Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects

This article provides an overview of the current state of repositories of open educational resources (ROER) in higher education at international level. It analyses a series of educational indicators to determine whether ROER can meet the specific needs of the education context, and to clarify unders...

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Autores principales:	Gema Santos-Hermosa, Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Ernest Abadal
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2017
Materias:	repositories open educational resources OER evaluation reuse higher education Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4a7abd65daa04535ad375aa718c6ecd42021-12-02T18:03:00ZRepositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects10.19173/irrodl.v18i5.30631492-3831https://doaj.org/article/4a7abd65daa04535ad375aa718c6ecd42017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3063https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This article provides an overview of the current state of repositories of open educational resources (ROER) in higher education at international level. It analyses a series of educational indicators to determine whether ROER can meet the specific needs of the education context, and to clarify understanding of the reuse of open educational resources (OER) provided by ROER. The aim of the study is to assess ROER by combining these two perspectives, and to form a basis for discussion among the universities that are responsible for these repositories. The method was based on content analysis and consisted of two phases: an exploration of international sources, and an analysis of 110 ROER using the proposed set of indicators. The results focus on data from the analysis of ROER websites and some models of good practices. They are presented according to three core dimensions for evaluating ROER: general factors to establish types of ROER, a focus on drivers for OER reuse, and a focus on educational aspects. It was found that most of the ROER that included one or more of the proposed reuse indicators were created exclusively for educational resources. Educational aspects are not yet firmly embedded into ROER. The few repositories that seem to have successfully included them are those that provide other educational metadata and use educational standards. Gema Santos-HermosaNúria Ferran-FerrerErnest AbadalAthabasca University Pressarticlerepositoriesopen educational resourcesOERevaluationreusehigher educationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 18, Iss 5 (2017)
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description	This article provides an overview of the current state of repositories of open educational resources (ROER) in higher education at international level. It analyses a series of educational indicators to determine whether ROER can meet the specific needs of the education context, and to clarify understanding of the reuse of open educational resources (OER) provided by ROER. The aim of the study is to assess ROER by combining these two perspectives, and to form a basis for discussion among the universities that are responsible for these repositories. The method was based on content analysis and consisted of two phases: an exploration of international sources, and an analysis of 110 ROER using the proposed set of indicators. The results focus on data from the analysis of ROER websites and some models of good practices. They are presented according to three core dimensions for evaluating ROER: general factors to establish types of ROER, a focus on drivers for OER reuse, and a focus on educational aspects. It was found that most of the ROER that included one or more of the proposed reuse indicators were created exclusively for educational resources. Educational aspects are not yet firmly embedded into ROER. The few repositories that seem to have successfully included them are those that provide other educational metadata and use educational standards.
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title	Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects
title_short	Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects
title_full	Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects
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title_full_unstemmed	Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects
title_sort	repositories of open educational resources: an assessment of reuse and educational aspects
publisher	Athabasca University Press
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Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects

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