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?