IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mth/ijld88/v13y2023i3p1-18.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Use of Open Educational Resources as Teaching Tools in Primary Education: Activities by Postgraduate Students of the Hellenic Open University

Author

Listed:
  • Filippos Evangelou

Abstract

This paper attempts to explore the views of postgraduate students of the Hellenic Open University on the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) as teaching tools in teaching and learning for primary school students and more specifically the potential and limitations of OER. In this context, the research sample consisted of twenty-six (26) postgraduate students of the Hellenic Open University, who simultaneously worked as teachers in various Primary Schools in Greece. The sampling method followed was “convenience sampling†. The research tool for data collection was the use of an appropriately designed anonymous questionnaire in the form of a written questionnaire. It contained two open-ended questions which were considered - for the purposes of the research - as a questionnaire in the form of an open-ended structured interview. From the analysis and processing of the research data, the main conclusions are- i) the main potentials of OER as teaching tools recorded by the research subjects are open and easy access to information and virtual environments, reuse and continuous adaptation, modernization and innovation, variety and different forms of OER, saving financial resources, saving time for the teacher, etc. ii) the main constraints are the difficulty of quality control of OER, copyright restrictions, the lack of pedagogical and teaching criteria, the lack of logistical infrastructure, the need for internet access, the amount of time the teacher has to spend to identify them, the lack of knowledge and training on OER, the difficulty of finding OER relevant to the subjects, the lack of accessibility tools for students with special educational needs.

Suggested Citation

  • Filippos Evangelou, 2023. "The Use of Open Educational Resources as Teaching Tools in Primary Education: Activities by Postgraduate Students of the Hellenic Open University," International Journal of Learning and Development, Macrothink Institute, vol. 13(3), pages 1-18, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:mth:ijld88:v:13:y:2023:i:3:p:1-18
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijld/article/download/21010/16251
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijld/article/view/21010
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Ahmed Tlili & Ronghuai Huang & Ting-Wen Chang & Fabio Nascimbeni & Daniel Burgos, 2019. "Open Educational Resources and Practices in China: A Systematic Literature Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-14, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Pablo Alejandro Quezada-Sarmiento & Jon A. Elorriaga & Ana Arruarte & Hironori Washizaki, 2020. "Open BOK on Software Engineering Educational Context: A Systematic Literature Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-20, August.
    2. Yali Zhang & Huihui Zhu & Bo Mu & Xiaojian Zhang & Xuerong Cui, 2020. "Inter-Campus Sharable Potential of Hardware Educational Resources in A University Town: Connotation, Determination Method and A Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-18, February.
    3. Maria Soledad Ramirez-Montoya, 2020. "Challenges for Open Education with Educational Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-16, August.
    4. Nduduzo C. Ndebele & Mfundo Mandla Masuku & Victor H. Mlambo, 2023. "Funding Open Educational Resources in Higher Education: A South African Public Policy Perspective," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-16, January.
    5. Xiangling Zhang & Ahmed Tlili & Ronghuai Huang & Tingwen Chang & Daniel Burgos & Junfeng Yang & Jiacai Zhang, 2020. "A Case Study of Applying Open Educational Practices in Higher Education during COVID-19: Impacts on Learning Motivation and Perceptions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(21), pages 1-12, November.
    6. Baoqing Song & Bingyang He & Zehua Wang & Ruichong Lin & Jinrui Yang & Runxian Zhou & Yunji Cai, 2022. "Research on Open Practice Teaching of Off-Campus Art Appreciation Based on ICT," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-14, April.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mth:ijld88:v:13:y:2023:i:3:p:1-18. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Technical Support Office (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijld .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.