The effect of Open Educational Resources (OER) on Higher Education is still disappointing. (Re)use of materials, which can be accessed and employed freely, has not developed in such a way that it has changed the attitudes and behavior of teachers. After analyzing several aspects of the problem the article will focus on educational reasons to improve this situation. It is argued that to strive f...

This paper examines the pattern of educational homogamy in Ireland and Britain. Using contemporary data on recent marriages from the early 1970s through to the mid-1990s, we show that these two countries share a broadly similar pattern of educational homogamy, which is quasi-symmetric in character, with no tendency for women to marry up over and above that which can be attributed to the gender ...

The design of an adaptive or adaptable educational hypermedia (AEH) is a complex process. Beside the design activities of “conventional” educational hypermedia, it involves a number of other tasks the design of the learner model, of the user model detection mechanisms, of the adaptation capabilities (to dynamically customize the application according to the learner’s model), of the user control...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to determine the level of knowledge and the sources of information about normal puberty and menstrual patterns in Turkish schoolgirls from İstanbul. METHODS The study sample was comprised of 922 randomly chosen schoolgirls. A questionnaire survey of knowledge of normal pubertal development and menstrual patterns was conducted. RESULTS The age of the girls ranged be...

Exchange of racial for educational status has been documented for black/white marriages in the United States. Exchange may be an idiosyncratic feature of U.S. society, resulting from unusually strong racial boundaries historically developed there. We examine status exchange across racial lines in Brazil. In contrast to the United States, Brazil features greater fluidity of racial boundaries and...

Background: Over the last three decades, China has undergone profound socioeconomic transformations and opening to the outside world. These transformations have induced significant changes and variations in sexual norms and behaviors and in the social context of sexual partnering. Age at marriage is increasing; premarital and extramarital sex are becoming increasingly common; and the demand and...

This paper examines the pattern of educational homogamy in Ireland and the UK. Using contemporary data on recent marriages from the early 1970s through to the mid 1990s, we show that these two countries share a broadly similar pattern of educational homogamy, which is quasi-symmetric in character, with no hypergamy over and above that which can be attributed to the marginals. Summarising over a...