Participation in OER Creation: A Trajectory of Values

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https://doi.org/10.18357/otessaj.2021.1.2.13

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open pedagogy, open educational practice, open educational resources, open education

Abstract

This paper provides an analysis of interviews with seven faculty members who engaged in creating Open textbooks funded by government grants at a university in Canada in 2018. Using four values—access and equity, community and connection, agency and ownership, and risk and responsibility—identified by Sinkinson (2018), McAndrew (2018), and Keyek-Fransen (2018), we traced the ways in which university faculty members’ understanding of Open changed through the process of Open Educational Resource creation. As a teaching support-focused unit, we explore ways to provide our faculty and instructors with meaningful opportunities to develop their Open pedagogy. These findings reconceive the way that Open Educational Practice can be promoted at our University and others. Instead of focusing solely on OER creation, our faculty started engaging in thinking through the different conceptions of Open educational practice and identifying which concepts resonated with them. By reframing the ways in which faculty thought about Open Educational Practices, we have been better able to address the ways in which we support them.

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2021-12-21

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Meger, E., Schwartz, M., & Freeman, W. (2021). Participation in OER Creation: A Trajectory of Values. The Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association Journal, 1(2), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.18357/otessaj.2021.1.2.13

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