Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Kenyan Universities

Judith Pete; Fred Mulder; Jose Oliveira Neto

Open Praxis Vol. 9, No. 2 (Jun 29, 2017) pp. 173–194

In order to obtain a fair \u2018OER picture\u2019 for the Global South a large-scale study has been carried out for a series of countries, including Kenya. In this paper we report on the Kenya study, run at four universities that have been selected...

Analysis of the Methods and Research Topics in a Sample of the Brazilian Distance Education Publications, 1992 to 2007

Jose Dutra de Oliveira Neto; Elaine Maria dos Santos

American Journal of Distance Education Vol. 24, No. 3 (2010) pp. 119–134

The objective of this study was to identify the methodological approaches employed in a sample of Brazilian distance education scientific literature and compare with similar publications in the United States. Brazilian sample articles (N = 983)...

Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities

Judith Pete; Fred Mulder; Jose Oliveira Neto; Kathleen Omollo

Open Praxis Vol. 10, No. 4 (Dec 28, 2018) pp. 405–421

This paper is the second in a series of three with a common goal to present a fair OER picture for Sub-Saharan Africa, represented by large-scale studies in three countries: Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. This paper examines a deliberate selection...

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Online Learning: Audio or Text?

Jose Dutra de Oliveira Neto; Wenhao David Huang; Nádia Cristina de Azevedo Melli

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 63, No. 4 (August 2015) pp. 555–573

Implementing online technologies alone cannot ensure learning. A verified approach is needed to optimize the pedagogical effect of online learning. Previous studies have suggested that the application of the modality principle in multimedia design...