1. Engin Kursun, Tina Wilson, Patrick McAndrew & Kursat Cagiltay Evaluating the current status of OpenCourseWare in Turkish Tertiary Education: benefits, barriers and incentives

2. Agenda  Turkish context  Why OER could be important?  Methods  Results  Future work

3. About us Middle East Technical University Atatürk University

4. Turkish OCW Consortium

5. Consortium member universities

6. 50 courses in 11 categories

7. 15 courses in 3 categories

10. 150 courses in 20 categories

11. 49 courses in 11 categories

12. Why OER could be important?  Lack of digital resources in Turkish language (HEC report, 2005)  Young population (25.5 %--0-15 age)*  New universities  Faculty member \Students;** State : 74 Student Private : 49 Student  Distance education is underdeveloped ** Ozan & Ozarslan, 2009 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_European_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_European_Union

13. 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

14. 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

15. The approach taken

16. Number of respondents

17. Demographic

19. Barriers 2 I have / expect problems with protecting intellectual property rights of my own materials 4.231.67 9 I have / expect problems with clearing intellectual property rights on other people’s materials 4.201.50 8 Sharing course materials with everyone will increase plagiarism. 3.851.65 The greatest barrier for faculty members is the copyright issue

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Benefits >4.88 consensus for possible benefits 12 The possibility of benefiting from experienced instructors’ expertise 5.270.98 17 Increase the amount of Turkish resources on the Internet 5.281.04 6 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

25. Future work

26. Thank you! Any comments or questions?