Trust in materials: Library workers’ adoption and adaptation of open educational resources

Mattern, Eleanor; Vasudevan, Veena; Gunn, Chelsea; Ghilani, Jessica; Monk, Elizabeth

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Title

Trust in materials: Library workers’ adoption and adaptation of open educational resources

Author(s)

• Mattern, Eleanor
• Vasudevan, Veena
• Gunn, Chelsea
• Ghilani, Jessica
• Monk, Elizabeth

Issue Date

2024-10-16

Keyword(s)

• trust
• reuse
• OER
• instruction
• Information use
• Pedagogy
• Academic libraries
• Curriculum
• User interfaces

Abstract

This paper reports on an exploration of library workers’ perceptions of open educational resources (OER) and the characteristics that support adoption. Library workers play important roles in connecting educators to relevant OER and in developing OER that are used in library instruction and library and information science (LIS) education. In this focus group study, we investigated the characteristics and qualities of OER that library workers identify as essential in supporting adoption, including trustworthiness of OER, examples and stories of use, adaptability of materials, modular organization, and clear metadata. This paper overviews these characteristics and offers recommendations for library workers and library and information science faculty who are developing OER.

Publisher

Association for Library and Information Science Education

Series/Report Name or Number

Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2024

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

• Conference Paper
• Presentation

Language

eng

Handle URL

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/130763

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1652

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• Copyright 2024 Eleanor Mattern, Veena Vasudevan, Chelsea Gunn, Jessica Ghilani, Elizabeth Monk
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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