Share Paper: Faculty Enthusiasm Toward Compulsory Participation in an Institutional Open Educational Resources Repository

  1. Fredrick W. Baker III, University of South Alabama (doctoral student), United States
  2. Dan Surry, University of South Alabama, United States
Wednesday, March 27 6:15 PM-8:00 PM Grand Ballroom C

Abstract: Faculty members at higher education institutions were placed in a hypothetical scenario where their institution was requiring compulsory contribution of 100% of their personally developed course materials to be placed into an OER Repository. The participants were randomly assigned to one of six Creative Commons license type groups and all responded to the same scale on enthusiasm. The results were then discussed in nine interviews with a variety of faculty members. One way ANOVAs were run on the data using several different factors. While no significant main effect was found between the license type groups, several interesting differences were found ...