Abstract Open educational resources (OER) raise many similar issues for education to those that have surrounded Learning Objects (LO). However the greater use and availability of digital technologies open licensing seems be enabling OER wider acceptance into individual institutional teaching practice. While need appropriate design in learning on part educators, which was primary driver developments LO, remains, very openness is changing relationships between learners content (resources)...

Openness has been a feature of higher education for many decades, particularly through the establishment open universities, although there remain debates about what openness means in practice. Digital technologies, some based on principles, and digital content, aided by licences, have both contributed recently to an extension is deemed possible under heading openness. Nevertheless, while principle may be greater degrees available it does not mean practice that people can still readily avail...

Purpose – This research aims to examine the main findings of SusTEACH study carbon-based environmental impacts 30 higher education (HE) courses in 15 UK institutions, based on an analysis likely energy consumption and carbon emissions a range face-to-face, distance, online information communication technology (ICT)-enhanced blended teaching models. Design/methodology/approach An assessment 19 campus-based 11 distance-based HE was conducted using questionnaire surveys gather data from...

This paper describes the internal motivations and external drivers that led The Open University UK to enter field of Educational Resources through its institution‐wide OpenLearn initiative (www.open.ac.uk/openlearn). It also some emerging evidence impacts inside outside university. Through rapid implementation operation website, has been able better understand promote openness open distance learning.

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have recently become a much discussed development within higher education. Much of this debate focuses on the philosophical and operational similarities differences between types MOOCs that emerged to date, learner completion rates how they can be sustained. In contrast there has been less discussion about such courses do, or do not, fit in with existing education policy practice terms social, economic environmental benefits. This paper begins address...

Nature of exposure is a fundamental driver in nontarget terrestrial plant risk assessment for pesticides; consequently novel study was designed to generate field-based drift and evaluate corresponding biological effects the herbicide mesotrione. The approach used combination US guideline reduction technology vegetative vigor approaches. In each 3 independent replicate spray application trials, 10 pots lettuce tomato were placed at distances 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 ft (∼3, 6, 9, 12, 15 m) from...

SUMMARY Counts of Aphis fabae Scop, eggs in winter and the active stages May on spindle bush, Euonymus europaeus L., are used to predict need for chemical control black bean aphid spring‐sown field beans, Vicia faba L. For purposes forecasting, most England south Humber is divided into 18 areas which separate forecasts made. A level 5 per cent plants colonized SW. headlands fields early mid‐June as an economic threshold above measures justified. From 1970 1975, area probability attack were...

Abstract Despite the widespread availability of information and communication technologies ( ICT s) some research into specific pedagogical practices using them, there has been little on role these in shaping broader approaches higher education HE ). Increased experimentation s raises questions about their teaching, learning assessment provision, creating innovative pedagogies. An accepted approach is needed to compare different ways rich media are used teaching models. Within SusTEACH...

Education for All has been a concept at the heart of international development since 1990 and found its latest instantiation within Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as SDG 4, ‘Ensure inclusive equitable quality education promote lifelong learning opportunities all’. Open education, in form resources practices are both seen contributors to SDG4 evidenced by recent 2nd World Educational Resources Congress. The ambition open contribute SDGs is clear from this other gatherings but means make...

Summary Climate and ecosystem changes, economic policy imperatives, food system pressures, multiple societal expectations pose complex challenges for sustainable farming. A key problem is determining an effective efficient approach to enable innovation in complex, multi‐stakeholder settings. One currently receiving much attention investment the EU ‘Living Labs’ which bring together public private stakeholders co‐create, validate, test new services, business ideas, markets technologies....

Biomass fuel composition is compared to host soil contamination for energy crops grown on five contrasting sites in NE England. These include three contaminated brownfield and control both urban rural settings. Fuel quality willow (Salix spp.) short rotation coppice (SRC), miscanthus (Miscanthus spp.), reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea) switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). The information used assess the potential long-term remediation of land during crop growth. Concentrations Zn Cd are...

This paper argues that designing collections of ‘closed’ educational resources (content and technologies) for use by specific student cohorts open any ‘learner’ require different design approaches. Learning formal courses has been a research topic over 10 years as the ever growing range digital content technologies potentially offered new opportunities constructing effective learning experiences, primarily through greater sharing re-use such technologies. While...

Pockmarks are geohazards that can impact offshore developments, and an understanding of their formation assists in determination physical characteristics the prediction future behaviour. This study documents how presence submarine landslides - either on seafloor or buried favour pockmark through characterisation two fields from Australian North West Shelf. Analysis was carried out innovative workflow combining full-volume interpretation exploration 3D seismic data semi-automated mapping...