ELIG open education survey

 

The aim of this survey is to gain insights into the ways in which the LEARNING INDUSTRY is engaged in OPEN EDUCATION practices. In doing so we aim to identify both the incentives and barriers that learning industry members indicate impact on their level of engagement with open education practices. Our purpose is to inform the industry and provide input to EU policy and regulatory direction.

This survey is organized by the European Learning Industry Group(ELIG). ELIG is a neutral observer of diverse open education practices and aims to collect viewpoints from a representative range of stakeholders of the learning industry - including learning providers, publishing houses, learning service- or technology providers. This survey is partially funded by the European Commission under the Life Long Learning Programme projects openSE and openED 2.0.

The survey has four sections:
Section 1 'About You' contains 6 questions
Section 2 'Production of open educational resources and open education' has 11 questions
Section 3 'Use of open educational resources and open education' has 13 questions.
Section 4 ' General Questions, has 21 questions.

Respondents will automatically avoid Sections 2 and 3 if they are not relevant. Depending on responses that the survey will take between 10 minutes - 35 minutes to complete. Aspects of open standards, business models and platforms are contained in the General Questions.

Definitions
In this survey we use the following definitions:
OPEN EDUCATION: An educational offering which offers no barriers to entry, including financial or academic ones
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER): digitised materials offered free at the point of use for educators, trainers, students and self-learners to use, re-use and in some cases modify.
OPEN Standards: A technical or conceptual specification that is openely accessible, is used in multiple organisations (e.g. for interfaces, competence models or content formats) and that is royalty free.
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSS): open software tools such as learning management systems for which the source code is available under an open licence and that does not imply licence fees.

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