INT- Understanding social justice in K-12 teachers’ effective use of OER

• In Event: INT/ICEM- Perspectives on Learning Design (h)

Short Description

Open educational resources (OER) may promote social justice imperatives in education, but it remains uncertain whether OER benefit their primary beneficiaries. This exploratory research employed a cross-cultural perspective to interrogate how the second-level digital divide shapes K-12 teachers’ effective use of OER. Stepwise logistic regressions were applied to a large-scale survey to identify the factors accounting for teachers’ effective use of OER across countries. Cultural implications on support OER adoption in K-12 settings were discussed.

Authors

• Presenter: Hengtao Tang, University of South Carolina

• Contributor: Yu Bao, James Madison University

• Contributor: Yu-Ju Lin, Purdue University