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A survey of the awareness, offering, and adoption of OERs and MOOCs in Japan Cover

A survey of the awareness, offering, and adoption of OERs and MOOCs in Japan

Open Praxis
Volume 9 (2017): Issue 2
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|Apr 2017
Figures & tables

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Awareness of OER in higher education institution

Figure 2

Offering and Adoption of OERs and MOOCs

Figure 3

Purposes for offering OERs and MOOCs

* : p<0.05

Table 1

Results of the follow-up survey on offering MOOCs

MOOCs offeringFour-year institutionTwo-year institutionTechnical CollegeOverall Average
NationalLocal governmentPrivateTotal
Offered13.6%0.0%24.6%20.7%8.3%0.0%17.6%
Advanced9.1%0.0%1.6%3.4%0.0%0.0%2.8%
Same40.9%0.0%18.0%23.0%0.0%11.1%19.4%
Delayed13.6%25.0%0.0%4.6%0.0%11.1%4.6%
Not offered9.1%50.0%27.9%24.1%25.0%44.4%25.9%
Unknown13.6%25.0%27.9%24.1%66.7%33.3%29.6%

[i] Offered: Planned in 2013 and succeeded in offering in 2015

[ii] Advanced: Advances in planning of offerings compared to the results of the previous survey

[iii] Same: No change between 2013 and 2015

[iv] Delayed: Delayed in planning of offering compared to the results of the previous survey

[v] Not offered: Planned in 2013 and failed to offer in 2015

[vi] Unknown: Planned in 2013 and answered “not known” in 2015

Figure 4

Comparison of purposes for offering OERs and MOOCs

* : p<0.05 ** : p<0.01

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.9.2.568 | Journal eISSN: 2304-070X
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Language: English
Page range: 195 - 206
Submitted on: Jan 22, 2017
Accepted on: May 28, 2017
Published on: Apr 1, 2017
Published by: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
Open Educational Resources,
MOOCs,
Awareness of OER,
National Surveys,
Online courses,
Japan,
Higher Education

© 2017 Katsusuke Shigeta, Mitsuyo Koizumi, Hiroyuki Sakai, Yasuhiro Tsuji, Rieko Inaba, Naoshi Hiraoka, published by International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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