• Policy changes in education for the elderly: influencing factors, path dependence and value orientation
• Targeted poverty alleviation through distance education: evaluating beneficiaries’ perceived gains
• An inquiry of adult students’learning effectiveness in terms of learning motivation and barriers
• Self-regulated learning and learning analytics in online learning environments: a review of
  empirical research
• Critical Questions for Open Educational Practices: reviewing the special themed issue of Distance
  Education (41/2, 2020)
• On natural technology and its theoretical value of educational technology
• Lifelong education: big data application model and service platform construction
• Relationship between teachers and administrative staff in open education: a structuralist perspective
• An analysis of the utility relationships between the instructional characteristics and the value subjects’
  needs of online open courses in universities
• Contents of Distance Education in China in 2020
• Abstracts
• Contents

• Using CiteSpace to analyze Chinese journal publications: an optimized research paradigm
• The development of intelligent education equipment in China: status quo and directions for future R&D
• Worldwide wisdom of the crowd in education and development
• Reviewing the philosophy and practice of open education: an international perspective
• Reflection on openness in education: its historical evolution in the West
• A study of the relationship between university students' early-rising’ and ‘book-borrowing’
  behaviours and their learning performance
• The impact of virtual reality technology on learning performance: a meta-analysis of 59 experiments
  and quasi-experiments
• Factors influencing learning performance on online learning platforms: a user-experience perspective
• Abstracts
• Contents

• Towards a model for evaluating students' online learning behaviors and learning performance
• Evaluation of online learning engagement based on model integration
• Promoting teachers' IT skills in the USA: strategies and implications
• The impact of the principal's IT leadership on teachers' IT use: a meta-analysis of 42 empirical
  studies
• Teacher professional development mechanism in the Open University of China from the perspective
  of Giddens’ Structuration Theory
• Evaluation of UNESCO's Recommendation concerning Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Integration of vocational education resources in Germany from a symbiotic perspective: practices
  and implications
• Mobile learning in higher vocational education institutions
• Abstracts
• Contents

• Clarifying the connotations of national qualifications framework: a textual analysis of multiple
  national/regional qualifications frameworks
• German Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning: features and implications
• Open schooling: the case of COL’s Open and Innovative Schooling (OIS) model
• Aligning course content and competency standards to promote competency-based education:
  interpreting IMS Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange Specification
• Using adapted RFM and GMDH algorithms to predict MOOC user attrition rate
• Do social media impact learning performance positively or negatively?
• Instructional interactions in connectivist learning
• Research on smart learning in China in the past decade: evolutions and trends
• Developing community education to revitalize rural culture
• Abstracts
• Contents

• Lifelong learning for sustainable development: from coexistence to upward spiral
• Regional credit banks for lifelong learning: functions, service models and implementation strategies
• The relationship between the knowledge flow characteristics and the interaction level of
  cMOOC learners
• Designing blended learning in the Internet plus era
• A contextualization - generalization - recontextualization cycle in open and distance education
  theory building and application: a cultural perspective
• Framework design and practice of data-driven education service: the service triangle model
• ICT leadership in schools from the perspective of smart campus
• Book review: Online Learning: the Student Experience
• A QCA approach to cross-sector professional development of teachers from a perspective of
  Community of Learning
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• Contents

• The Leadership imperative: back to the future after the COVID-19 pandemic
• From online teaching competency to integration of both online and offline teaching competency
• Towards an inclusive lifelong learning system: a service and integration-based perspective
• Impact of national qualification framework implementation from an international perspective
• Evolution of adaptive learning in American higher education institutions from the perspective of
  technological culture and philosophy
• Technology enhanced critical thinking instruction: practical considerations
• The MOOC Framework: a metacognitive view
• Computational Thinking Competencies and future developments: interpretation of and implications
  from ISTE Standards for Educators
• Community education satisfaction evaluation model and its application
• Abstracts
• Content

Contents:

• Systematic review of research on artificial intelligence applications in higher education: where are the educators? 
• Constructing and verifying a model of integrating multimodal data from online learning behaviors
• Investigating the interrelationship between social network interaction, emotional characteristics and learning outcomes
• MOOCs and teacher professional development: big data-driven insights into active ageing
• Open education for elderly population: lessons learnt from the Open University of Japan
• Chinese open university's challenges and solutions from the perspective of modern university governance
• Transforming open universities of Chinese key cities in the new age
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Contents:

• Synergistic interplay between AI in Education and digital economy: its logic and promotion strategies
• Conceptualizing networked knowledge and constructing its representation model
• Quantifying cognitive engagement in cloud-based learning space
• Development of computer-based interactive assessment: the case of science inquiry
• Undergraduate student engagement in general education courses:  the case of Qingdao Agriculture University 
• Putting the pedagogic horse in front of the technology cart
• Reconstructing and measuring social presence at teacher professional development workshops
• The impact of learning space on teachers' instructional decision-making: a case study of East
  China Normal University
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Contents:

• Implementing learning analytics: an ecosystemic perspective
• The difference of returns to distance higher education in terms of sector and region
• Artificial intelligence colleges in Chinese universities: motivation, value and philosophy 
• Development of intergenerational learning projects in the 'Internet+' era: European experience and Chinese perspective 
• Design and application of iterative project-based O2O-learning: from the perspective of first principles of instruction
• Online Chinese learning resources based on aggregation and integration: cognitive model construction
• Impact of task scaffolding with differentiated intensity on the motivation and immersion of learners in their educational games
• Promoting learning by evaluation: peer assessment based on triadic reciprocal determinism
• Data driven decision making of teachers' teaching: a literature review
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