the student perspective of OER adoption

[dba...@ccsnh.edu]

Hi all,

On another OER list I read an interesting post this morning from an eLearning librarian in Calgary:

Hi everyone,

 

The following post caught my eye on an OER email list this morning, shared by an eLearning Librarian in Calgary:

"This past semester, we ran approximately 80 Communications classes with an OER PDF textbook.  Late in the semester, we surveyed the students about their use of and satisfaction with the textbook and the results were, well, lackluster.   The results seemed to show that a significant number of students didn’t know they were using an OER, they just thought it was an online book. They didn’t understand what an OER was and what they could do with it, therefore they didn’t see much value. After talking to the course coordinator, I realized that the faculty had not been given any specific information about the OER nor were they asked to talk to the students about this new OER textbook and how it could be used.

Lesson Learned: We can’t just add this new type of learning material to a course and assume that the students and faculty understand the value and significance of the change."

I thought this was interesting and worth thinking about and discussing -- what are you all doing do help students understand OER? 

All good things,

Deb

Deb Baker

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