The predictors for the successful adaptation of open educational resources in Maldives / Aishath Shibana

Abstract:
The main aim of integrating technology in education should be to provide a cost effective access to high quality education experiences to the leaners. In Maldives, the schools are investing a lot of money on technology. However, it has less impact on teaching and learning as it takes lot of time for the teachers to develop learning materials. Therefore it is important to identify ways of using existing Open Educational Resources (OER) by adapting, them rather than producing it from scratch.
Therefore, the objectives to identify the successful factors for the adaptation of OER in Maldives, by analyzing teacher's perception of usefulness, ease of use and attitude towards OER that shows their behavioral intention to adapt OER in Maldives.
A cross sectional study design was employed in this study. The population comprises of five schools which has reached at least basic level from an analysis done on technology penetration. A web-based survey was used to collect data. Two key factors, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use were taken as factors which have direct influence of PER in Maldives. At the same time two factors, attitude towards use of OER and behavioral intention to use OER are taken as two factors which have direct impact on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use to adapt OER in Maldives. All the relationships tested were significant and positive with substantial to very strong relationship between all the four factors.