Essential Questions

Since the release of the Internet, it has been 30 years since computer scientists have been continuously researching and developing and overcoming many technical problems. Now with the modern Internet of Things technology, the development of the Internet of Things has also taken place. In other words, there is an Internet that allows open education to develop better. Therefore, the current open education is built on the Internet. Therefore, the Internet of Things allows people to obtain better educational resources and students can get cheaper. The price to learn advanced technology and knowledge is undoubtedly to enable more people to receive education and society to get better development because education can make people from 0 to 1 so the Internet of Things is undoubtedly Great technology to promote world development. Open learning is a very advanced education system. It has three important reasons. First, open education allows students to spend less money to gain knowledge. Students can purchase e-books instead of buying physical books. Second, students can get more. Network resources and most of these resources are free and shared. Anyone can go to read and learn. The third and most important point is that online courses allow students to participate well in learning because students do not need to go to a specific location and specific time. Going to class, so this is also a solution to the problem of distance. Students do not need to live in the same city to complete the course through the network. Question 1: How open education to help students reduce their tuition? Question 2: How open education can help students get good learning resources？Question 3: Is open education better than the traditional education system?

 

Article Review #1

Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research on efficacy and perceptions (Authours: John Hilton ): The author has done a lot of research and found that in traditional higher education, the price of textbooks has increased significantly, which accounts for a small share of the total tuition fee. Then the results of the survey in open education show that the knowledge acquired by students is equivalent to traditional education. The tuition fee is less than that of traditional education. Therefore, the author believes that since open education reduces students’ tuition fees, it is necessary to develop open learning.

 

Article Review #2

Open Education: from OERs to MOOCs (Authours: Mohamed Jemni, Kinshuk, Mohamed Koutheair Khribi): The author believes that teaching and learning have changed a lot in the past 100 years. Student learning has been limited to formal classrooms and educational institutions. Now many students can learn new knowledge through the Internet and students are free to read. And the study of these free and open resources, the new educational system brought about by the Internet and the large-scale openness of the online library of advanced learning databases also shows that the success of open education also illustrates the progress of the times and the development of technology.

 

Article Review #3

Open educational resources: education for the world? (Authours: Thomas Richter): The author believes that education is an important means of solving national and international problems. For example, political or religious extremism or developing countries want to develop into developed countries must enhance the knowledge education of the people. Because knowledge can change the fate of knowledge, it can also turn 0 into 1 so open. Education can enable some students who cannot afford tuition to receive knowledge or use cheap tuition to get students to access advanced knowledge from online resources. Therefore, the author believes that open education is a brand new educational system. It is a kind of world education. Provide students with good educational resources

 

Open Education Resource (OER)

Teaching textbooks are the way most students receive traditional education. Nowadays, open education has gradually become a mainstream educational method. In the past, students could only obtain knowledge by reading textbooks and also limited to traditional educational institutions. And the cost of these textbooks is very high. It also adds a lot of tuition. It’s important that many of the textbooks are used only once and there is no chance to use them. Through research, only 18% of students will often 53% of the students who read these books indicated that they rarely read textbooks in class, so many students would not like to read these textbooks when they bought books, and 64% of students said that because textbooks are too expensive, they would not buy these textbooks. Education will not be so expensive because many of the learning materials in open education are free resources from the Internet. Therefore, the development of open education can reduce the cost of many students. Another point is that sometimes the school’s bookstore does not have as many books as the students. I have to go outside to find these textbooks but open them. Resources would not have these problems because many things are students from the network can quickly and easily obtain these learning materials and therefore reduce the open education student spending to some extent so that fewer students to pay more tuition.

In the past, students only had access to knowledge of informal educational institutions. There is no other way and the books are very expensive. Many students are reluctant to spend money on textbooks. Now technology is getting better. People have their own computers. And the Internet, so open education has since been born, so now students do not need to be limited to learning in the formal education structure. Students can get knowledge textbooks through open education and gradually become e-books. Students can read through the Internet. These learning materials and the Internet is a huge Internet that can collect resources from all over the world. So the open education resource library is very abundant and huge, and the books with many limitations in the physical book are difficult to find in reality and the network is not the same. The network has a good search function that allows students to quickly find the books they want. From here, open education has a bigger and more complete learning resources than traditional education.

We all know that students who spend a lot of money on colleges are often poor, but learning advanced knowledge is also very precious. But now open education has solved the problem of expensive tuition. More and more students are learning on the Internet. Some students who can’t afford the university can also receive more education on the Internet. Open education is also more flexible and more fun than traditional education. Students can read knowledge from all over the world on the Internet. This is also a way to strengthen the people of the world. The way of communication nowadays, many people can do it through the Internet and know that what happens in the world every day can also learn the cultural knowledge of the world through the Internet. Therefore, open education is an advanced education system and the cheapest education resource.

 

Conclusions

Through the above research, we can find that the current open education is more and more accepted and more advanced. Many students like online courses because the educational resources are relatively rich, the prices are cheaper, and the added content is more extensive and most important. Three points are also reflected in the fact that open education has a larger learning resource library, cheaper textbooks, and broader knowledge. The three points are the reason why open education has become more popular.

 

References

Hilton, J. (2016). Open educational resources and college textbook choices: A review of research on efficacy and perceptions. Educational Technology Research and Development, 64(4), 64:4<573–590;573–590;-590. DOI:10.1007/s11423-016-9434-9

Jemni, Mohamed, Mohamed Koutheair, and Kinshuk Khribi. Open Education: From OERs to MOOCs. Springer, Heidelberg, [Germany];Berlin, [Germany];, 2017;2016;, DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-52925-6.

Kurubacak, Gulsun, and Hakan Altinpulluk. “Mobile Technologies and Augmented Reality in Open Education.” IGI Global, 2017. 1-366. Web. 12 Aug. 2019. DOI:10.4018/978-1-5225-2110-5

Mincu, M. E., et al. The Pedagogy of the Open Society: Knowledge and the Governance of Higher Education, Sense Publishers, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=3034795.

Richter, Thomas, and Maggie McPherson. “Open Educational Resources: Education for the World?” Distance Education, vol. 33, no. 2, 2012, pp. 201-219.