University Instructors' Levels of Use of Open Educational Resources and the Factors that Influenced their Usage
Ali Sabah Jameel
Department of English, College of Arts, University of Anbar
Nabeel Jassim Mohammed
Department of Sociology, College of Arts, University of Anbar
Maha Majeed Anber
Department of English ,College of Education for Humanities, University of Anbar
Abdul-Razzaq Hussein Saleh
Deanship office, College of Arts, University of Anbar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.8.12.2.11
Keywords: OERs, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and attitudes
Abstract
The study aims to reveal the university instructors' level of use of the kinds of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and their usage in teaching and for academic purposes too, also to reveal the factors that encourage them to use the OERs. The study's design is quantitative and qualitative data. The data were gathered via a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. The participants were 52 university instructors from the Department of English and the Department of Sociology at the College of Arts, and the College of Education for Humanities, University of Anbar. The results revealed that the instructors' level of use of OERs was low. The most used OERs were The Multimedia Resources, Online dictionaries, and the Spell Checkers. The factors that affect using OERs were the attitude, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived behavioral control, satisfaction, and perceived pleasure. It can be inferred that the instructors do not use the most common OERs. They used Online dictionaries and Spell Checkers which is important for all EFL instructors. The instructors used the OERs based on several factors, they use the OERs which have positive attitude, useful for their teaching, ease of use, also they used the OERs that they feel they have behavioral control, satisfaction also was an important factor to use OERs which provide satisfaction atmosphere, and finally, they used the OERs which they perceived pleasure when they use them.
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