• Building an infrastructure for empowering Distance Education in the Open University of Cyprus 

    Rodosthenous, Christos; Christoforou, Petros; Epiphaniou, Michalis; Matheou, Georgia; Mavrotheris, Stathis; Christodoulides, Christopher (EADTU Conference, 2016-10-19)
    Universities worldwide offer distance education courses through a number of channels. There is a plethora of courses offered either as part of official Programs of Study that lead to a degree or even as Vocational ...
  • DEPLOYING NEW SERVICES IN THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS ELEARNING PLATFORM - OUR EXPERIENCES 

    Christoforou, Petros; Rodosthenous, Christos; Epiphaniou, Michalis; Mavrotheris, Stathis; Christodoulides, Christopher (IATED, 2015)
    The eClass eLearning Platform (eClass) is the main educational tool of the Open University of Cyprus (OUC), used for facilitating online teaching and learning. Selecting and deploying the best alternative among different ...
  • DEVELOPING AN ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY. THE CASE OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS 

    Rodosthenous, Christos; Themistocleous, Panagiotis; Mavrotheris, Stathis; Christodoulides, Christopher (IATED, 2016)
    The amount of digital content produced nowadays, is enormous. Academic institutions produce and make available a plethora of digital objects like research articles, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual collections ...
  • ENGAGING USERS IN DISTANCE EDUCATION - THE CASE OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS 

    Epiphaniou, Michalis; Rodosthenous, Christos; Christoforou, Petros; Mavrotheris, Stathis; Christodoulides, Christodoulides (The International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2015-03-04)
    The evolution of technology during the last decades gave a new impetus to education. Distance Education started to grow to something noticeable, but it was the Internet in the mid-1990s that broadened Distance Education’s ...
  • PLAGIARISM DETECTION AND PREVENTION - EXPERIENCES FROM THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS 

    Rodosthenous, Christos; Christoforou, Petros; Epiphaniou, Michalis; Matheou, Georgia; Mavrotheris, Stathis; Christodoulides, Christopher (IATED, 2015)
    The introduction of eLearning led to a number of advancements in student assessment and evaluation. Convent ional methods of coursework submission, evaluation and feedback were ...