The OER Knowledge Cloud: Why Open Educational Resources Repositories Fail

Why Open Educational Resources repositories fail - Review of quality assurance approaches

Manouselis, Niko · Pawlowski, Jan · Clements, Kati

Published	July 2014
Type of work	6th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies: July 7-9, 2014
Conference	EDULEARN14 Proceedings Pages 929-939
Country	Spain

ABSTRACT

Regardless of the amount of open educational resources (OER) available, many learning object repositories LORs fail to attract active users and sustainable funding solutions. Previous studies indicate that quality of OER plays a significant role in the success of the repositories; however, there is a lack of systematic deeper understanding of this connection. In this qualitative study we interviewed 35 managers/developers of 27 national, thematic and federated LORs in regards of the LORs’ quality approaches and success. The key findings of this study show that comprehensive quality approach leads to success of the repository in most cases, the key instruments for quality assurance being expert and peer reviews. Contribution of this research is the review of LOR quality approaches. This study helps LOR developers to design sustainable quality assurance approaches.

Keywords

learning object repositories · open content · Open Educational Resources · quality assurance

Published at	Barcelona
ISSN	978-84-617-0557-3
Refereed	Yes
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