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

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Great resourse Cable
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Hot diggity! Thank you Cable.

Jenni

On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 10:08:03 AM UTC-4, Cable Green wrote:
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/280738542.html

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:
[Opening the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014]<http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum2014.pdf>

  *   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.

The report is available for download:

  *   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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