Measuring use and creation of open educational resources in higher education

The open educational resources initiative has been underway for over a decade now and higher education institutions are slowly adopting open educational resources (OER). The use and creation of OER are important aspects of adoption and both are needed for the benefits of OER to be fully realized. B...

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Autores principales:	Ross Charles McKerlich, Cindy Ives, Rory McGreal
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2013
Materias:	open educational resources OER open textbooks open learning Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2889cb1c19024fcebd4359b0131770d12021-12-02T19:20:43ZMeasuring use and creation of open educational resources in higher education10.19173/irrodl.v14i4.15731492-3831https://doaj.org/article/2889cb1c19024fcebd4359b0131770d12013-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1573https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 The open educational resources initiative has been underway for over a decade now and higher education institutions are slowly adopting open educational resources (OER). The use and creation of OER are important aspects of adoption and both are needed for the benefits of OER to be fully realized. Based on the results of a survey developed to measure the readiness of faculty and staff to adopt OER, this paper focuses on the measurement of OER use and creation, and identifies factors to increase both. The survey was administered in September 2012 to faculty and staff of Athabasca University, Canada’s open university. The results offer a snapshot of OER use and creation at one university. The survey tool could provide a mechanism to compare and contrast OER adoption with other higher education institutions. Forty-three percent of those in the sample are using OER and 31% are creating OER. This ratio of use to creation is introduced as a possible metric to measure adoption. Ross Charles McKerlichCindy IvesRory McGrealAthabasca University Pressarticleopen educational resourcesOERopen textbooksopen learningSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 14, Iss 4 (2013)
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description	The open educational resources initiative has been underway for over a decade now and higher education institutions are slowly adopting open educational resources (OER). The use and creation of OER are important aspects of adoption and both are needed for the benefits of OER to be fully realized. Based on the results of a survey developed to measure the readiness of faculty and staff to adopt OER, this paper focuses on the measurement of OER use and creation, and identifies factors to increase both. The survey was administered in September 2012 to faculty and staff of Athabasca University, Canada’s open university. The results offer a snapshot of OER use and creation at one university. The survey tool could provide a mechanism to compare and contrast OER adoption with other higher education institutions. Forty-three percent of those in the sample are using OER and 31% are creating OER. This ratio of use to creation is introduced as a possible metric to measure adoption.
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Measuring use and creation of open educational resources in higher education

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