Copying from the wonderful editorial accompanying this issue and which is written by Dianne Conrad:
Several topics emerged in this issue’s selection of articles. The first, in pieces from Canada, the UK, Korea, and Saudi Arabia, considers aspects of open and distributed learning on culture, learning, and knowledge. E.g. Hamdan from Saudi Arabia approaches her cultural study through the gender lens, considering the impact of ODL on female learners in that country.
A second topic, the increasingly popular open movement, is further explored by Mtebe and Raisamo as they look at African instructors’ use and adoption of OER. And from Katy Jordan comes a wide-ranging study that presents the results of a study that draws together MOOC enrolment and completion data from courses across the major MOOC platforms.
Thirdly, and not surprisingly in any ODL journal, South African, Balkan, Chinese, and Taiwanese researchers give us the results of their investigations into the use of specific distance learning tools.
Finally, reflecting our evolving field’s continuing interest in the critical issue of what constitutes effective teaching and learning at a distance, several writers offer their answers to that question from a variety of perspectives. One of the most popular approaches to “what works” over the years has been the measure of student satisfaction. The relationship of satisfaction to learning is, of course, its own topic, also often researched. With examples from Canada, Spain, Russia and China.
So from four continents, multiple researchers using a variety of methods ... this sure makes one perfect mid-week read.
The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
Vol 15, No 1 (2014)
Table of Contents
Editorial
| Editorial: Volume 15, Number 1 | HTML PDF MP3 EPUB |
| Dianne Conrad |
Research Articles
| Post-secondary distance education in a contemporary colonial context: Experiences of students in a rural First Nation in Canada | HTML PDFMP3 EPUB |
| Jesse Simon, Kevin Burton, Emily Lockhart, Susan O'Donnell |
| Roles and student identities in online large course forums: Implications for practice | HTML PDF MP3EPUB |
| Jacqueline Aundree Baxter, Jo Haycock |
| A cultural-historical activity theory investigation of contradictions in open and distance higher education among alienated adult learners in Korea National Open University | HTMLPDF MP3EPUB |
| K. P. Joo |
| Benchmarking the habits and behaviours of successful students: A case study of academic-business collaboration | HTML PDFMP3 EPUB |
| Elizabeth Archer, Yuraisha Bianca Chetty, Paul Prinsloo |
| Multi-country experience in delivering a joint course on software engineering – numerical results | HTML PDF MP3EPUB |
| Zoran Budimac, Zoran Putnik, Mirjana Ivanović, Klaus Bothe, Katerina Zdravkova, Boro Jakimovski |
| Initial trends in enrolment and completion of massive open online courses | HTML PDF MP3EPUB |
| Katy Jordan |
| A case study of integrating Interwise: Interaction, internet self-efficacy, and satisfaction in synchronous online learning environments | HTML PDFMP3 EPUB |
| Yu-Chun Kuo, Andrew E. Walker, Brian R. Belland, Kerstin E. E. Schroder, Yu-Tung Kuo |
| Student satisfaction with a web-based dissertation course: Findings from an international distance learning master's programme in public health | HTML PDFMP3 EPUB |
| Roger Harrison, Isla Gemmell, Katie Reed |
| Design and implementation of a simulation-based learning system for international trade | HTML PDF MP3EPUB |
| Guo-Heng Luo, Eric Zhi-Feng Liu, Hung-Wei Kuo, Shyan-Ming Yuan |
| How well do Canadian distance education students understand plagiarism? | HTML PDF MP3EPUB |
| Cheryl Ann Kier |
| Challenges and instructors’ intention to adopt and use open educational resources in higher education in Tanzania | HTML PDFMP3 EPUB |
| Joel Samson Mtebe, Roope Raisamo |
| Introducing a learning management system at a Russian university: Students' and teachers' perceptions | HTML PDFMP3 EPUB |
| Natalya Emelyanova, Elena Voronina |
| Rethinking dropout in online higher education: The case of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | HTML PDF MP3EPUB |
| Josep Grau-Valldosera, Julià Minguillón |
| The reciprocal and correlative relationship between learning culture and online education: A case from Saudi Arabia | HTML PDFMP3 EPUB |
| Amani K Hamdan |
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