scholarly journals DESIGNING TEACHERS’ TRAINING ON ADOPTING OERS IN THEIR TEACHING

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Perifanou ◽  
◽  
Anastasios A. Economides ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Teachers Training

During the covid-19, it became apparent the imperative need for openly available digital educational resources to be used in education which has been shifted to Online Remote Teaching and Learning. It is important for teachers to be able to utilize Open Educational Resources (OERs) in education. This paper develops a framework for designing Teachers’ Training programmes on how to integrate OERs in the teaching practice. The framework consists from six modules: 1) Introduction to OERs, 2) Exploring & Evaluating existing OERs, 3) Using OERs, 4) Communicating & Sharing OERs, 5) developing OERs, and 6) Open Educational Practices (OEPs). The paper also defines OERs & OEPs competence. Finally, educational policy authorities may use this framework to design training programmes for teachers on how to integrate OERs in their teaching.

scholarly journals Challenges for implementing open educational resources by teachers in higher education

2018 ◽  
Vol 325 ◽  
pp. 479-490
Author(s):  
Roza Dumbraveanu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Teachers Training

Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are facing a number of problems during the last decades: the need to update the curricula to make it compatible with the similar ones from other national and European universities; demand to update the content and the pedagogical approach due to knowledge, technological and research development. Open Educational Resources (OER) might be a sound strategy for institutions to meet these challenges. At the same time OER are themselves one of the challenges that the teachers are faced with. OER could be implemented in courses in different ways, depending on the types of OER and the educational philosophy adopted by the teachers. The paper describes some challenges for implementing Open Educational Resources by teachers in Higher Education in Moldova: the level of awareness on availability and usage of OER; fair use matters; quality assurance of resources; pedagogical approaches for implementing OER into teaching and learning. The paper also grasps the issues of the digital divide that emerge when investigating these challenges. The judgment is based on the literature analysis and on the author’s teaching experience within courses for initial and continuous professional teachers’ training.

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

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hengtao Tang
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Personalized Instruction ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
K 12

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, remix, and redistribute for personalized instruction. Open educational practices (OEP) have been considered a pathway to reinforce the acceptance and readiness of K–12 teachers to use OER. This research thus showcases a qualitative study that investigates teachers’ experiences with OEP. This research explains K-12 teachers’ perceived benefits of implementing OER and also discusses their perceived barriers hindering OER usage in K–12 settings. The study also discusses the practical implications of integrating OER in K–12 curriculum.

scholarly journals Conceptualising OEP: A review of theoretical and empirical literature in Open Educational Practices

Open Praxis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Cronin ◽  
Iain MacLaren
Keyword(s):  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Open Content

Conceptualisations of open educational practices (OEP) vary widely, ranging from those centred primarily on the creation and use of open educational resources (OER) to broader definitions of OEP, inclusive of but not necessarily focused on OER. The latter, referred to in this paper as expansive definitions of OEP, encompass open content but also allow for multiple entry points to, and avenues of, openness. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature to outline how the concept of OEP has evolved historically. The paper aims to provide a useful synthesis of OEP literature for education researchers and practitioners.

scholarly journals Questions of quality in repositories of open educational resources: a literature review

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javiera Atenas ◽  
Leo Havemann
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
Open Educational Practice ◽  
Economic Barriers ◽  
Social Media Tools

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials which are freely available and openly licensed. Repositories of OER (ROER) are platforms that host and facilitate access to these resources. ROER should not just be designed to store this content – in keeping with the aims of the OER movement, they should support educators in embracing open educational practices (OEP) such as searching for and retrieving content that they will reuse, adapt or modify as needed, without economic barriers or copyright restrictions. This paper reviews key literature on OER and ROER, in order to understand the roles ROER are said or supposed to fulfil in relation to furthering the aims of the OER movement. Four themes which should shape repository design are identified, and the following 10 quality indicators (QI) for ROER effectiveness are discussed: featured resources; user evaluation tools; peer review; authorship of the resources; keywords of the resources; use of standardised metadata; multilingualism of the repositories; inclusion of social media tools; specification of the creative commons license; availability of the source code or original files. These QI form the basis of a method for the evaluation of ROER initiatives which, in concert with considerations of achievability and long-term sustainability, should assist in enhancement and development.Keywords: open educational resources; open access; open educational practice; repositories; quality assurance(Published: 24 July 2014)Citation: Research in Learning Technology 2014, 22: 20889 -http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v22.20889

Open Educational Resources Repositories

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Nadim Akhtar Khan ◽  
S. M. Shafi
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
Learning Object Repositories ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Geographical Locations

Open educational practices (OEP) are being enriched with many repositories to support teaching and learning activities in the modern era. Hence, the study aims to understand the trends of such repositories at global level by making analysis of 782 repositories categorized under learning object repositories (LOR) in directory of open access repositories (OpenDoar) with a focus on identifying open educational resources repositories (OERR) specifically possessing ‘open educational resources' for reuse, modification, and adaption. The authors looked into LOR under different facets like global distribution, operational status, interface language, etc. A total of 78 OERR identified from the LOR focus mainly on open teaching learning materials when their availability was ascertained by visiting each repository and browsing randomly through “collections and communities,” “content types,” “license statements,” etc. The results reveal that these hail predominantly from North America and Europe with different distribution patterns, while little visibility is evident among other geographical locations.

scholarly journals A Scoping Review on Open Educational Resources to Support Interactions of Learners with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-341
Author(s):  
Jewoong Moon ◽  
Yujin Park
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
Research And Design ◽  
Digital Learning Resources

This scoping review explored the trends in open educational resources (OER) that support the interactions of learners with disabilities and the challenges of supporting these interactions in such environments. Emerging OER and open educational practices allow learners to interact with digital learning resources in self-regulated learning. Since OER assume learners’ self-regulation, research has explored how to promote learner interactions to facilitate better engagement and motivation. Emerging research on OER-enabled pedagogy corroborate this trend. However, despite increasing interest in OER and open educational practices, few studies have demonstrated how OER support various types of interactions for learners with disabilities. Learners with disabilities are likely to experience challenges in interacting with OER due to their modality constraints. A comprehensive literature synthesis is essential to investigate the needs of learners with disabilities in their interactions in OER. In this study, we reviewed and synthesized existing research on how OER and open educational practices support the interactions of learners with disabilities across different OER platforms. Our findings suggest both research and design implications for future OER designs suited for learners with disabilities.

scholarly journals Improving K-12 Teachers’ Acceptance of Open Educational Resources by Open Educational Practices: A Mixed Methods Inquiry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hengtao Tang ◽  
Yu-Ju Lin ◽  
Yingxiao Qian
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Personalized Instruction ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
K 12

AbstractTeachers in K-12 settings increasingly demand instructional materials beyond textbooks to follow the upward momentum of personalized instruction. Especially during the outbreak of COVID-19, K-12 teachers are forced to quickly adapt to online teaching and thus have more difficulties of delivering personalized instruction in a relatively resource-restraint situation. Open educational resources (OER), allowing teachers to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute high-quality educational resources at no costs, can be a viable option for teachers. However, the acceptance of OER in K-12 education still remains low. Effective strategies are needed to reinforce teacher intention to adopt OER. This research showcased a two-phase sequential explanatory mixed method inquiry to investigate whether engaging K-12 teachers in open educational practices (OEP)—such as renewable assignments—increased their acceptance of OER. The quantitative phase, referring to the technology acceptance model (TAM), examined the change in factors influencing teachers’ acceptance of OER. The qualitative phase was followed up to provide supplementary perspectives of the quantitative findings. By integrating complementary findings, this research found that OEP increased teachers’ perceived ease of and self-efficacy towards using OER. Although teachers’ intention of implementing OER is not significantly improved, qualitative findings offered additional insights into the benefits of OEP in promoting OER usage and the recommended directions for future effort. Practical implications on improving teachers’ acceptance of OER in K-12 curriculum are discussed at the end.

scholarly journals Researching Open Educational Practices (OEP)

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (Offenheit in Lehre und Forschung) ◽  
pp. 108-121
Author(s):  
Franziska Bellinger ◽  
Patrick Bettinger ◽  
Valentin Dander
Keyword(s):  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Open Educational Practices

Offenheit an Hochschulen wird derzeit vor dem Hintergrund der Idee einer ‹Open Education› diskutiert, welche auf die Etablierung von Open Educational Practices (OEP) und Integration von Open Educational Resources (OER) im Lehr-/Lernalltag zielt. OEP und OER werden dabei nicht losgelöst voneinander thematisiert, sondern sind in den Debatten eng miteinander verwoben. Zu konstatieren ist jedoch, dass in theoretischen und empirischen Arbeiten zu OEP eine Erläuterung dessen, was unter offenen Bildungspraktiken zu verstehen ist, weitestgehend unbeantwortet bleibt. Ausgehend von der Feststellung, dass im Diskurs um OEP meist eine theoretische Reflexion des Praxisbegriffs ausgespart wird und ein programmatisch-idealistischer Duktus vorherrscht, wird im vorliegenden Beitrag für einen praxeologisch-diskursanalytisch informierten Zugang plädiert. Es wird argumentiert, dass OEP auf einer solchen Grundlage empirisch zugänglich gemacht werden können und so ein definitorisches Fundament geschaffen wird, das an aktuelle praxistheoretische Arbeiten anschliesst. Der Beitrag skizziert beispielhaft Anknüpfungspunkte mit Bezug zu aktuellen Problemfeldern, um die Potenziale der vorgestellten Forschungsperspektive aufzuzeigen.

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