The four big reasons for contribution to open educational resources
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2011
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Metzer, J.
Hanna, A.M.B.
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Barton, S.
Hedberg, J.
Suzuki, K.
Hedberg, J.
Suzuki, K.
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Proceedings of Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011, 2011 / Barton, S., Hedberg, J., Suzuki, K. (ed./s), pp.1630-1638
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AACE Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011 (28 Mar 2011 - 1 Apr 2011 : Melbourne, Australia)
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Volunteers contribute their efforts and time into organizations for different reasons and goals. These goals include strengthening their experience, developing networks, and enhancing their feelings. Similarly, programmers to Open Source Software (OSS) contribute programming to experience programming, develop their career future, and make software freely available for users. The rapid increase in contributing learning materials to Open Educational Resources (OERs) raises the question of what are the possible reasons that inspire OER contributors to write to these repositories. A web-based survey was published on Wikibooks website to assess the different reasons for contribution to OERs. After applying factor analysis to the sample (N=145), four reasons of contribution to OERs emerged. These results were discussed in relation to the Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) and motivation to contribute or not to open source/content.
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