Mapping the open education landscape: citation network analysis of historical open and distance education research

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Mapping the open education landscape: citation network analysis of historical open and distance education research

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The authors conduct a network mapping of citations within the OER space. They identify eight district focus areas with a relatively small amount of overlap, namely (1) OER, (2) social media, (3) OA publishing, (4) open practices, (5) distance education and open learning, (6) e-learning, (7) MOOCs, and (8) open education in schools. The authors note that there analysis reveals "a lack of solid connections between what intuitively would appear to be strongly related areas" (p. 121), and highlight the importance of studies that serve as "nodes" (p. 121) by connecting the study areas.

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Martin Weller, Katy Jordan, Irwin DeVries, Viv Rolfe

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Martin Weller
Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University. Director of the OER Hub ICDE Chair in OER Author of The Battle for Open Interested in impact of OER, and open approaches in education genera...
Katy Jordan
Viv Rolfe
Scientist and open education practitioner and researcher. Have worked advocating open practices in three UK Universities - The University of Nottingham, De Montfort University and the University of th...

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Open Praxis
Open Praxis is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal focusing on research and innovation in open, distance and flexible education. It is published by the International Council for Open and Dis...

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