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Removing the Barriers to Adoption of Social OER Environments

Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2015
Despite the opportunities and benefits of OER, research and practice has shown how the OER repositories have a hard time in reaching an active user-base. The opportunities of experience exchange and simple feedback mechanisms of social software have been realized for improving the situation and many are basing or transforming their OER offerings ...
Thomas Richter, Jussi P. P. Jokinen, Henri Pirkkalainen   +2 more
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OER by Discipline Guide: Reducing Barriers and Building Sustainability for OER Adoption

2023
Open Education Global Conference 2023 (Edmonton, Alberta) session description. Are you looking for a new approach to supporting educators in finding OER to adopt into their courses? In this lightning talk (15 minutes), learn about the development of an OER by Discipline Guide introduced by a Canadian research institution as a service to help reduce ...
Adams, Sarah, Sillito, Savannah
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Crossing the boundaries through OER adoption: Considering open educational resources (OER) as boundary objects in higher education

Library and Information Science Research, 2022
Mark McBride, Sam Abramovich
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Sustainable Problem Solving: Reducing Barriers for OER Adoption

2023
Session outcomes and takeaways: By the end of this session, attendees should be able to… 1. Describe key barriers around adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) for educators in higher education. 2. Reflect on the service strategies used by Libraries and Cultural Resources for supporting the reduction of barriers to OER adoption. 3.
Adams, Sarah, Sillito, Savannah
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Research proposal for technology adoption in the oer ecosystem

2016 International Symposium on Computers in Education (SIIE), 2016
In the scientific literature of the past 15 years it can be found numerous research initiatives and experiences related to the adoption of new technologies in education. Technological innovations have been constant, often accompanied by educational innovations, but the pace of adoption of the same is not as intense as its development.
Manuel Caeiro
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The VLAB OER Experience: Modeling Potential-Adopter Student Acceptance

IEEE Transactions on Education, 2014
Virtual Labs (VLAB) is a multi-institutional Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative, exclusively focused on lab experiments for engineering education. This project envisages building a large OER repository, containing over 1650 virtual experiments mapped to the engineering curriculum.
Raghu Raman, Krishnashree Achuthan, Prema Nedungadi, Shyam Diwakar, Ranjan Bose   +4 more
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OER Adoption and Assessment: A Success Story at Kingsborough Community College ()

Open Journal of Leadership
Dorina Tila
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Open educational resource (OER) adoption in higher education: Challenges and strategies

2017 IEEE 6th International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2017
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching learning, and research resources that have been made available such that they can be used, shared, and modified freely. They have already had a significant impact on Higher Education (HE), and have great potential for providing further positive transformation.
Tianchong Wang, Dave Towey
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Facilitating Adoption of OERs in the Classroom with the Open Access Course Reserves

2019
With the Open Access Course Reserves, a place to collect and share course specific OA reading lists, faculty seeking to include OER in their courses can see how other teachers have replaced pricey textbooks with fully open reading lists. Librarians at the MGH Institute of Health Professions built the Open Access Course Reserves, a publicly available ...
Tarbet, Amanda, Bell, Jessica
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Lessons in Adopting OER in a Biology Course

Young Bae Kim is an Associate Professor at North Shore Community College, and also serves as the coordinator for the Biotechnology Program. He is a molecular cell biologist by training and teaches many courses in biological science areas. He has been an OER advocate and generated many his own no/low-cost educational materials over the last several ...
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