Maine teachers technology and OER survey results

http://www.mainesupportnetwork.org/oer/reports.php

some findings:

• Seventy-two percent of teacher responses indicated some knowledge of Open Educational Resources. The majority of teachers (37.9%) reported they were somewhat familiar with the concept. Over 25% of teachers reported no knowledge of Open Educational Resources.

• The majority of teachers are using Google to locate their OER.

• Of the 45 teachers who answered this question, the top reasons for how they typically use the OER they find were that they generally just viewed them online or added parts of them to their own educational materials. Few shared them with others on a domain site.

• Teachers reported that time, both to research and to experiment with their resource, is the biggest challenge they face in OER use.

• The majority of the teachers surveyed learned about effectively using OER from trial and error, and from colleagues.

• In analyzing the professional development requests received it is apparent that the teachers who responded to the survey would like hands-on workshops that provide information on using the Internet to find specific OER, examples of OER, and time to experiment and network with colleagues.

• Teachers’ questions were about the reliability, validity, and availability of OER for use.