Open is an invitation: Exploring use of open educational resources with Ontario post-secondary educators - J. Hayman, Thesis Arizona State University

For many of the participants in the study (n = 38), OER were new elements in their teaching practice. I engaged in focused and meaningful dialogue with them as part of professional development sessions in order to fully explore their perspectives about use of OER. I chose two facilitation designs as the action of my action research. The first was a pair of face-to-face workshops, and the second was an open online course commonly called a MOOC (massive open online course). These were the interventions (and innovations) for the study. From the perspective of the participants, the awareness and support strategies were determined to be useful for increasing their use of OER. https://oerknowledgecloud.org/content/open-invitation-exploring-use-open-educational-resources-ontario-post-secondary-educators