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HAS A ROLE IN DECISION TO ADOPT OER - FALL 2011 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Individual faculty Faculty committee Program or division Instructional design group Administration Under 1500 1500 - 2999 3000 - 7499 7500 - 14999 15000+ The large cast of players could aid the adoption of open education resources if each group was able to independently bring potential resources to the attention of others and into the classroom. The potentially large number of persons involved in the decision-making could also make the process unwieldy. This might be especially true at institutions that strive for consensus for major decisions. It might be expected that not everyone that is part of the decision plays an equal role. One reason for the large group of decision makers may be that many of them serve in an advisory capacity, with the final decisions being made by a much smaller group. Academic leaders were also asked which groups on their campus had the primary role in a decision to adopt open education resources. The picture of the primary decision maker is very different from that of those who have any role – only two groups, individual faculty members and the administration, are seen as having primary decision responsibility. PRIMARY ROLE IN DECISION TO ADOPT OER - FALL 2011 50% 45% 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Individual faculty Faculty committee Program or division Instructional design group Administration ! "%! ! !
The relative role of these two groups is very different in different types of institutions. When examined by the type of control of the institution, the administration has the lead among for-profit institutions, where central decisionmaking is more of a tradition. Faculty are in the lead among the private nonprofit and the public institutions. PRIMARY ROLE IN DECISION TO ADOPT OER - FALL 2011 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Private for-profit Private nonprofit Public Administration Individual faculty The importance of faculty among the Doctoral/Research institutions is clear, where they are over six times as likely to have the primary role in an OER adoption decision than is the administration. Associates institutions display an even balance in reporting who has the primary role – with equal numbers reporting faculty and the administration. This is the only type of institution where the role of the administration approaches that of the faculty. PRIMARY ROLE IN DECISION TO ADOPT OER - FALL 2011 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Doctoral/Research Masters Baccalaureate Associates Specialized Administration Individual faculty ! "&! ! !
Page 1 and 2: Growing the Curriculum: Open Educat
Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS Acknowledgments ..........
Page 5 and 6: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Open educational
Page 7 and 8: STUDY RESULTS: Awareness of Open Ed
Page 9 and 10: Use of OER The level of reported us
Page 11 and 12: Perceived Value of OER The perceive
Page 13 and 14: Interestingly, the value of OER doe
Page 15 and 16: When examined by type school (priva
Page 17: The Gatekeepers Who in a large comp
Page 21 and 22: Other, more serious, concerns were
Page 23 and 24: The current report is concerned wit
Page 25 and 26: FACULTY: MY INSTITUTION HAS A FAIR
Page 27 and 28: Faculty are large consumers of digi
Page 29 and 30: In addition to an age effect on fac
Page 31 and 32: A total of 3,875 faculty members in
Page 33 and 34: Use of OER USE OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL
Page 35 and 36: Saving Time and Money CHIEF ACADEMI
Page 37 and 38: The Gatekeepers HAS A ROLE IN DECIS
Page 39 and 40: The Faculty View FACULTY: USED DIGI
Page 41 and 42: BABSON SURVEY RESEARCH GROUP The st

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