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- Presents a comprehensive compendium of breakthroughs, both current and imminent, to improve higher education
- Provides pioneering ideas from the leading experts in their fields
- Offers real-world examples for every topic to inspire readers
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Educational Technology (LNET)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This open access book presents how Open Science is a powerful tool to boost Higher Education. The book introduces the reader into Open Access, Open Technology, Open Data, Open Research results, Open Licensing, Open Accreditation, Open Certification, Open Policy and, of course, Open Educational Resources. It brings all these key topics from major players in the field; experts that present the current state of the art and the forthcoming steps towards a useful and effective implementation.
This book presents radical, transgenic solutions for recurrent and long-standing problems in Higher Education. Every chapter presents a clear view and a related solution to make Higher Education progress and implement tools and strategies to improve the user’s performance and learning experience. This book is part of a trilogy with companion volumes on Radical Solutions & Learning Analytics and Radical Solutions & eLearning.
Editors and Affiliations
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Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED), Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Daniel Burgos
About the editor
Prof. Dr. Daniel Burgos works as a Full Professor of Technologies for Education & Communication and Vice-rector for International Research (UNIR Research), at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR). In addition, he holds the UNESCO Chair on eLearning and the ICDE Chair in Open Educational Resources. He works also as Director of the Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED).
His interests are mainly focused on Educational Technology & Innovation: Adaptive/Personalised and Informal eLearning, Learning Analytics, Social Networks, eGames, and eLearning Specifications. He has published over 130 scientific papers, 15 books and 15 special issues on indexed journals. He is or has been involved in +55 European and Worldwide R&D projects, with a practical implementation approach.
He also works as a Professor at An-Najah National University (Palestine), an Assistant Professor at UniversidadNacional de Colombia (UNAL, Colombia), and a Visiting Professor at Coventry University (United Kingdom) and Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE, Ecuador). He has been chair (2016, 2018) and vice-chair (2015, 2017) of the international jury for the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education. He is a consultant for United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), European Commission, European Parliament, Russian Academy of Science and ministries of Education in over a dozen countries. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He holds degrees in Communication (PhD), Computer Science (Dr. Ing), Education (PhD), Anthropology (PhD), Business Administration (DBA) and Artificial Intelligence (MIT, postgraduate).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Radical Solutions and Open Science
Book Subtitle: An Open Approach to Boost Higher Education
Editors: Daniel Burgos
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Educational Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4276-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4275-6Published: 15 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4278-7Published: 18 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-4276-3Published: 14 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2196-4963
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4971
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 187
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Technology, Learning & Instruction, Higher Education, Technology and Digital Education