OER on the Asian Mega Universities: Developments, Motives, Openness, and Sustainability

Autor/in	Farisi, Mohammad Imam
Titel	OER on the Asian Mega Universities: Developments, Motives, Openness, and Sustainability
Quelle	In: Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 14 (2013) 1, S.273-289 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1302-6488
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Web 2.0 Technologies; Sustainability; Educational Development; Institutional Characteristics; Content Analysis; Position Papers; Web Sites; Partnerships in Education; Stakeholders; Institutional Mission; Educational Objectives; Organizational Objectives; Open Source Technology; Knowledge Management; Asian Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Nachhaltigkeit; Bildungsentwicklung; Inhaltsanalyse; Positionspapier; Web-Design; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Business goal; Unternehmensziel; Wissensmanagement; Asia; Studies; Asienwissenschaft
Abstract	The OER movement originated and integrated into ODE developments. Mega Universities (MUs) are among the most important of ODE providers worldwide should be to be the primary organizations for providing access to OER. So far, however, in-depth studies on OER developments in the Asian MUs were very limited. This study focuses on the developments, motives, openness, and sustainability of OER at the six MUs official websites in Asia. Data were collected for six months using the documentation techniques and analyzed using web content or textual analyze. Results of the study shown, that: (1) OER developments on the Asian MUs' were an ongoing process, multiyear program, and developed into three characteristics: special projects or initiatives; uploading the existing learning resources collections on the Website; and by taken out-links to the centers of OER websites worldwide. Contents of OER are very rich, diverse in categories, forms, and organized integrally into "One Stop Window". The OER materials have developed by university as well as by joined with various parties of internal and external universities; (2) OER developments are based on three motives: the altruistic motivation of sharing, ego-boost motivation, and combination of both; (3) The OER openness for use or reuse by others can be classified into five categories: openness in the public domain; openness under provision by any license; openness under guarantee by government Laws, policies, missions or visions; openness under guarantee by universities policies, missions or visions; and openness because it was developed as a special initiative of the universities; and (4) Sustainability models that have been used by MUs to makes OER become viable, and stable for the long-term are institutional, governmental, workflow, user-centered, wiki, and social software models. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Anadolu University. Office of the Rector, Eskisehir, 26470, Turkey. Tel: +90-222-335-34-53; Fax: +90-222-335-34-86; e-mail: rektor@anadolu.edu.tr; e-mail: TOJDE@anadolu.edu.tr; Web site: http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10