Discoverability of OER: The Case of Language OER

Perifanou, Maria; Economides, Anastasios A.

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-3930-2_5

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“…However, OER have not spread widely across the world due to several obstacles. One main obstacle is the difficulty to find quality and suitable OER for a specific educational objective, educational level, students' profile, teaching method, and other prerequisites (e.g., [4,5,7,8,13,14,24,26,28,29,33,34,41].…”

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“…So, a teacher or a student looking for quality OER to satisfy a specific educational need has to explore many different ROER. However, each ROER has a different structure and describes differently its curated OER from other ROER [33,34]. Despite the existence of such a high variety of ROER, little is known about their characteristics and their use by visitors such as educators, authors, researchers, librarians, learners, administrators, managers, policy makers, and others.…”

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Analyzing repositories of OER using web analytics and accessibility tools

Perifanou

Economides

2022

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Open Educational Resources (OER) provide learning opportunities for all. Usually, OER and links to OER are curated in Repositories of OER (ROER) for open access and use by anyone, including people with disabilities, at any place at any time. This study analyzes the reputation/ authoritativeness, usage, and accessibility of thirteen popular ROER for teaching and learning using three Web Analytics and five Web Accessibility tools. A high difference among the ROER was observed in almost every metric. Millions of users visit some of these ROER every month and on average stay 2–26 min per visit and view 1.1–8.5 pages per visit. Although in many ROER most of their visitors come from the country where the ROER hosting institute operates, other ROER (such as DOER, MIT OCW, and OpenLearn) have managed to attract visitors from all over the world. In some ROER, their visitors come directly to their website while in a few other ROER visitors are coming after visiting a search engine. Although most ROER are accessible by users with disabilities, the Web Accessibility tools revealed several errors in few ROER. In most ROER, less than one third of the traffic is coming from mobile devices although almost everyone has a mobile phone nowadays. Finally, the study makes suggestions to ROER administrators such as interconnecting their ROER, collaborating, exchanging good practices (such as Commons and MIT OCW), improving their website accessibility and mobile-optimized design, as well as promoting their ROER to libraries, educational institutes, and organizations.

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Analyzing repositories of OER using web analytics and accessibility tools

Perifanou

Economides

2022

Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…Though development and research on OER have increased and have shown to be of benefit to students, many STEM fields, including engineering, lack widely applicable OER textbooks [18]. In certain cases, the seemingly simple task of finding OER that are suitable turns out to be the biggest challenge [19]. Creating OER that can effectively fill these gaps in resources is also a challenging task.…”

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The Role of Libraries in Collaborative OER Development

Boyer,

Wiitablake,

2022 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Her dissertation research focuses on undergraduate student interest and perceptions, in particular, the perceptions of and interest in the geosciences from students from traditionally minoritized groups. As a graduate research assistant, Leah has worked on designing and assessing virtual reality field experiences for introductory geology courses and is currently involved with educational research focused on the collaborative development of robotics textbooks as open educational resources.

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Repositories of Open Textbooks for Higher Education: A Worldwide Overview

Perifanou¹,

Economides²

2023

Future Education and Learning Spaces

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Discoverability of OER: The Case of Language OER

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Analyzing repositories of OER using web analytics and accessibility tools

Analyzing repositories of OER using web analytics and accessibility tools

The Role of Libraries in Collaborative OER Development

Repositories of Open Textbooks for Higher Education: A Worldwide Overview

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