Developing Institutional Open Educational Resource Repositories in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges

The introduction of open educational resources (OER) provides new opportunities for learners worldwide to access high-quality educational materials at the lowest cost. As a developing country, Vietnam is one of the countries that can most benefit from the OER movement. However, the concept of OER in...

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Autores principales:	Vi Truong, Tom Denison, Christian M. Stracke
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2021
Materias:	open educational resources OER institutional open educational resource repository development IOER Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4c76706b71f24f758811a7c2bfb034432021-11-24T22:29:48ZDeveloping Institutional Open Educational Resource Repositories in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges10.19173/irrodl.v23i1.55821492-3831https://doaj.org/article/4c76706b71f24f758811a7c2bfb034432021-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/5582https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The introduction of open educational resources (OER) provides new opportunities for learners worldwide to access high-quality educational materials at the lowest cost. As a developing country, Vietnam is one of the countries that can most benefit from the OER movement. However, the concept of OER in Vietnam remains little known to the public, with few institutional OER repositories (IOER) developed. This study contends that IOER development in Vietnam is complicated and constrained by many contextual difficulties; it was designed to explore the challenges and opportunities. After a literature review, 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted with relevant stakeholders. Building on the findings from the literature, this study found that IOER development in Vietnam is constrained by five categories of challenges: (a) technological and infrastructure matters, (b) economic constraints, (c) sociocultural characteristics, (d) pedagogical concerns, and (e) legal limitations. Many of these challenges are not identified in the literature and provide insights into potential implications and solutions for future IOER in Vietnam and other countries. Vi TruongTom Denison Christian M. StrackeAthabasca University Pressarticleopen educational resourcesOERinstitutional open educational resource repository developmentIOERSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 22, Iss 4 (2021)
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description	The introduction of open educational resources (OER) provides new opportunities for learners worldwide to access high-quality educational materials at the lowest cost. As a developing country, Vietnam is one of the countries that can most benefit from the OER movement. However, the concept of OER in Vietnam remains little known to the public, with few institutional OER repositories (IOER) developed. This study contends that IOER development in Vietnam is complicated and constrained by many contextual difficulties; it was designed to explore the challenges and opportunities. After a literature review, 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted with relevant stakeholders. Building on the findings from the literature, this study found that IOER development in Vietnam is constrained by five categories of challenges: (a) technological and infrastructure matters, (b) economic constraints, (c) sociocultural characteristics, (d) pedagogical concerns, and (e) legal limitations. Many of these challenges are not identified in the literature and provide insights into potential implications and solutions for future IOER in Vietnam and other countries.
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title	Developing Institutional Open Educational Resource Repositories in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges
title_short	Developing Institutional Open Educational Resource Repositories in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges
title_full	Developing Institutional Open Educational Resource Repositories in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges
title_fullStr	Developing Institutional Open Educational Resource Repositories in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges
title_full_unstemmed	Developing Institutional Open Educational Resource Repositories in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges
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Developing Institutional Open Educational Resource Repositories in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges

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