Implications of Open Access Repositories Quality Criteria and Features for Teachers’ TPACK Development

Abstract

This brief will explore how open access repositories are being developed and maintained, in order to provide, disseminate and promote the development of digital educational resources. The main objective is to analyse open access repositories quality criteria and features, and how these can improve teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) development. It is organized in six major sections. Section one addresses an historical overview of open access repositories. In section two the authors present the objectives and the methodology used in the present study. Sections three, four and five analyse namely (i) the prevalence of European Science Education open access repositories and teachers' perceptions of those same repositories, (ii) the most common European Science Education open access repositories features and their implications, and (iii) the impact of open access repositories usage on teachers' TPACK development. The last section focuses on the analyses of a selected open access repository [House of Sciences (originally Casa Das Ciências)], addressing its characteristics and features, the impact of social media features in digital educational resources (re)use, and the relationship between repository quality criteria and teachers' TPACK development. Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; Abbreviations; Abstract; About the Authors; Implications of Open Access Repositories Quality Criteria and Features for Teachers' TPACK Development; Open Access Repositories and Digital Educational Resources; Study Objectives and Methodology; Analysis of the Prevalence of European Science Education OAR and Teachers' Perceptions About Their Usage; Analysis of the Most Common OAR Features and Their Implications on Teachers' Usage and of the Existence of Social Features and Their Impacts. Analysis of the Implications of OAR Usage and Quality Criteria on Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Development Prevalence of European Science Education OAR and Teachers' Perceptions; Summary of Findings; Most Common European Science Education OAR Features and Their Implications; Summary of Findings; The Impact of OAR Usage in Teachers' TPACK Development; Summary of Findings; Results and Discussion; OAR Selection and Characterization; Summary of Findings; Impact of OAR Social Media Features on DER (re) use; Introduction to Science; Biology; Physics. Geology Mathematics; Chemistry; Summary of Findings; Relationship Between OAR Quality Criteria and Teachers' TPACK Development; OAR Visibility Dimension and Teachers' TPACK Development; OAR Policies Dimension and Teachers' TPACK Development; OAR Legal Aspects Dimension and Teachers' TPACK Development; OAR Metadata Dimension and Teachers' TPACK Development; OAR Logs and Statistics Dimension and Teachers' TPACK Development; Summary of Findings; Considerations; Final Remarks; References.