Students’ Perception of Utilizing Open Educational Resources (OER) for Textbook Creation

• In Event: ELT - Open Eductional Resouces and Digital Badges

Short Description

This proposal reports on students’ perceptions of creating their own textbook by utilizing Open Educational Resources (OER) through a system called BBookX, a human-computing book creating framework. In class survey was conducted to explore students’ perception toward the system. We will present the survey results as well as our future research directions to explore effective ways to utilize OER in the higher education realm.

Authors

• Gi Woong Choi, The Pennsylvania State University

• Barton K. Pursel, The Pennsylvania State University

• Chen Liang, The Pennsylvania State University

• Shuting Wang, The Pennsylvania State University

• Zhaohui Wu, The Pennsylvania State University

• Benjamin Brautigam, The Pennsylvania State University

• Sherwyn Saul, The Pennsylvania State University

• Hannah Williams, The Pennsylvania State University

• Kyle Bowen, The Pennsylvania State University

• C. Lee Giles, The Pennsylvania State University