The four big reasons for contribution to open educational resources
| Published | March 2011 |
| Conference | Proceedings of Global Learn 2011, Global Learn, Mar 28, 2011 Edition 1, Volume 2011, Pages 1630-1638 |
| Publisher | Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) |
ABSTRACT
Volunteers contribute their efforts and time into organizations for different reasons and goals. These goals include strengthening their experience, developing networks, and enhancing their feelings. Similarly, programmers to Open Source Software (OSS) contribute programming to experience programming, develop their career future, and make software freely available for users. The rapid increase in contributing learning materials to Open Educational Resources (OERs) raised the question of what are the possible reasons that inspire OER contributors to write to open learning repositories. A web-based survey was published on Wikibooks website to assess the different the reasons for contribution to OERs. After applying the factor analysis on the sample (N=145), four reasons of contribution to OERs were emerged. These results were discussed in relation to Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) and motivation to open source/content.| Keywords | motivation · OER · OSS · Wikibooks |
| ISBN | 978-1-880094-85-3 |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | © 2011 AACE |
| URL | http://www.editlib.org/p/37379/ |
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