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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Open Educational Resources (OER)"”.
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Supporting lifelong learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) among diverse users: motivations for and approaches to learning with different OER
… 1) What motivates and influences learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) among different users, and 2) What role OER play in supporting lifelong learning among different users. The activities of key international organisations promoting lifelong learning as significant in the context of …
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The Perceived Value of Open Educational Resources (OER) by Francophone Linguistic Minority Students in a Post-Secondary Educational (PSE) Setting
… linguistic minority. French language academic resources are often more expensive, difficult to locate, and sometimes not available at all for niche subject areas. This often results in barriers to access learning materials. The unequal access to learning materials is an issue of equity and can …
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Die Open Educational Resources Bewegung – Optionen und Hürden für Lehrende an deutschen Hochschulen
Open Educational Resources (OER) oder freie Bildungsressourcen sind Ressourcen, die vom Urheber für den Lernprozess frei zugänglich und möglichst auch adaptierbar unter einer offenen Lizenz zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Die Arbeit klärt Konzept und Herkunft der Open Educational Resources und …
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Multimodality And The Sociality Of Literacies: Shaping First-Year Writing Students’ Literacies Through Multimodal Approaches
… Intentionally developing these literacies opens the door for first-year writing students to build upon social discourses in which they already engage and develop new modes of meaning making outside of solely alphabetic literacy. Composition textbooks today, both traditional and Open …
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Academic Librarian Experiences and Perceived Value of OER Professional Development: A Case Study
… is a constantly changing profession. Open education librarianship has developed as an area of specialization. Effective continuing professional development (CPD) for learning about open educational resources (OER) is needed to meet academic librarians' knowledge and training needs …
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Reuse and Repurposing of Online Digital Learning Resources within UK Higher Education: 2003-2010
… in reuse and repurposing of online digital resources within higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom (UK) over a period (2003-2010), when the emphasis of educational resource reuse and repurposing activity shifted from reusable learning objects (RLO) to open educational resources (OER). …
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The Impact of Adopting OER Videos as Supplementary Resources on Student Scores and Engagement
<p>Open educational resources (OER) have gained immense popularity in recent years, due to their ability to offer students and educators access to high-quality, free-to-use educational materials. The widespread use of OER has also been driven by the increasing availability of digital resources and …
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Explaining the relations between culture, structure and agency in lecturers' contribution and non-contribution to Open Educational Resources in a higher education institution
… initiatives to promote the sharing and use of Open Educational Resources (OER), sharing and use of OER is not a widely accepted practice in higher education. The reasons for lecturers' choices on whether or not to contribute OER are poorly understood. This thesis develops a theoretically-based …
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Educators' challenges and behavioural intention to adopt open educational resources : the case of Africa University, Zimbabwe
A review of the literature confirms that Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives have created free, openly licenced and high quality educational resources for anyone to use. However, these free, openly licensed and high quality educational resources appear to remain largely unused by Africa …
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Informationsdesign von Bildungsportalen : Struktur und Aufbau netzbasierter Bildungsressourcen
… an die aktuelle Diskussion um den Begriff "Open Educational Resources" (OER). Seit das Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) im April 2001 sein Unterrichtsmaterial zur freien Verfügung im Internet bereitzustellen begann, sind, zeitlich versetzt zu den verwandten Bewegungen Open Access …
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Interactive learning through open education resources for physical science Grade 11 learners
… medium are available. Technology is openly accepted and incorporated into most daily activities. To be specific, most people for a variety of activities, some work related, use smartphones and tablets. Yet, few learners use mobile devices for educational purposes in any subject, …