An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER
<p>This paper examines three new tools – a framework, an heuristic and a lens – for analysing lecturers’ adoption of OER in higher educational settings. Emerging from research conducted at the universities of Cape Town (UCT), Fort Hare (UFH) and South Africa (UNISA) on why lecturers adopt – or...
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| description | <p>This paper examines three new tools – a framework, an heuristic and a lens – for analysing lecturers’ adoption of OER in higher educational settings. Emerging from research conducted at the universities of Cape Town (UCT), Fort Hare (UFH) and South Africa (UNISA) on why lecturers adopt – or do not adopt – OER, these tools enable greater analytical insights at the institutional and cross-institutional level, and hold the potential for generic global application. The framework – the OER Adoption Pyramid – helps distinguish and compare the factors shaping lecturers’ OER adoption which are both immediate (over which they have personal control) and remote (over which they have less or no control). The heuristic – the OER Readiness Tables – derives from the Pyramid and provides a visual representation of the institutions’ obstacles and opportunities for OER engagement. The lens – of “institutional culture” – nuances these comparisons so that the analysis remains attentive to granular, idiosyncratic variables shaping OER decisions. We believe this research will have value for scholars interested in researching OER adoption, and institutions interested in promoting it.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dea9d4e35f86437392947cf50dc3a88c2023-03-01T21:21:15ZengInternational Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)Open Praxis1369-99972304-070X2017-04-019215117110.5944/openpraxis.9.2.571356An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OERGlenda Cox0Henry Trotter1Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape TownCentre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town<p>This paper examines three new tools – a framework, an heuristic and a lens – for analysing lecturers’ adoption of OER in higher educational settings. Emerging from research conducted at the universities of Cape Town (UCT), Fort Hare (UFH) and South Africa (UNISA) on why lecturers adopt – or do not adopt – OER, these tools enable greater analytical insights at the institutional and cross-institutional level, and hold the potential for generic global application. The framework – the OER Adoption Pyramid – helps distinguish and compare the factors shaping lecturers’ OER adoption which are both immediate (over which they have personal control) and remote (over which they have less or no control). The heuristic – the OER Readiness Tables – derives from the Pyramid and provides a visual representation of the institutions’ obstacles and opportunities for OER engagement. The lens – of “institutional culture” – nuances these comparisons so that the analysis remains attentive to granular, idiosyncratic variables shaping OER decisions. We believe this research will have value for scholars interested in researching OER adoption, and institutions interested in promoting it.</p>https://openpraxis.org/articles/397oer adoptionoer factorsmotivationoer readinessinstitutional culture |
| spellingShingle | Glenda Cox Henry Trotter An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER Open Praxis oer adoption oer factors motivation oer readiness institutional culture |
| title | An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER |
| title_full | An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER |
| title_fullStr | An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER |
| title_full_unstemmed | An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER |
| title_short | An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER |
| title_sort | oer framework heuristic and lens tools for understanding lecturers adoption of oer |
| topic | oer adoption oer factors motivation oer readiness institutional culture |
| url | https://openpraxis.org/articles/397 |
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