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Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology to Investigate the Adoption of Open Educational Resources by Faculty Members

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One of the most important factors for the success of future education policies is the willingness of faculty members to engage in Open Educational Resources (OER) programs. An online survey distributed on 25 Saudi universities and 1969 received responses were investigated by SPSS 27. According to the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), an adapted model was used to analyze the social standing of OER adoption in Saudi universities. The main findings are: Performance expectancy and Expected effort had a positive impact on the intentions to use OER, but Social influence doesn’t influence the intention to use OER positively, and Facilitating conditions have no impact on increasing the chance of using OER. Furthermore, there is a global faculty member agreement that OER are extremely beneficial for teaching and research tasks. The study shows that faculties had to financially encourage faculty members to use and adopt OER, and had to spread the cooperative culture within departments in order to ensure the sustainability of OER adoption. Additionally, faculty members state that there are a few challenges such as understanding creative commons licenses and being familiar with the rights of OER users. The findings of this study could be a valuable resource for decision-makers coming up with solutions to improve the better sustainability of OER adoption.

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The authors would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research at Umm al-Qura University for supporting this work by Grant Code: 19-EDU-1-03-0001

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  1. Elearning Deanship and Distance Education, Umm al-Qura University KSA, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

    Lassaad Smirani

  2. College of Computer and Information Systems, Umm al-Qura Unirvesity KSA, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

    Jihane Boulahia

  3. InnoV’COM Lab, University of Carthage, Carthage, Tunisia

    Lassaad Smirani & Jihane Boulahia

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Smirani, L., Boulahia, J. Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology to Investigate the Adoption of Open Educational Resources by Faculty Members. Int. j. inf. tecnol. 14, 3201–3211 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-022-00918-9

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