Understanding motivational system in open learning: Learners' engagement with a Traditional Chinese-based open educational resource system
Huang, Wenhao David and Wu, Chorng-Guang

PublishedDecember 2017
JournalEducational Technology Research and Development
Volume 65, Issue 6, Pages 1495–1521
PublisherSpringerLink

ABSTRACT
Learning has embraced the ``open'' process in recent years, as many educational resources are made available for free online. Existing research, however, has not provided sufficient evidence to systematically improve open learning interactions and engagement in open educational resource (OER) systems. This deficiency presents two challenges to the efficacy of OER systems. First, OER users might not take full advantage of open content since their interactions and experience with open learning systems cannot be optimized. Second, this lack of interaction could discourage the overall usage of OER systems, thus impeding their sustainability. This study addressed both issues by investigating technology acceptance levels among users of an OER portal, MyOOPS, in Taiwan. The study aimed to understand how open learners might be motivated to engage with OER systems. Based on 729 valid responses, the structural equation modeling revealed a lack of learning goal structure and irrelevance of self-efficacy in participants' motivational systems. The result prompted an urgent need to reexamine existing motivational design thinking in order to address emerging motivational challenges in open and goal-free learning environments supported by OER systems.

Keywords motivational design · OER · open learning · self-efficacy · technology acceptance

ISSN1556-6501
Other number6
RefereedYes
Rights© Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2017
DOI10.1007/s11423-017-9529-y
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