Engin Kursun, Tina Wilson, Patrick McAndrew & Kursat Cagiltay Evaluating the current status of OpenCourseWare in Turkish Tertiary Education: benefits, barriers and incentives
Agenda Turkish context Why OER could be important? Methods Results Future work
About us Middle East Technical University Atatürk University
Turkish OCW Consortium
Consortium member universities
50 courses in 11 categories
15 courses in 3 categories
150 courses in 20 categories
49 courses in 11 categories
Why OER could be important? Lack of digital resources in Turkish language (HEC report, 2005) Young population (25.5 % age)* New universities Faculty member \Students;** State : 74 Student Private : 49 Student Distance education is underdeveloped ** Ozan & Ozarslan, 2009 *
Purpose and rationale of the research critical role of the faculty members lack of research in this area to understand faculty members’ perceptions inform decision makers and key stakeholders
Method Familiarisation with the OER context Pilot study pilot interviews expert review draft survey piloted Main Study Online survey Background questions barriers incentives Benefits Demographic
The approach taken
Number of respondents
Demographic
Barriers 2 I have / expect problems with protecting intellectual property rights of my own materials I have / expect problems with clearing intellectual property rights on other people’s materials Sharing course materials with everyone will increase plagiarism The greatest barrier for faculty members is the copyright issue
Barriers 3 I haven’t got technical skills to develop digital materials. 2,511,57 4 I have not required hardware (computer, scanner etc.) 2,291,54 12 The necessary technical infrastructure is not available at my university 2,931,69 Technology does not seem a barrier for faculty members
Barriers 10 There is/will be no support from my university to publish course materials 3,301,63 11 I don’t think my university has any policy about publishing/sharing course materials. 3,591,69 Faculty members are confused about admistrative support
Incentives 10Course materials that I share are not altered in any way.4,451,65 Resuability or remixing, repurposing!!! 15 Course materials that I share should be published through a platform which is developed at my university. 4,501,46 9 Course materials should be published on one platform in Turkey. 3,721,69 Tendency through distributed model
Incentives 11 Course materials that I share should be protected against plagiarism. 5,231,22 13 I should be informed about who uses my course materials. 4,651,53 14 I should be informed when any changes are made to my materials. 5,281,16 Effects of copyright issues on incentives
Benefits >4.88 consensus for possible benefits 12 The possibility of benefiting from experienced instructors’ expertise Increase the amount of Turkish resources on the Internet It scaffolds inexperienced instructors to design their courses. 5,25,955 5 It makes contribution to universities where educational resources are scarce. 5,231,03 The four benefits with the highest overall means
Future work
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