@inproceedings{Rodosthenous2016c,

title = {Developing An Academic Institutional Repository. The Case Of The Open University Of Cyprus},

author = {Christos Rodosthenous and Panagiotis Themistocleous and Stathis Mavrotheris and Christopher Christodoulides},

url = {https://www.christosrodosthenous.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DEVELOPING_AN_ACADEMIC_INSTITUTIONAL_REPOSITORY-preprint.pdf},

doi = {10.21125/edulearn.2016.1243},

issn = {2340-1117},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-07-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN2016)},

pages = {1175-1183},

publisher = {IATED},

address = {Barcelona, Spain},

series = {8th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies},

abstract = {The amount of digital content produced nowadays, is enormous. Academic institutions produce and make available a plethora of digital objects like research articles, thesis, dissertations, reports, audiovisual collections and many others. In addition, academic libraries digitize materials to create collections of historical, political or scientific significance and are responsible for keeping, preserving, archiving and publishing the content produced by their students and academic personnel. Aiming in that direction, the Open University of Cyprus, an institution responsible for delivering distance learning at the Republic of Cyprus, designed and deployed “Kypseli” Institutional repository.



In this work, the authors depict the methodology and tools used for building an academic Institutional repository using opensource tools at the Open University of Cyprus. Moreover, the procedures used for publishing content and the integration of the repository to the rest of the University’s infrastructure are analyzed, along with the challenges faced during the implementation and deployment phase.In addition, a number of metrics are presented, accompanied by statistics of usage.},

keywords = {academic repository, digitization, distance education, e-learning},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Rodosthenous2016,

title = {Building an infrastructure for empowering Distance Education in the Open University of Cyprus},

author = {Christos Rodosthenous and Petros Christoforou and Michalis Epiphaniou and Georgia Matheou and Stathis Mavrotheris and Christopher Christodoulides},

editor = {George Ubachs and Lizzie Konings},

url = {https://www.christosrodosthenous.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OOFHEC2016_FINAL_submission.pdf

http://conference.eadtu.eu/images/Proceedings/Conference_proceedings_2016_defcompressed2.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference (OOFHEC2016)},

publisher = {EADTU},

address = {Rome},

abstract = {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 Training Programs or as MOOCS. The Open University of Cyprus (OUC) is the only higher education organization in Cyprus dedicated to distance education using an innovative eLearning Platform named eClass.

The eClass eLearning Platform is the main educational medium of the Open University of Cyprus that hosts a number of services, courses, educational content and activities. The scope of this paper is to describe the eLearning Platform and the offered services that are integrated under its umbrella, like the Video Lecture and Streaming service, the Synchronous Learning service and the Plagiarism Detection service. Moreover, this paper presents an overview of how this platform is integrated to the University’s infrastructure for user creation and management, student enrolments and library services. We conclude by presenting metrics of the eLearning Platform usage.},

keywords = {distance education, eLearning Platform, infrastructure, Moodle},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Santos-hermosa2016,

title = {Library's Knowledge Resources for students and teaching staff in digital universities from EADTU},

author = {Gema Santos-hermosa and Paul Basich and Christos Rodosthenous and Evagelia Lappa and Marlies Bitter-Rijpkema and Fred Truyen},

editor = {George Ubachs and Lizzie Konings},

url = {https://www.christosrodosthenous.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PaperinOOFHEC2016_GSantos-Hermosa.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference (OOFHEC2016)},

publisher = {EADTU},

address = {Rome},

abstract = {Arising from work on a Vision and Strategy Appraisal of the UKOU Library Services, and with facilitation from EADTU, a comparative study was done of four distance teaching university library services functions in terms of support to students and teaching staff: FernUniversität; Open Universiteit Nederland (library services supplied by Maastricht University); Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; and Athabasca University. All participants agreed to share conclusions with each other, with the UK Open University, and with other members of EADTU. The workshop presented at OOFHEC 2016 will begin with brief presentations on the comparative study process and overall conclusions. Other members of the Working Group who took part will give brief highlights of their institutional summary reports. The majority of time at the workshop will be used for small-group working. Precise topics will depend on delegate types and numbers but the following are likely to be of interest:

 1. Extending the comparative study to other institutions active in distance and blended learning

 2. Integrating such studies with existing national/international review schemes for libraries, and how

 to update such schemes to cater for “digital libraries”

 3. How to ensure that that the library contributes to good results in benchmarking/review schemes at institution level, in particular E-xcellence and OpenUpEd.

},

keywords = {distance education},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{CHRISTOFOROU2015DEP,

title = {Deploying new services in the Open University of Cyprus eLearning Platform – Our experiences},

author = {Petros Christoforou and Christos Rodosthenous and Michalis Epiphaniou and Stathis Mavrotheris and Christopher Christodoulides},

url = {https://www.christosrodosthenous.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DEPLOYING-NEW-SERVICES-IN-THE-OPEN-UNIVERSITY-OF-CYPRUS-ELEARNING-PLATFORM-–-OUR-EXPERIENCES-FINAL.pdf

https://library.iated.org/view/CHRISTOFOROU2015DEP},

issn = {2340-1079},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2015)},

pages = {6108--6116},

publisher = {IATED},

series = {9th International Technology, Education and Development Conference},

abstract = {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 candidate services is a major challenge that requires in depth knowledge of the educational process, educators and students needs and all the available solutions. The outcome of this procedure is the introduction of a service that is integrated into eClass. The scope of this paper is to describe and elaborate on the procedure used for the selection and deployment of new services in eClass. Authors provide a description of eClass followed by an analysis of the procedure used to introduce a new service. Next, we report on the deployment phases and challenges faced during each step. Specific project implementations are presented for demonstrating the eClass components. We conclude by presenting the results of a user satisfaction survey of the deployed services.},

keywords = {asynchronous, distance education, elearning, eLearning Platform, lecture capture, plagiarism detection, synchronous, video},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{RODOSTHENOUS2015PLA,

title = {Plagiarism Detection and Prevention – Experiences From the Open University of Cyprus},

author = {Christos Rodosthenous and Petros Christoforou and Michalis Epiphaniou and Georgia Matheou and Stathis Mavrotheris and Christopher Christodoulides},

url = {https://library.iated.org/view/RODOSTHENOUS2015PLA

https://www.christosrodosthenous.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PLAGIARISM-DETECTION-AND-PREVENTION.pdf},

issn = {2340-1117},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN15)},

pages = {1348--1355},

publisher = {IATED},

series = {7th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies},

abstract = {The introduction of eLearning led to a number of advancements in student assessment and evaluation. Conventional methods of assignment submission, evaluation and feedback were substituted by online workflows and were enhanced with plagiarism detection tools to assist tutors in evaluating large numbers of assignments. The increasing number of eLearning students along with the huge amount of freely accessible information on the Internet, require tools and services for tutors, to assist the grading of student assignments and check the originality of their work. In this paper, we present the methodology used for introducing and delivering a plagiarism detection service in the Open University of Cyprus eLearning platform and integrating it with the assignment submission process. Additionally, we describe the challenges faced during and after the implementation and the actions taken to train tutors in using the service in a proper way. We conclude by presenting an evaluation of the service, both for its educational and technical soundness, along with statistics of its usage during the last four years.},

keywords = {distance education, e-learning, evaluation, plagiarism detection, student assessment},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}