Differentiation in Access to, and the Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among Students and Lecturers at Technical and Comprehensive Ghanaian Universities
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2018-11-19
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Open Praxis
Abstract
This paper is the second in a series of three with a common goal to present a fair OER picture for Sub-Saharan
Africa, represented by large-scale studies in three countries: Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. This paper
examines a deliberate selection of four Ghanaian universities with randomly sampled students and lecturers.
Distinct questionnaires for students and the lecturers have been used, which generated a response from in total
818 students and 38 lecturers. The major outcomes based on the empirical data are: (i) there is a significant
digital differentiation among lecturers and students at technical versus comprehensive universities in terms
of their proficiency and internet accessibility; and (ii) the awareness and appreciation of the OER concept
and open licensing is low but from the actual variety and types of processing by respondents of educational
resources (not necessarily open) there is a preparedness for openness for the future.
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Educational Resources, Open Educational Resources (OER), ICT, Differentiation, Access, Use, Sharing, Universities in Ghana, Student, Lecturers, Open education