A qualitative investigation of faculty Open Educational Resource usage in the Washington Community and Technical College System: Models for support and implementation
Chae, Boyoung · Jenkins, Mark · Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges [corporate]
| Published | January 2015 |
| Periodical | Pages 1-38 |
| Publisher | Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges |
| Country | United States |
ABSTRACT
This report is based on interviews with 60 faculty in Washington’s community and technical college system which was built upon a previous state-wide survey with 770 faculty. Faculty were queried about:
* how and why they chose to use OER
* six benefits (including student savings)
* six challenges of using OER
* nine supports from college and statewide stakeholders that could help them to expand their OER use
| Keywords | OER · OER benefits · OER challenges · OER policy · qualitative research |
| Published at | Washington |
| Refereed | Does not apply |
| Rights | by/4.0/>Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
| URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4eZdZMtpULyZC1NRHMzOEhRRzg/view |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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