ERIC Number: EJ1075352
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
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A Case Study of Scholars' Open and Sharing Practices
Veletsianos, George
Open Praxis, v7 n3 p199-209 Jul-Sep 2015
Although the open scholarship movement has successfully captured the attention and interest of higher education stakeholders, researchers currently lack an understanding of the degree to which open scholarship is enacted in institutions that lack institutional support for openness. I help fill this gap in the literature by presenting a descriptive case study that illustrates the variety of open and sharing practices enacted by faculty members at a North American university. Open and sharing practices enacted at this institution revolve around publishing manuscripts in open ways, participating on social media, creating and using open educational resources, and engaging with open teaching. This examination finds that certain open practices are favored over others. Results also show that even though faculty members often share scholarly materials online for free, they frequently do so without associated open licenses (i.e. without engaging in open practices). These findings suggest that individual motivators may significantly affect the practice of openness, but that environmental factors (e.g., institutional contexts) and technological elements (e.g., YouTube's default settings) may also shape open practices in unanticipated ways.
Descriptors: Scholarship, Case Studies, Sharing Behavior, Shared Resources and Services, Open Education, Open Source Technology, Higher Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Universities, Electronic Publishing, Ethnography
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: North America
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