Why Understanding the Use and Users of Open Education Matters
- ISBN: 0262033712
Abstract
"We all recognize that it is one thing to make high-quality content and tools widely available and another to identify the best strategies for integrating them into a critical mass of meaningful teaching and learning contexts. How (or if) materials are used and valued will vary by type of institution, the background and needs of faculty and students, the intellectual require- ments of the discipline, and the characteristics of the open knowledge collections themselves. Beyond the largely anecdotal, however, what do we really know about how these important variables interact with open education content? And how might such knowledge allow the OER community to better assess user demand for open educational (as well as other) digital resources? (...) Arguably, understanding the needs of faculty will be essential as we envision new technology-mediated aca- demic environments. To that end, we conducted an empirical University of California, Berkeley-based study of faculty in specifi c U.S. tertiary education milieus. In doing so, we uncovered disconnects between what a potential pool of faculty users of digital resources say they need in undergraduate education and what those who produce those resources imagine as an ideal state."
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