Adoption of open educational resources (OER) textbook for an introductory information systems course

Abstract

Open educational resources (OER) can make educational resources widely available to all students and educators for free; however, OER are still untried in many academic programmes in higher education. This article reports a case of adoption of an open access textbook for an introductory information systems course and discusses the process and suggestions of adoption of an OER textbook based upon the authors' own experience. The study indicates that the process of adoption of an open access textbook demands more intellectual work on the instructors' side in comparison with the adoption of a new commercial textbook. The study suggests that discipline-based communities of practice (CoP) can ease the workload problem in the process of adopting OER textbooks. The findings are important in encouraging the OER community to shift from project-based OER textbook development to discipline-based CoP for effective OER textbook adoption.

Designing open access, educational resources / Développer des ressources éducatives en libre accès

“…As noted by Bissell (2009), this means that others can "copy, distribute, display, perform, remix your copy-righted work, as long as they give you credit in the way you request" (p. 101). As noted by others (Wang & Wang, 2017), the marketing and promotion channels of OERs are limited. As such, OER authorship teams may need to consider creative ways to disseminate globally.…”

Impact of the Web Application for the Educational Process on the Compound Interest Considering Data Science

“…The educational institutions are modifying the curricula in order to develop the competences of students through the technological tools (Herodotou, Heiser, & Rienties, 2017;Marshalsey & Sclater, 2018). In particular, universities face the challenge of improving the teaching-learning conditions through the construction of new virtual spaces (Marcel, 2019;Wang & Wang, 2017).…”

Toward a Critical Approach for OER: A Case Study in Removing the ‘Big Five’ from OER Creation

“…While single case studies are not uncommon in the OER literature (for example: van der Merwe, 2013; Oliver, 2015; Wang & Wang, 2017;Alpi, Cross, Raschke, & Sullivan, 2017), relying on a single case is not without limitations (George & Bennet, 2004;Yin, 2016). Although the proximity to the work by the authors is a source of bias (Flyvberg, 2004), such closeness facilitates a more intimate understanding of the technology and processes involved in the creation of the materials that is necessary for the analysis that follows.…”