• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
• /
• 제21권9호
• /
• pp.169-172
• /
• 2021

The article discusses the results of a quantitative analysis of open educational resources in the field of information technology. Study is based on a study of the content of ten platforms that provide access to open resources (OPs). To achieve this goal, we used the following methods: theoretical analysis and generalization of Internet sources to determine the popularity of educational platforms and resources on them; quantitative data analysis to determine the relative proportion of IT courses in various parameters: the relative weight of courses in the IT field in general and on each platform in particular, the language of instruction, the quantitative content by thematic areas. The following platforms providing access to open educational resources were subjected to quantitative analysis: Coursera, Edx, Udemy, MIT OpenCourseWare, OpenLearn, Intuit, Prometheus, UoPeople, Open Learning Initiative, Maidan Open University.

• Educational Technology International
• /
• 제13권1호
• /
• pp.27-48
• /
• 2012

In this paper we are comparing how the OER (open educational resources) are developed in Higher Education in Finland and South Korea. We also present a comparison model for further studies. Essential findings based on our comparison are that in both countries there are many best practices of use of the OER and open learning. Open educational resources have great potential and their use can ensure quality teaching and learning. The activity has not inspired the great mass of higher education teachers in Finland and Korea. Traditionally, a teacher's job is working alone, and so a new operational culture is required. Our comparison indicates that numerous questions, fears and problems and cultural differences are also related to the thematic. There is an evident need for a new kind of strategic leadership, a new kind of teaching and learning culture and a doing together and production ideology for the method to spread. Based on our study the following interlinked elements of OER seem to be pivotal: changes to pedagogies, technology and operational culture; educational policy intention; and attitude to culture. Lastly, comparison frame by OER practice model is developed.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
• /
• 제54권3호
• /
• pp.187-208
• /
• 2020

오픈 에듀케이션이란 디지털 기술을 기반으로 교육 장벽을 해소하기 위해 전세계적으로 진행되고 있는 운동이다. 점차 확산되고 있는 오픈 에듀케이션 환경에서 도서관의 교육적 기능을 어떻게 수행할 것인가에 대한 논의가 필요하다. 이 연구에서는 오픈 에듀케이션의 개념과 구성요소를 고찰하고, 오픈 에듀케이션 환경에서 도서관이 어떻게 교육적 기능을 수행할 것인지 그 접근 방안을 제안하고자 한다. 이 연구의 결과는 도서관의 교육적 기능의 관점에서 도서관이 오픈 에듀케이션의 실행과 확산의 주체가 되고, 이를 위한 역할과 방향을 설정하는 데 있어 지침이 될 것이다.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
• /
• 제7권3호
• /
• pp.6-20
• /
• 2019

Learning analytics, or educational data mining, is an emerging field that applies data mining methods and tools for the exploitation of data coming from educational environments. Learning management systems, like Moodle, offer large amounts of data concerning students' activity, performance, behavior, and interaction with their peers and their tutors. The analysis of these data can be elaborated to make decisions that will assist stakeholders (students, faculty, and administration) to elevate the learning process in higher education. In this work, the power of Excel is exploited to analyze data in Moodle, utilizing an e-learning course developed for enhancing the information computer technology skills of school teachers in primary and secondary education in Greece. Moodle log files are appropriately manipulated in order to trace daily and weekly activity of the learners concerning distribution of access to resources, forum participation, and quizzes and assignments submission. Learners' activity was visualized for every hour of the day and for every day of the week. The visualization of access to every activity or resource during the course is also obtained. In this fashion teachers can schedule online synchronous lectures or discussions more effectively in order to maximize the learners' participation. Results depict the interest of learners for each structural component, their dedication to the course, their participation in the fora, and how it affects the submission of quizzes and assignments. Instructional designers may take advice and redesign the course according to the popularity of the educational material and learners' dedication. Moreover, the final grade of the learners is predicted according to their previous grades using multiple linear regression and sensitivity analysis. These outcomes can be suitably exploited in order for instructors to improve the design of their courses, faculty to alter their educational methodology, and administration to make decisions that will improve the educational services provided.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
• /
• 제21권11호
• /
• pp.97-104
• /
• 2021

The authors provide characteristics of the open educational platforms, classification and quantitative analysis regarding the availability of IT courses, teaching language, thematic directions on the following platforms: Coursera, EdX, Udemy, MIT Open Course Ware, OpenLearn, Intuit, Prometheus, UoPeople, Open Learning Initiative, Open University of Maidan (OUM). The quantitative analysis results are structured and visualized by tables and diagrams. The authors propose to use open educational resources (teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an intellectual property license that allows free use, adaptation, and distribution) for organization of independent work; for organization of distance or correspondence training; for professional development of teachers; for possibility and expediency of author's methods dissemination in the development of their own courses and promoting them on open platforms. Post-project activities are considered in comparing the courses content of one thematic direction, as well as studying the experience of their attending on different platforms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제14권5호
• /
• pp.2101-2121
• /
• 2020

The rapid growth of instructional videos repositories and their widespread use as a tool to support education have raised the need of studies to assess the quality of those educational resources and their impact on the quality of learning process that depends on them. Khan Academy (KA) repository is one of the prominent educational videos' repositories. It is famous and widely used by different types of learners, students and teachers. To better understand its characteristics and the impact of such repositories on education, we gathered a huge amount of KA data using its API and different web scraping techniques, then we analyzed them. This paper reports the first quantitative and descriptive analysis of Khan Academy repository (KA repository) of open video lessons. First, we described the structure of repository. Then, we demonstrated some analyses highlighting content-based growth and evolution. Those descriptive analyses spotted the main important findings in KA repository. Finally, we focused on users' interactions with video lessons. Those interactions consisted of questions and answers posted on videos. We developed interaction profiles for those videos based on the number of users' interactions. We conducted regression analysis and statistical tests to mine the relation between those profiles and some quality related proposed metrics. The results of analysis showed that all interaction profiles are highly affected by video length and reuse rate in different subjects. We believe that our study demonstrated in this paper provides valuable information in understanding the logic and the learning mechanism inside learning repositories, which can have major impacts on the education field in general, and particularly on the informal learning process and the instructional design process. This study can be considered as one of the first quantitative studies to shed the light on Khan Academy as an open educational resources (OER) repository. The results presented in this paper are crucial in understanding KA videos repository, its characteristics and its impact on education.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
• /
• 제19권12호
• /
• pp.471-479
• /
• 2018

본 연구는 대학기본역량평가 등 대학 혁신과 생존경쟁이 본격적으로 시작되는 시점에서 지역사회에 필요한 인재양성과 취업이라는 산학의 지속가능한 상생발전을 위해 대학이 산학실용이라는 측면에서 궁극적으로 추구하는 취업성과와 관련해서 학내 교육자원이 실질적으로 대학의 취업성과에 미치는 영향을 분석하고자 한다. 이를 통해 대학 내 정량적 지표인 대학자원을 기반으로 하는 대학별 지표를 통해 취업률에 영향을 미치는 요인을 발견 하고자 하는 것이다. 연구방법으로는 대학알리미 공시지표에서 사용하는 교육여건 항목, 교육재정 항목, 연구성과 항목 등 3가지 항목을 기준으로 각 세부지표들을 독립변수로 사용하여 종속변수인 취업률과의 연관성을 찾기 위해 가설 설정 및 검증, 실증분석, 기술통계분석, 상관관계분석들을 접목하였으며 다중회귀분석 결과, 교육여건과 취업률, 교유재정과 취업률, 연구성과와 취업률 측면에서 의미 있는 결과와 시사점을 도출할 수가 있었다. 이를 기반으로 지역별 특성을 반영한 실증분석이 축적된다면 지역중심 대학의 취업률 추이를 예상해 나가는 방향으로 연구를 확대해 나갈 수 있을 것으로 본다.

• Genomics & Informatics
• /
• 제21권1호
• /
• pp.15.1-15.4
• /
• 2023

Bioinformatics education can be defined as the teaching and learning of how to use software tools, along with mathematical and statistical analysis, to solve biological problems. Although many resources are available, most students still struggle to understand even the simplest sequence alignment algorithms. Applying visualizations to these topics benefits both lecturers and students. Unfortunately, educational software for visualizing step-by-step processes in the user experience of sequence alignment algorithms is rare. In this article, an educational visualization tool for biological sequence alignment is presented, and the source code is released in order to encourage the collaborative power of open-source software, with the expectation of further contributions from the community in the future. Two different modules are integrated to enable a student to investigate the characteristics of alignment algorithms.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
• /
• 제13권6호
• /
• pp.41-53
• /
• 2012

OER은 상호지식정보 교류의 확산을 가능하게 하며 사용자와 기관 모두에게 비용절감, 콘텐츠 품질 향상, 관계 형성 등의 이점을 가져다준다. OER 관련 연구는 정규교육과의 연계, 저작권 동향, 기업이러닝과 관련하여 진행된 바 있다. 그렇지만 활용현황과 문제점에 대한 연구는 미비한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 OER의 활성화를 위해 기관들을 대상으로 활용현황을 분석하고 분석결과를 토대로 기관운영에 대한 시사점을 제공하는데 목적이 있다. 현황조사는 아시아 14개 지역의 200여개 기관을 대상으로 진행되었으며, 분석결과 가장 많이 사용하는 자료로는 '이미지, 시각자료'인 것을 알 수 있었다. 사용 상의 저해요인으로는 '인식부족', '기술부족', '보상시스템의 부재' 등으로 나타났으며, 협력에 대한 참여도가 저조한 것으로 나타났다. OER의 활성화를 위해서 각 기관에서는 인식과 활용 기술, 저작권에 대한 연수를 제공할 필요가 있으며, 보상시스템과 활용을 위한 환경 구축에 대한 지원도 필요하다. 그리고 OER 공유를 위한 기관 간 협력에 대해 보다 적극적인 참여가 요구된다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
• /
• 제21권11호
• /
• pp.216-222
• /
• 2021

Advances in technology have given educators a tool to empower them to assist with developing the best possible human resources. Teachers at universities prefer to use more modern technological advances to help them educate their students. This opens up a necessity to research the capabilities of cloud-based learning services so that educational solutions can be found among the available options. Based on that, this essay looks at models and levels of deployment for the e-learning cloud architecture in the education system. A project involving educators explores whether gement Systems (LMS) can function well in a collaborative remote learning environment. The study was performed on how Blackboard was being used by a public institution and included research on cloud computing. This test examined how Blackboard Learn performs as a teaching tool and featured 60 participants. It is evident from the completed research that computers are beneficial to student education, especially in improving how schools administer lessons. Convenient tools for processing educational content are included as well as effective organizational strategies for educational processes and better ways to monitor and manage knowledge. In addition, this project's conclusions help highlight the advantages of rolling out cloud-based e-learning in higher educational institutions, which are responsible for creating the integrated educational product. The study showed that a shift to cloud computing can bring progress to educational material and substantial improvement to student academic outcomes, which is related to the increased use of better learning tools and methods.