Open access scholarly publications as OER

This article presents the rationale, common practices, challenges, and some personal anecdotes from a journal editor on the production, use, and re-use of peer-reviewed, scholarly articles as open educational resources (OER). The scholarly and professional discourse related to open educational reso...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Terry Anderson
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2013
Materias:	Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/218e8ceec9694a14b4ebf7da3a3e4804
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:218e8ceec9694a14b4ebf7da3a3e4804
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:218e8ceec9694a14b4ebf7da3a3e48042021-12-02T17:00:37ZOpen access scholarly publications as OER10.19173/irrodl.v14i2.15311492-3831https://doaj.org/article/218e8ceec9694a14b4ebf7da3a3e48042013-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1531https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 This article presents the rationale, common practices, challenges, and some personal anecdotes from a journal editor on the production, use, and re-use of peer-reviewed, scholarly articles as open educational resources (OER). The scholarly and professional discourse related to open educational resources has largely focused on open learning objects, courseware, and textbooks. However, especially in graduate education, articles published in scholarly journals are often a major component of the course content in formal education. In addition, open access journal articles are critical to expanding access to knowledge by scholars in the developing world and in fostering citizen science, by which everyone has access to the latest academic information and research results. In this article, I highlight some of the challenges, economic models, and evidence for quality of open access journal content and look at new affordances provided by the Net for enhanced functionality, access, and distribution. In the seventeen years since I graduated with a doctorate degree, the climate and acceptance of open access publishing has almost reversed itself. I recall a conversation with my PhD supervisor in which he argued that publishing online was not a viable option as the product would not have permanency, scholarly recognition, or the prestige of a paper publication. His comments reflect the confusion between online resources and those described as open access, but as well illustrate the change in academic acceptance and use of open access products during the past decade. The evolution from paper to online production and consumption is a disruptive technology in which much lower cost and increased accessibility of online work opens the product to a completely new group of potential users. In the case of OER these consumers are primarily students, but certainly access to scholars from all parts of the globe and the availability to support citizen science (Silvertown, 2009) should not be underestimated. Terry AndersonAthabasca University PressarticleSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 14, Iss 2 (2013)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Special aspects of education LC8-6691
spellingShingle	Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Terry Anderson Open access scholarly publications as OER
description	This article presents the rationale, common practices, challenges, and some personal anecdotes from a journal editor on the production, use, and re-use of peer-reviewed, scholarly articles as open educational resources (OER). The scholarly and professional discourse related to open educational resources has largely focused on open learning objects, courseware, and textbooks. However, especially in graduate education, articles published in scholarly journals are often a major component of the course content in formal education. In addition, open access journal articles are critical to expanding access to knowledge by scholars in the developing world and in fostering citizen science, by which everyone has access to the latest academic information and research results. In this article, I highlight some of the challenges, economic models, and evidence for quality of open access journal content and look at new affordances provided by the Net for enhanced functionality, access, and distribution. In the seventeen years since I graduated with a doctorate degree, the climate and acceptance of open access publishing has almost reversed itself. I recall a conversation with my PhD supervisor in which he argued that publishing online was not a viable option as the product would not have permanency, scholarly recognition, or the prestige of a paper publication. His comments reflect the confusion between online resources and those described as open access, but as well illustrate the change in academic acceptance and use of open access products during the past decade. The evolution from paper to online production and consumption is a disruptive technology in which much lower cost and increased accessibility of online work opens the product to a completely new group of potential users. In the case of OER these consumers are primarily students, but certainly access to scholars from all parts of the globe and the availability to support citizen science (Silvertown, 2009) should not be underestimated.
format	article
author	Terry Anderson
author_facet	Terry Anderson
author_sort	Terry Anderson
title	Open access scholarly publications as OER
title_short	Open access scholarly publications as OER
title_full	Open access scholarly publications as OER
title_fullStr	Open access scholarly publications as OER
title_full_unstemmed	Open access scholarly publications as OER
title_sort	open access scholarly publications as oer
publisher	Athabasca University Press
publishDate	2013
url	https://doaj.org/article/218e8ceec9694a14b4ebf7da3a3e4804
work_keys_str_mv	AT terryanderson openaccessscholarlypublicationsasoer
_version_	1718382197493202944

Open access scholarly publications as OER

Ejemplares similares