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Challenges and Instructors’ Intention to Adopt and Use Open Educational Resources in Higher Education in Tanzania

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dc.creator Mtebe, Joel S.
dc.creator Raisamo, Roope
dc.date 2016-03-08T10:08:47Z
dc.date 2016-03-08T10:08:47Z
dc.date 2014
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T11:49:58Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T11:49:58Z
dc.identifier Joel Samson Mtebe and Roope Raisamo. "Challenges and Instructors’ Intention to Adopt and Use Open Educational Resources in Higher Education in Tanzania" International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 15 Iss. 1 (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mtebe/5
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/683
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10383
dc.description Higher education in Tanzania like in many other Sub-Saharan countries suffers from unavailability of quality teaching and learning resources due to lack of tradition, competence, and experience to develop such resources. Nevertheless, there are thousands of open educational resources (OER) freely available in the public domain that can potentially improve the quality of existing resources or help to develop new courses. The uptake and reuse of these resources in higher learning institutions (HLIs) in Tanzania has been very low. The study applied the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model to elicit instructors’ intention to adopt and use OER in teaching. The paper also investigated challenges that hinder instructors to adopt and use OER. A sample of 104 instructors selected randomly from five HLIs was collected and tested against the research model using regression analysis. The study found effort expectancy had significant positive effect on instructors’ intention to use OER while performance expectancy, facilitating conditions, and social influence did not have significant effect. Challenges that were found to hinder instructors to adopt and use OER are discussed. The findings of this study will help those who are involved in OER implementation to find strategies that will maximize OER adoption and usage in higher education in Tanzania.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Higher Education
dc.subject Open educational resources
dc.subject eLearning
dc.subject OER acceptance
dc.subject UTAUT
dc.title Challenges and Instructors’ Intention to Adopt and Use Open Educational Resources in Higher Education in Tanzania
dc.type Journal Article


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