online learning becomes a recurrent component of higher education, there have been growing interests in the interaction between students and educational resources within digital environments so as to understand and facilitate students’ initiative in managing those resources. The present study is an explorative inquiry into the relationships betw...
