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Learners’ Access to Educational Materials in Select Institutions within the Commonwealth
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Abstract
The purpose of this report is to assess students’ access to educational materials
in select institutions within Commonwealth countries. The report starts with
a review of the existing literature on problems and barriers to students’ access
to educational materials, including textbooks. The review is used to develop
a research study and appropriate questionnaire tools to undertake a survey of
students in select institutions. Quantitative and qualitative approaches are then
used to analyse the data. The findings indicate that learners are now engaging
with a complex ecosystem of learning materials, both print and digital, in
a multitude of differing forms and formats, with various terms of use and
durations of sustained access. Furthermore, the results show that learners are
not acutely aware of open educational resources (OER) and in some cases
conflate OER with online knowledge resources, indicating that much more
work needs to be done to educate learners about OER, where to find them,
and how they can be used. //
Keywords: open educational resources, learning materials, access to education
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Pan-Commonwealth
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2019-12
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)