Academic Libraries and Open Educational Resources: Some Foreign Trends
https://doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2022-4-109-116
Abstract
The concept of open science, which is becoming more widespread, actualizes the problems of access to educational content. Scientific libraries, in their turn, face a number of challenges involving the operation with open educational resources. The purpose of the study was to generalize the main trends of this kind of work carried out by libraries of foreign educational institutions, the material was the data presented in scientific publications in 2012–2021. The content analysis of 70 articles made it possible to identify the following areas in the work of foreign academic libraries with open educational resources: the support of the educational process; a study of awareness on resources and interest in them in the students’ and professors’ environment; open educational resources assessment by users; promotion, as well as barriers to the use and development of open educational resources. The results of the study are of value for organizing work with open educational resources in academic libraries.
About the Author
P. A. Chesnyalis
State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Chesnyalis Polina Anatolyevna - Candidate of Philological Sciences, Researcher of the Department of Scientific Research of Open Science
630200, Novosibirsk, Voskhod str., 15
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Chesnyalis P.A. Academic Libraries and Open Educational Resources: Some Foreign Trends. Bibliosphere. 2022;(4):109-116. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2022-4-109-116
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