Contents

• Automation or empowerment: online learning at the crossroads

• Differentiated targeting orientation of online distance education in the age of MOOCs in China

• Towards a sustainable business mode of OER

• The design of online TCFL activities based on Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

• Video types and their effect on learners’ online learning experience: an empirical study

• Factors influencing satisfaction with online formative assessment in open and distance education

• Cloud learning environment and its application in open education: the case of Zhuhai RTVU

• Promoting learner participation and skills improvement: teaching mode at University of Phoenix

• Virtual schools supporting personalized learning: the case of Sky Mountain Charter School 

• WeChat Public Platform supporting college students’ social practice

• Micro library service based on WeChat Public Platform in higher education institutions: current status and counter measures

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• Open education and personal learning

• Research on the connotation, features and conceptual framework of support services for smart learning

• Personalized learning support based on smart information push: A case study of Literature reading and essay writing

• Towards an online learning evaluation model based on LMBP algorithm

• A cluster analysis of MOOC interaction patterns

• A case study of social interaction in MOOC discussion areas

• The application of Flipped Classroom model in software courses: The case of 2D Animation

• Community education: A review of articles published in Chinese key academic journals

• A study on the financial management mechanism of OUC scholarships

• Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first fully online course

• New frontiers in ODL: A summary of 29th Annual Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities

• Book review: Rethinking Construction of Open Universities

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• A personalized approach to recommending educational information resources

• Developing personalized learning resources in the E-textbook environment

• Factors influencing learner satisfaction with E-Textbooks

• A review of literature on flipped classrooms in China

• Constructing a learning outcome accreditation and credit transfer scheme for credit banks 

• Technology, education and design: the sciences of the artificial

• Correlativity between psychological health service needs and social support for ODE students

• How does a Guidance + Service model of online teaching challenge traditional teaching concepts and performance?  

• Online teacher training platforms: content analysis and optimization strategies

• Online learning environment design based on embodied cognition theory: design and development of online virtual English learning community for primary school kids

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• Learning field in mixed virtual/physical environments: features and formation

• Intraindividual differences in children’s typing compositions in the online environment

• Integrating learning management and social networking systems

• An evaluation system for instructional quality of the ‘One College Student for One Village’ Initiative

• Factors affecting educational institutions’ participation in the academic credit bank system in China: a time perspective

• A participatory approach to designing learning spaces

• Teaching mathematics courses in the online environment: instructional design of software project

• Growing capacities for sustainable distance e-learning provision: a summary of the 26th ICDE World Conference 

• Technology and educational innovation in the age of ‘Internet Plus’: a summary of the 14th International Forum on Educational Technology

• Focusing on diversified practice and research in distance learning: a summary of the 2015 AECT International Convention

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