Engin Kursun, Tina Wilson, Patrick McAndrew & Kursat Cagiltay Evaluating the current status of OpenCourseWare in Turkish Tertiary Education: benefits, barriers and incentives
Jan 20, 2016
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 UniversityAtatürk 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 %--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
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
Demographic
Barriers
2I have / expect problems with protecting intellectual property rights of my own materials
4.23 1.67
9I have / expect problems with clearing intellectual property rights on other people’s materials
4.20 1.50
8Sharing course materials with everyone will increase plagiarism.
3.85 1.65
The greatest barrier for faculty members is the copyright issue
Barriers
3I haven’t got technical skills to develop digital materials.
2,51 1,57
4 I have not required hardware (computer, scanner etc.) 2,29 1,54
12The necessary technical infrastructure is not available at my university
2,93 1,69
Technology does not seem a barrier for faculty members
Barriers
10There is/will be no support from my university to publish course materials
3,30 1,63
11I don’t think my university has any policy about publishing/sharing course materials.
3,59 1,69
Faculty members are confused about admistrative support
Incentives
10 Course materials that I share are not altered in any way. 4,45 1,65
Resuability or remixing, repurposing!!!
15Course materials that I share should be published through a platform which is developed at my university.
4,50 1,46
9Course materials should be published on one platform in Turkey.
3,72 1,69
Tendency through distributed model
Incentives
11Course materials that I share should be protected against plagiarism.
5,23
1,22
13I should be informed about who uses my course materials.
4,65
1,53
14I should be informed when any changes are made to my materials.
5,28 1,16
Effects of copyright issues on incentives
Benefits
>4.88 consensus for possible benefits
12The possibility of benefiting from experienced instructors’ expertise
5.27 0.98
17Increase the amount of Turkish resources on the Internet
5.28 1.04
6It scaffolds inexperienced instructors to design their courses.
5,25 ,955
5It makes contribution to universities where educational resources are scarce.
5,23 1,03
The four benefits with the highest overall means
Future work
Thank you!Any comments or questions?