Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities
<p>This paper is the second in a series of three with a common goal to present a fair OER picture for Sub-Saharan Africa, represented by large-scale studies in three countries: Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. This paper examines a deliberate selection of four Ghanaian universities with randoml...
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| author | Judith Pete Fred Mulder Jose Dutra Oliveira Neto Kathleen Ludewig Omollo |
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| description | <p>This paper is the second in a series of three with a common goal to present a fair OER picture for Sub-Saharan Africa, represented by large-scale studies in three countries: Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. This paper examines a deliberate selection of four Ghanaian universities with randomly sampled students and lecturers. Distinct questionnaires for students and the lecturers have been used, which generated a response from in total 818 students and 38 lecturers. The major outcomes based on the empirical data are: (i) there is a significant digital differentiation among lecturers and students at technical versus comprehensive universities in terms of their proficiency and internet accessibility; and (ii) the awareness and appreciation of the OER concept and open licensing is low but from the actual variety and types of processing by respondents of educational resources (not necessarily open) there is a preparedness for openness for the future.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f61777dd575643b6bf2d1976d0d7a3b22023-03-01T21:21:15ZengInternational Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)Open Praxis1369-99972304-070X2018-12-0110440542110.5944/openpraxis.10.4.91731Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian UniversitiesJudith Pete0Fred Mulder1Jose Dutra Oliveira Neto2Kathleen Ludewig Omollo3Tangaza University College, Catholic University of Eastern AfricaEmeritus UNESCO/ICDE Chair in OER at the Open University of The NetherlandsUniversity of Sao PauloFormer Project Manager for the African Health OER Network, ZA; Ann Arbor, University of Michigan<p>This paper is the second in a series of three with a common goal to present a fair OER picture for Sub-Saharan Africa, represented by large-scale studies in three countries: Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. This paper examines a deliberate selection of four Ghanaian universities with randomly sampled students and lecturers. Distinct questionnaires for students and the lecturers have been used, which generated a response from in total 818 students and 38 lecturers. The major outcomes based on the empirical data are: (i) there is a significant digital differentiation among lecturers and students at technical versus comprehensive universities in terms of their proficiency and internet accessibility; and (ii) the awareness and appreciation of the OER concept and open licensing is low but from the actual variety and types of processing by respondents of educational resources (not necessarily open) there is a preparedness for openness for the future.</p>https://openpraxis.org/articles/31educational resourcesopen educational resources (oer)ictdifferentiationaccessusesharinguniversities in ghanastudentslecturersopen education |
| spellingShingle | Judith Pete Fred Mulder Jose Dutra Oliveira Neto Kathleen Ludewig Omollo Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities Open Praxis educational resources open educational resources (oer) ict differentiation access use sharing universities in ghana students lecturers open education |
| title | Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities |
| title_full | Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities |
| title_fullStr | Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities |
| title_short | Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities |
| title_sort | differentiation in access to and the use and sharing of open educational resources among students and lecturers at technical and comprehensive ghanaian universities |
| topic | educational resources open educational resources (oer) ict differentiation access use sharing universities in ghana students lecturers open education |
| url | https://openpraxis.org/articles/31 |
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