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Is it time to change the OER repositories role?

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Christo Dichev,

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JCDL '12: Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2232817.2232826

Published: 10 June 2012 Publication History

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The growing number of digital libraries providing open educational resources (OER) requires effective resource discovery mechanisms to optimally exploit the benefits of their openness. This paper discusses the OER repositories role and presents a study aimed at understanding how educators find OER by seeking answers to questions such as: what proportion of users seeking OER go directly to OER repositories and what proportion uses search engines or some other means and why. Understanding how and with what tools users discover and access resources can have an impact on the OER repositories strategic development.

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Perifanou MEconomides A(2021)Discoverability of OER: The Case of Language OERLudic, Co-design and Tools Supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education10.1007/978-981-16-3930-2_5(55-66)Online publication date: 31-Aug-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3930-2_5
Zghidi SHenda M(2020)Les ressources éducatives libres et les archives ouvertes dans le mouvement du libre accèsOpen Educational Resources and Open Archives in the Open Access Movement: An Educational Engineering and Scientific Research crossed analysisDistances et médiations des savoirs10.4000/dms.5347Online publication date: 28-Sep-2020
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Is it time to change the OER repositories role?
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
    2. Web services
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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JCDL '12: Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries

June 2012

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DOI:10.1145/2232817

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Perifanou MEconomides A(2021)Discoverability of OER: The Case of Language OERLudic, Co-design and Tools Supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education10.1007/978-981-16-3930-2_5(55-66)Online publication date: 31-Aug-2021
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Zghidi SHenda M(2020)Les ressources éducatives libres et les archives ouvertes dans le mouvement du libre accèsOpen Educational Resources and Open Archives in the Open Access Movement: An Educational Engineering and Scientific Research crossed analysisDistances et médiations des savoirs10.4000/dms.5347Online publication date: 28-Sep-2020
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Dicheva DDichev CSettle ASteinbach TBoisvert D(2015)CS/IT OERProceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/2808006.2808019(133-138)Online publication date: 29-Sep-2015
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