Interview Questions
- Have you used OER in the classroom? If not, why not? If so…
- Please explain how you are using open web technologies or open education resources to engage your students.
- Are you doing anything with open web technologies or resources that you think would be difficult or impossible to do using commercial resources or closed technologies?
- How have students responded to working with open technologies or resources?
- Have student grades changed since adopting open resources or technologies in your teaching practice?
- Do you think that students do higher quality work when their work is open on the web?
- What was the hardest part of adopting open course/pedagogy?
- What challenges did you find that you did not anticipate?
- What kinds of impact, if any, has use of OER in the classroom had on your students? Can you give me an example(s)?
- Since you started using OER in the classroom, has there been any change in your teaching practice?
- Do students benefit from using OER? If so, in what ways/how?
- Have you benefited from using OER? If so, in what ways/how?
- Do you adapt the resources you find?
- If you adapt them, why? What do you do? Can you give me an example?
- What did you do to adapt these resources? Do you have any particular way you approach adaption?
- Do you think there are hidden costs associated with the use of OER? If so, what are they?
The following questions are for Instructional designers.
- Did you change your approach to designing assignments or assessments when using OER? If so, how? If not, why?
- Did you change the way you engage with SMEs when using OER in course design? If so, how? If not, why?