An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER
| dc.contributor.author | Cox, Glenda | |
| dc.contributor.author | Trotter, Henry | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-20T08:04:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-07-20T08:04:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-06-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Cox, G., & Trotter, H. (2017). An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER. <i>Open Praxis</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24793 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Cox, Glenda, and Henry Trotter "An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER." <i>Open Praxis</i> (2017) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24793 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cox, G. & Trotter, H. An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER. Open Praxis, 9(2), 151-171. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Cox, Glenda AU - Trotter, Henry AB - 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. DA - 2017-06-01 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Open Praxis LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2017 T1 - An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER TI - An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24793 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24793 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Cox G, Trotter H. An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER. Open Praxis. 2017; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24793. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Open Praxis | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.source | Open Praxis | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | https://openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis | |
| dc.title | An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.subject.keywords | OER adoption | en_ZA |
| uct.subject.keywords | OER factors | en_ZA |
| uct.subject.keywords | motivation | en_ZA |
| uct.subject.keywords | OER readiness | en_ZA |
| uct.subject.keywords | institutional culture | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |