A Comparative Study of National Infrastructures for Digital (Open) Educational Resources in Higher Education

Marin V. I., Bond M., Zawacki-Richter O., AYDIN C. H., Bedenlier S., Bozkurt A., ...Daha Fazla

OPEN PRAXIS, cilt.12, sa.2, ss.241-256, 2020 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 12 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5944/openpraxis.12.2.1071
  • Dergi Adı: OPEN PRAXIS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), EBSCO Education Source, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Directory of Open Access Journals, DIALNET
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.241-256
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: digital educational resources, comparative case study, digital infrastructures, digitalisation policies, digital transformation, open educational resources (OER), REPOSITORIES
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper reports on the first stage of an international comparative study for the project "Digital educational architectures: Open learning resources in distributed learning infrastructures-EduArc", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This study reviews the situation of digital educational resources (or (O)ER) framed within the digital transformation of ten different Higher Education (HE) systems (Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey and the United States). Following a comparative case study approach, we investigated issues related to the existence of policies, quality assurance mechanisms and measures for the promotion of change in supporting infrastructure development for (O)ER at the national level in HE in the different countries. The results of this mainly documentary research highlight differences and similarities, which are largely due to variations in these countries' political structure organisation. The discussion and conclusion point at the importance of understanding each country's context and culture, in order to understand the differences between them, as well as the challenges they face.