Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.592
Berrin Cefa
{"title":"Book Review: Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education","authors":"Berrin Cefa","doi":"10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45611,"journal":{"name":"Open Praxis","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84062578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.55982/openpraxis.15.1.540
Waqar Husain, F. Faize, Javaria Urooj, Rabeya Tariq
The true spirit of education involves psychosocial grooming and character building of learners. Teacher’s efficacy plays a vital role in achieving educational objectives. The effectiveness of teachers is usually evaluated through the academic grades of their students. Teacher’s efficacy, however, is originally the ability of a teacher to improve the cognitive functioning and humanistic values of students. The current study developed and validated a new scale entitled the Qualiquant Teacher’s Efficacy Scale (QTES) by involving 147 teachers and 59 students. The sample was selected thru a mixed method that involved convenient and purposive sampling techniques. QTES reflected strong validity and excellent reliability thru exploratory factor analysis, Cronbach’s alpha, item-scale, and item-total correlations. QTES is a unique measure for teacher’s efficacy because it defines teacher’s efficacy through cognitive functioning and humanistic values, offers two parallel and separate versions for teachers and students, and quantifies the qualitative data.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.55982/openpraxis.15.1.529
B. Class, Thierry Agagliate, Abdeljalil Akkari, N. Cheikhrouhou, Moussa Sagayar
Research in the field of Higher Education in Emergencies (HEiE) starts to question the imposed Global North-centred perspective which arrives with ready-made solutions, considering refugees as objects of intervention rather than subjects of transformation. Leveraging the broader topics of Open Science and Open Education, this paper pioneers a new approach to scientific cooperation, fostering values of Openness in refugee higher education. It specifically addresses HEiE in Niger, Africa, in a training of trainers’ programme. It is designed in a participatory manner involving academics from the Global South and Global North, refugees who are themselves educators, and NGOs. Taking the form of a Certificate of Open Studies (COS), the training empowers refugees as enabled change agents, capable of making sense of diverse knowledge systems to transform their reality. Preliminary understanding of Open Cooperation is shared through a conceptual framework, Empowering refugees through liberation-oriented education . It addresses sustainability at the ontological and epistemic levels and relies on four main dimensions: Epistemologies of the South, Openness, Common good and Education as empowerment.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.569
Junhong Xiao
{"title":"Critiquing Sustainable Openness in Technology-Based Education from the Perspective of Cost-Effectiveness and Accessibility","authors":"Junhong Xiao","doi":"10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.569","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45611,"journal":{"name":"Open Praxis","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77529171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.55982/openpraxis.15.2.542
Marja Versantvoort, R. Schuwer
{"title":"Towards Sustainable OER Practices: The Case of Bachelor Nursing in the Netherlands","authors":"Marja Versantvoort, R. Schuwer","doi":"10.55982/openpraxis.15.2.542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.15.2.542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45611,"journal":{"name":"Open Praxis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80442354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.579
Aras Bozkurt
{"title":"Generative AI, Synthetic Contents, Open Educational Resources (OER), and Open Educational Practices (OEP): A New Front in the Openness Landscape","authors":"Aras Bozkurt","doi":"10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.579","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45611,"journal":{"name":"Open Praxis","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73148597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.560
Barbara Class
{"title":"Epistemic Considerations of Open Education to Re-Source Educators’ Praxis Sustainably","authors":"Barbara Class","doi":"10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45611,"journal":{"name":"Open Praxis","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81102735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}