Your Cart

• Log in

• Related Products
• Parent
  • • Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal
• Associated
  • • Virtual Collaboration in the Teaching of Interior Design and Dance
  • • Your Desktop or Mine
  • • Game-based Learning Approach to Teach Computer Science Concepts
  • • Ubiquitous Writing
  • • The Classroom as a “Total Work of Art”
  • • A Slang Open Book
  • • Engaging Facebook
  • • The Nifty Factor Never Trumps Instructional and Information Design Principles
  • • Harnessing Ubiquitous Technologies to Banish Barriers to Learning
  • • Online Learning and the Expanded Classroom
  • More →

A User-centered Approach to Open Educational Resources

By Jingfeng Xia and Lydia C. Spotts.

Published by Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal

This paper proposes a user-centered open educational resources (OER) system that serves a single academic discipline, and argues that the system will provide more convenience to people who want to learn a particular subject rather than use the material as part of a degree-seeking activity. After examining current OER conditions in the field of library and information science and comparing the advantages and disadvantages between a provider-centered institutional OER and a user-centered subject OER, we call for efforts towards restructuring OER in the domain of academic disciplines.

Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp.71-84. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 822.882KB).

Jingfeng Xia

Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Lydia C. Spotts

Graduate Assistant, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA