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Trust in Materials: Library Workers’ Adoption and Adaptation of Open Educational Resources

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper reports on an exploration of library workers’ perceptions of open educational resources (OER) and the characteristics that support adoption. Library workers play important roles in connecting educators to relevant OER and in developing OER that are used in library instruction and library and information science (LIS) education. In this focus group study, we investigated the characteristics and qualities of OER that library workers identify as essential in supporting adoption, including trustworthiness of OER, examples and stories of use, adaptability of materials, modular organization, and clear metadata. This paper overviews these characteristics and offers recommendations for library workers and library and information science faculty who are developing OER.

Source: Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference

DOI: 10.21900/j.alise.2024.1652

Authors: Eleanor Mattern, Veena Vasudevan, Chelsea Gunn, Jessica Ghilani, Elizabeth Monk

Institutions: University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

Language: English

Topic: Open Education and E-Learning

Subfield: Computer Science Applications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4403523099

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