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Stephen Downes

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Open educational resources (OER) help "to combat discrimination and illiteracy" as well as to "promote education with compensating measures in the fields of special education, migrant education (and) minorities' rights to education." Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model, this study (14 page PDF) investigated the use of OER at "a traditional university in South Africa" and argues that "those perceived benefits cannot be realised unless university lecturers effectively use such resources to supplement their courses." More generally, the authors write, "universities must seek to address underlying inequities in the creation and democratisation of knowledge."

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