The role of brokers in cultivating an inter-institutional community around open educational resources in higher education.

ABSTRACT: Brokers are individuals who facilitate transfer of knowledge and resources, and coordinate efforts across boundaries of organizations. They are defined by their role rather than their organizational position. Brokers might be imperative for the formation and maintenance of inter-institutional relationship as they have the responsibility and the necessary structural position to connect otherwise separate groups. In the context of this study, brokers had the role to cultivate an inter-institutional community around open educational resources (OER) by connecting groups of teachers across higher education institutes. OER provide higher education institutes with an aid to face the challenges of improving teaching and learning. Yet most OER users encounter challenges that relate to finding resou

SUBMITTER: Baas M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9165544 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature