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Bridging Digital Readiness and Educational Inclusion: The Causal Impact of OER Policies on SDG4 Outcomes

open access: yesSustainability
This study examines the relationship between national open educational resource (OER) policies and Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) outcomes across 187 countries between 2015 and 2024, with particular attention to the moderating role of artificial intelligence (AI) readiness.
Ayse İlgün Kamanli   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

To what extent are faculty ready to participate in the OER movement?: The case of the Informatics School, UNA [PDF]

open access: yes2017 XLIII Latin American Computer Conference (CLEI), 2017
The success and sustainability of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement depends to a large extent on large-scale participation in the use and production of educational resources. The aim of this paper was to explore faculty staff knowledge and behaviors about OER with a focus on resource sharing attitudes.
Mayela Coto Chotto, Sonia Mora Rivera
openaire   +1 more source

Educator Perspectives and Intention to Adopt OER in Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools in Mauritius

open access: yesJournal of Learning for Development, 2023
There has been a growing interest in the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) to support educators to adapt, use, re-use, remix and recontextualise content for teaching and learning.
Yousra Banoor Rajabalee   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Qualitative Inquiry of K–12 Teachers’ Experience with Open Educational Practices: Perceived Benefits and Barriers of Implementing Open Educational Resources

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
Teachers in K–12 schools have shown an increasing desire for open educational resources (OER) to ensure all students can learn effectively. OER provide teachers with free access to open-licensed educational resources that they can retain, reuse, revise ...
Hengtao Tang
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring use and creation of open educational resources in higher education

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2013
The open educational resources initiative has been underway for over a decade now and higher education institutions are slowly adopting open educational resources (OER).
Ross Charles McKerlich   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER

open access: yesOpen Praxis, 2017
This paper examines three new tools – a framework, an heuristic and a lens – for analysing lecturers’ adoption of OER in higher educational settings.
Glenda Cox, Henry Trotter
doaj   +3 more sources

How to become an Open Educator?

open access: yesJe-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2020
The teachers in higher education (HE) could take a better advantage of the existing vast numbers open educational resources (OER) as well as invite their students in the process of sharing and knowledge co-creation, if they started using and adapting ...
Estela Daukšienė   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A needs assessment of ODL educators to determine their effective use of open educational resources

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2012
Nigeria has joined the global race of teaching and learning in a changing educational environment by adopting open and distance learning (ODL). Although it is a global trend, ODL poses some challenges at local levels, one of which is the untimely ...
Charity Akuadi Okonkwo
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring OER Awareness and Engagement of Academics from a Global South Perspective – a Case Study from Ghana

open access: yesZeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 2019
This study explored how academics in a Ghanaian university conceptualized and engaged with OER through a qualitative approach (in-depth interviews). “Access” emerged as the most dominant theme in how OER was conceptualized.
Frank Senyo Loglo, Olaf Zawacki-Richter
doaj   +1 more source

The human factor in the acceptance of OER [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
What determines the readiness of instructors to share open educational resources (OER)? To put that question more defensively: what stops them actually incorporating OER into their teaching? We approach that question from the perspective of change. Based on various sources, we identify a number of reasons why people are resistant to change (see for ...
Rubens, Wilfred, Didderen, Wim
openaire   +1 more source

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