Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities | Zendy

Judith Pete | Zendy; Fred Mulder | Zendy; José Dutra de Oliveira Neto | Zendy; Kathleen Ludewig Omollo | Zendy

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Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities

Author(s) -

Judith Pete,

Fred Mulder,

José Dutra de Oliveira Neto,

Kathleen Ludewig Omollo

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

open praxis

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2304-070X

pISSN - 1369-9997

DOI - 10.5944/openpraxis.10.4.917

Subject(s) - open educational resources , openness to experience , preparedness , open education , variety (cybernetics) , scale (ratio) , the internet , distance education , educational technology , higher education , psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , political science , geography , computer science , social psychology , cartography , artificial intelligence , world wide web , law

This paper is the second in a series of three with a common goal to present a fair OER picture for Sub-Saharan Africa, represented by large-scale studies in three countries: Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. This paper examines a deliberate selection of four Ghanaian universities with randomly sampled students and lecturers. Distinct questionnaires for students and the lecturers have been used, which generated a response from in total 818 students and 38 lecturers. The major outcomes based on the empirical data are: (i) there is a significant digital differentiation among lecturers and students at technical versus comprehensive universities in terms of their proficiency and internet accessibility; and (ii) the awareness and appreciation of the OER concept and open licensing is low but from the actual variety and types of processing by respondents of educational resources (not necessarily open) there is a preparedness for openness for the future.

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