Academics’ Intentions to Use Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Professional Development

Introduction: Open educational e-resources (OERs) are one of the informational resources that are openly available to all. Open educational e-resources provide learners with free access to high-quality educational content and materials. Learners should be able to use, read, adapt, and share these re...

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Main Authors: Karataş Erinç, Yılmaz Ayşe Bağrıacık, Karataş Serçin, Banyard Phil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2022-11-01
Series:Acta Educationis Generalis
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/atd-2022-0022
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Yılmaz Ayşe Bağrıacık
Karataş Serçin
Banyard Phil
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description Introduction: Open educational e-resources (OERs) are one of the informational resources that are openly available to all. Open educational e-resources provide learners with free access to high-quality educational content and materials. Learners should be able to use, read, adapt, and share these resources freely. In this study, we aimed to examine academics’ open educational e-resources usage intentions. We also tried to understand behavioral differences by collecting data from two different countries: Turkey and the United Kingdom.
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spelling doaj.art-f854fe075f014ace92876f2fd679f38d2022-12-22T03:45:31ZengSciendoActa Educationis Generalis2585-74442022-11-01123274610.2478/atd-2022-0022Academics’ Intentions to Use Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Professional DevelopmentKarataş Erinç0Yılmaz Ayşe Bağrıacık1Karataş Serçin2Banyard Phil3Ankara University, Ankara, TurkeyAydin Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, TurkeySerçin Karataş, Gazi University, Ankara, TurkeyPhil Banyard, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UKIntroduction: Open educational e-resources (OERs) are one of the informational resources that are openly available to all. Open educational e-resources provide learners with free access to high-quality educational content and materials. Learners should be able to use, read, adapt, and share these resources freely. In this study, we aimed to examine academics’ open educational e-resources usage intentions. We also tried to understand behavioral differences by collecting data from two different countries: Turkey and the United Kingdom.https://doi.org/10.2478/atd-2022-0022open educational resourceshigher educationacademics’ professional developmenteducational e-resources
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Academics’ Intentions to Use Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Professional Development
Acta Educationis Generalis
open educational resources
higher education
academics’ professional development
educational e-resources
title Academics’ Intentions to Use Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Professional Development
title_full Academics’ Intentions to Use Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Professional Development
title_fullStr Academics’ Intentions to Use Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Professional Development
title_full_unstemmed Academics’ Intentions to Use Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Professional Development
title_short Academics’ Intentions to Use Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Professional Development
title_sort academics intentions to use open educational resources oers in professional development
topic open educational resources
higher education
academics’ professional development
educational e-resources
url https://doi.org/10.2478/atd-2022-0022
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