[Open-education] Opening the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014

Tue Nov 4 13:12:59 UTC 2014

Hot diggity! Thank you Cable.

Jenni

On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 10:08:03 AM UTC-4, Cable Green wrote:
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> http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html
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> http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/280738542.html
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> This report, funded by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett 
> Foundation with additional support from Pearson, examines the attitudes, 
> opinions, and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) among teaching 
> faculty in U.S. higher education. Some of the key findings: 
> [image: Opening the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher 
> Education, 2014] 
> <http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum2014.pdf>
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>    - Faculty are not very aware of open educational resources. Depending 
>    on the strictness of the awareness measure, between two-thirds and 
>    three-quarters of all faculty classify themselves as unaware on OER.
>    - Faculty appreciate the concepts of OER. When presented with the 
>    concept of OER, most faculty say that they are willing to give it a try.
>    - Awareness of OER is not a requirement for adoption of OER. More 
>    faculty are using OER than report that they were aware of the term OER. 
>    Resource adoption decisions are often made without any awareness of the 
>    specific licensing of the material, or its OER status.
>    - Faculty judge the quality of OER to be roughly equivalent to that of 
>    traditional educational resources. Among faculty who do offer an opinion, 
>    three-quarters rank OER quality as the same as or better than traditional 
>    resources.
>    - The most significant barrier to wider adoption of OER remains a 
>    faculty perception of the time and effort required to find and evaluate it. 
>    The top three cited barriers among faculty members for OER adoption all 
>    concern the discovery and evalua- tion of OER materials.
>    - Faculty are the key decision makers for OER adop- tion. Faculty are 
>    almost always involved in an adoption decision and — except for rare 
>    instances — have the primary role. The only exceptions are in a minority of 
>    two-year and for-profit institutions, where the administration takes the 
>    lead.
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> The report is available for download:
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>    - PDF version: Opening the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in 
>    U.S. Higher Education, 2014 (pdf) 
>    <http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum2014.pdf>
>    - e-Book version for Kindle (.mobi format): Opening the Curriculum 
>    (.mobi) 
>    <http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum.mobi>
>    - e-Book version for iPad or Nook (.epub format): Opening the 
>    Curriculum (.epub) 
>    <http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum.epub>
>    - Infographic: Opening the Curriculum Infographic 
>    <http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum2014infographic.pdf>
>
> *Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher 
> Education, 2014 *is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 
> International License.
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>
> Cable Green, PhD
> Director of Global Learning
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