- document
-
The Open Education Global Conference is where the world meets to discuss how opening education helps us achieve universal access, equity, innovation and opportunity in education. The OE Global conference is the most internationally diverse conference devoted exclusively to open education, attracting researchers, practitioners, policy makers,...conference 2018
- document
-
Bossu, Carina (author), Stagg, Adrian (author)Open Educational Practices (OEP) have played an important role in assisting educational institutions and governments worldwide to meet their current and future educational targets in widening participation, lowering costs, improving the quality of learning and teaching and promoting social inclusion and participatory democracy. There have been...conference paper 2018
- document
-
Lozano, R. (author), Lukman, R. (author), Lozano, F.J. (author), Huisingh, D. (author), Zilahy, G. (author)Since the 1972 Stockholm Conference, many Sustainable Development declarations, charters, and partnerships have been developed, both in the overall societal context and within higher education frameworks. This paper addresses two issues: (1) a comparison of the development of sustainable development initiatives in society and in universities and...conference paper 2010
- document
-
Itard, L. (author), Van den Bogaard, M. (author), Hasselaar, E. (author)The challenges of sustainable engineering and design are complex and so are the challenges of teaching sustainability to higher education students. This paper deals with teaching environmental sustainability, with a specific focus on the sustainability of buildings. The paper addresses specifically the higher professional and academic education....conference paper 2010
- document
-
Martinho, A.P. (author), Nicolau, P.B. (author), Caeiro, S. (author), Amador, F. (author), Oliveira, C. (author)Promoting effective environmental citizenship is one way to achieve sustainability - people should be encouraged to act to preserve the environment and the common good. The citizens qualities and attitudes will determine the evolution of our society at all levels. Individuals must develop a cultural capacity that in modern society turn them...conference paper 2010
- document
-
Boeykens, S. (author), De Somer, P. (author), Klein, R. (author), Saey, R. (author)In a context of a slow uptake of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology in the Flemish region, we present the results of an educational research project, carried out over 4 semesters, in a multi-disciplinary, cross-campus collaboration. This project fosters an improved application of BIM, information management and communication, by...conference paper 2013
- document
- Langhorst, Tom (author), de Graaf, Lennart (author) conference paper 2018
- document
-
Quevedo Melo, E.F.R. (author), Júnior dos Santos, H. (author), Marcon Astolfi, R. (author), Quevedo Melo, R.H.R. (author), Aimi Severo, B.M. (author)The change in living standards has been done that the contact with nature becomes extremely important to the people life quality and its harmonious relationship with the environment. The preservation of areas like forest fragments contribute to maintaining biological diversity, promote sustainable use of natural resources and foster the...conference paper 2010
- document
-
Gros, Michael (author), Aspalter, Christian (author), Ebner, Markus (author), Ebner, Martin (author), , et al (author)The article depicts the blogging platform IDeRBlog as an example of an Open Educational Resources Practice. The exercise databases of IDeRBlog are focussed in the context of orthography training. After briefly outlining Open Educational Resources an overview on how the exercises were researched and reviewed according to an established quality...conference paper 2018
- document
- van der Woert, Nicolai (author) conference paper 2018
- document
-
Schwartz, M. (author)This research presents methods for simulation and visualization of human factors. This allows for a performance based analysis of buildings from the local human scale to the larger building scale. Technical issues such as computational time and mathematically describing a buildings geometry are discussed. The algorithms presented are integrated...conference paper 2013
- document
-
Ritchie, Laura (author)An international learning initiative focusing on student agency began with a link facilitating OE-enhanced teaching between a UK university and a US high school class. It became an international trip organised and funded by five UK students and their teacher, travelling to California to teach and perform music across formal and informal learning...conference paper 2018
- document
-
Ashford, N.A. (author)Scholars and professionals committed to fostering sustainable development have urged a re-examination of the curriculum and restructuring of research and teaching in institutions of higher learning. This paper begins by discussing an expansive definition of sustainable development that includes economic, environmental, and employment concerns...conference paper 2010
- document
- Schuwer, Robert (author), Janssen, Ben (author) conference paper 2018
- document
-
Zoller, F. (author)The Hague University of Applied Sciences has set up a new education called Climate & Environment, dealing with climate change in the built environment. The four year Bachelor education is as we call it project based. Every term comprises one project with supporting lectures and three courses. During the first year the students familiarize...conference paper 2010
- document
-
Bekbalaeva, Jyldyz (author), Walz, Anita (author), Namasbek Kyzy, Aisuluu (author), Keldibekova, Zhanylai (author)Independent, democratic, and post Soviet, Kyrgyzstan or the Central Asian Kyrgyz Republic, is in the midst of multiple changes that involve its cultural identity, economic incentive structure, government, and laws, all of which have an impact on the country’s educational systems and educational practices. In addition to national and local...conference paper 2018
- document
- Stracke, Christian M. (author), Hernández, Rocael (author), Delgado Kloos, Carlos (author), Del Mar Pérez Sanagustín, María (author), Moreira Teixeir, Antonio (author) conference paper 2018
- document
-
Heeney, A. (author), Foster, J. (author)This paper discusses how Engineering Science, an undergraduate division within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, has worked to foster engineers that can meaningfully contribute to sustainable development (SD). Specifically, Engineering Science has developed ESC102: Praxis II, a core course required for...conference paper 2010
- document
-
Jordan, Katy (author), Rolfe, Vivien (author), Weller, Martin (author), Devries, Irwin (author)Much recent research in open and distance education references literature that was produced primarily over the past decade. While the field of open education continues to evolve and branch out, many of its themes bear similarities to earlier research from the late 1960s and developing through to the ‘80s and beyond. As indicated by a lack of...conference paper 2018
- document
-
Gobée, O. Paul (author), Bellinga, Pim B. (author)Independently and unknowingly of each other, in two different subject fields, open learning platforms arose, that address similar needs and have similar set-ups, and differ from existing open education formats such as Open Educational Resources (OER) repositories and MOOCs. They appear to form a specific new type of platform, that we dubbed ...conference paper 2018