scholarly journals Unveiling the Relationship between the Use of Open Educational Resources and the Adoption of Open Teaching Practices in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Nascimbeni ◽  
Daniel Burgos
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
Open Content

The goal of this paper is to advance the understanding of the way university educators currently adopt open educational practices (OEP) by analyzing the relation between the use of open educational resources (OER) and the implementation of open teaching practices. The results are based on data collected through an online survey among 724 university educators. Depending on the actual use of OER and open teaching practices by the survey respondents, we have categorized them along a scale that goes from “novice” to “expert”, and we analyzed the data to evaluate their use of OER and their adoption of open teaching practices, looking for relationships between the two phenomena. The main finding of this paper, which confirms the latest research findings from the open education community, is that a strong relationship exists between the two dimensions: The more an educator uses OER, the more he will probably adopt open teaching practices, and vice versa. These results are discussed with a view to use this virtuous circle between the use of open content and adoption of open teaching as a way to build generalized open education capacity among universities’ teaching staff.

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 Open Educational Resources and Practices in China: A Systematic Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 4867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Tlili ◽  
Ronghuai Huang ◽  
Ting-Wen Chang ◽  
Fabio Nascimbeni ◽  
Daniel Burgos
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Paris Declaration ◽  
Current State ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Open Educational Practices

The concepts of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP), regarded as two pillars of the broader open education movement, have been evolving since the concept of OER was first coined in the 2012 Paris Declaration. Several research studies have been conducted to investigate the impacts of OER and OEP adoption and implementation in universities. However, most of those studies have focused on western and developed countries, and little information is known about developing countries, especially Asian ones. Particularly, China was one of the first Asian countries to adopt open education and its related strategies following the MIT OpenCourseWare conference in Beijing in 2003. This study conducts a systematic literature review to investigate the current state of the art of OER and OEP in China. The findings show that several governmental, organizational, and institutional initiatives have been launched to facilitate OER adoption in China. They also show that while several OEPs have been implemented, there is still a continuous need to work on these practices and further investigate their impacts on learning outcomes and behaviors, as no current reviewed study has done so. Finally, a generic framework of OER and OEP challenges is presented along with recommendations to further enhance the adoption of OER and OEP in China.

scholarly journals Share knowledge, participate in open education and create oer

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Nobre
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Pedagogical Design ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Open Educational Practices

This article focus on the presentation of a curricular unit of an online master's course and its innovative pedagogical design: share, participate in Open Education and its integration of Open Educational Resources towards an opening movement for knowledge democratization. Thus, are analyzed pedagogical strategies and their impact in students learning process to determine the importance of this movement for an effective and successful learning process. Based on the perspectives of teachers and students(Portuguese, Brazilian and Africans), in order to understand the dynamics of using and sharing online resources in their pedagogical practices, we signal the need to develop innovative open educational practices from the point of view of (co) authorship for the integration of Open Educational Resources in online education and we highlight the students' products resulting from this process and reveal the achievements that this philosophy can reach.

scholarly journals The pedagogical enhancement of open education: An examination of problem-based learning

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Gurell ◽  
Yu-Chun Kuo ◽  
Andrew Walker
Keyword(s):  
Critical Mass ◽  
Test Validity ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
Open Content ◽  
Open Materials

Open education, as embodied in open educational resources (OER) and OpenCourseWare (OCW), has met and dealt with several key problems. The movement now has a critical mass of available content. Leveraging no small amount of funding and associated development, open education has the tools to collect, disseminate, and support the discovery of open materials. Now that the foundation for openness has been laid, practitioners are experimenting with new kinds of education and pedagogies associated with open content (Weller, 2009; di Savoia, 2009). Problem-based learning is one of many progressive pedagogies that might be combined with open education. This paper defines problem-based learning in the context of open education. Unique challenges are presented and discussed alongside possible solutions, realistic limitations, and calls for implementation in the future to test validity.

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.

scholarly journals Systematic Literature Review zu Open Educational Practices (OEP) in der Hochschule im europäischen Forschungskontext

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (Research and OER) ◽  
pp. 19-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Bellinger ◽  
Kerstin Mayrberger
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Open Educational Practices

Open Educational Practices (OEP) erscheinen in der Debatte um Openness im Bildungskontext und in Verbindung mit Open Educational Resources (OER) trotz einer nachweislichen Verbindung als noch relativ unterrepräsentiert. So wird hier der Annahme gefolgt, dass es aus theoretischer, empirischer wie diskursiver Perspektive notwendig erscheint für eine Kultur des Teilens und weiter eine offene Bildung im Sinne von Open Education und Open Pedagogy, die sich in Variationen von OEP manifestieren, zu sensibilisieren. Auf Grund der Bedeutung von OEP für den derzeitigen Transformationsprozess im Hochschulkontext unter den Bedingungen der Digitalisierung liefert der Beitrag einen systematischen Überblick zu Forschungsarbeiten zu OEP. Dabei findet eine Orientierung entlang der übergreifenden Fragestellung, in welchen Zusammenhängen und unter welchen Fragestellungen OEP im Kontext Hochschule erforscht werden und mit welchem Begriffsverständnis gearbeitet wird, statt. Das Ergebnis des Literature Reviews zeigt, dass in den Forschungsarbeiten ein variantenreiches Verständnis von OEP thematisiert wird. In Abhängigkeit dessen wie das Verhältnis der Praktiken der Subjekte und die Praxis jeweils gefasst werden, lassen sich vier Dimensionen einer OEP im Kontext von Openness identifizieren. Der Beitrag plädiert daher für eine begriffliche Schärfung von OEP im jeweils spezifischen Verwendungszusammenhang. Die Autorinnen forcieren dabei eine praxistheoretische Perspektive. Es wird argumentiert, dass ein praxistheoretischer Zugang es ermöglicht, offene Bildungspraktiken für den Hochschulkontext theoretisch zu fundieren und empirisch zu untersuchen, um damit einen Beitrag zur zeitgemässen Mediendidaktik respektive Medienpädagogik leisten zu können.

scholarly journals Awareness, attitudes and participation of teaching staff towards the open content movement in one university

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Reed
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Open Content

This research investigates the current awareness of, and participation in, the open content movement at one UK institution for higher education. The open content movement and the open educational resources can be seen as potential methods for reducing time and cost of technology-enhanced learning developments; however, its sustainability and, to some degree, its success are dependent on critical mass and large-scale participation. Teaching staff were invited to respond to a questionnaire. Respondents (n59) were open to the idea of sharing their own content and, similar to other studies, demonstrated existing practices of sharing resources locally amongst colleagues; however, there was little formal, large-scale sharing using suitable licenses. The data gathered concurs with other research suggesting a lack of awareness to the Creative Commons licenses as well as a lack of participation in large open educational resource repositories.Keywords: open educational resources; staff attitudes; sustainability(Published: 22 October 2012)Citation: Research in Learning Technology 2012, 20: 18520 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v20i0.18520

scholarly journals Eine Frage der Qualität – Qualitätsforderungen an Open Educational Resources in Schule und Hochschule

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (Offenheit in Lehre und Forschung) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Jane Brückner
Keyword(s):  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open Education

Die Nutzung und Bereitstellung von Open Educational Resources (OER) sind mit vergleichsweise hohen Unsicherheiten und Herausforderungen verbunden, die in der deutschen Bildungslandschaft zu einem erhöhten Bedarf an Qualitätsausweis für freie Bildungsmaterialien führen. Die Debatte um diese vermeintlich geringer-wertigen Unterrichtsmaterialien reisst nicht ab und qualitätssuggerierende Entwicklungen begleiten die Nutzung von OER in der Schulpraxis: Verlage und Hochschulen geben cc-lizenziertes Material an die Lehrkräfte in allen Bildungsbereichen, Plattformen für OER versuchen Qualitätsnachweise über Nutzerbewertungen, Bildungsinstitutionen entwerfen Qualitätskriterienmodelle für OER. Bei allen Unternehmungen dem Bedarf an Qualitätssicherung und Qualitätsausweisen nachzukommen, wird vernachlässigt, dass gerade OER und die konsequente Praxis von Open Education die Nutzer als autonome, kreative und kompetente Lehrenden und Lernenden versteht. Vor diesem Hintergrund steht ein kritisches Hinterfragen der aktuellen Implikationen des verwendeten Qualitätsbegriffes aus, sowie des Beteiligtenkreises für den Aushandlungsprozess von OER-Qualität.

scholarly journals Web Strategies for the Curation and Discovery of Open Educational Resources

Open Praxis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivien Rolfe
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
The Uk

For those receiving funding from the UK HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resource Programme (2009–2012), the sustainability of project outputs was one of a number of essential goals. Our approach for the hosting and distribution of health and life science open educational resources (OER) was based on the utilisation of the WordPress.org blogging platform and search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques to curate content and widen discovery.This paper outlines the approaches taken and tools used at the time, and reflects upon the effectiveness of web strategies several years post-funding. The paper concludes that using WordPress.org as a platform for sharing and curating OER, and the adoption of a pragmatic approach to SEO, offers cheap and simple ways for small-scale open education projects to be effective and sustainable.

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