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Success Factors for the Use of Open Educational Resources - A Quantitative Survey with Students

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Digital Economy. Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation (ICDEc 2022)

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Digitalization is increasingly establishing numerous electronic teaching and learning innovations. Educational content is more often provided cooperatively, and interest in Open Educational Resources (OER) is growing. In terms of learning content and educational resources, the global development of the Open Education movement plays a key role. OER have gained increased attention in recent years due to their potential to reduce educational demographic, economic, and geographic boundaries and promote lifelong as well as personalized learning. For a successful implementation and use of OER, it is essential to identify conditions and success factors for stakeholders. These success factors will be assessed by means of a quantitative survey with students as the main user group. The aim is to identify factors from the perspective of learners that contribute to a willingness to use OER and increase acceptance. In addition, user-oriented recommendations for action will be derived by involving the students. For this purpose, 131 students from different German universities were asked by means of a quantitative online survey.

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Reinken, C., Kalinovich, A. (2022). Success Factors for the Use of Open Educational Resources - A Quantitative Survey with Students. In: Bach Tobji, M.A., Jallouli, R., Strat, V.A., Soares, A.M., Davidescu, A.A. (eds) Digital Economy. Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation. ICDEc 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 461. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17037-9_4

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