The Open Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) Project conducted a survey to find out about the level of awareness of open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP) among HE institutions in Scotland. In total 235 valid responses were collected in a five-week period from 19th October 2015 to 23rd November 2015. This infographic highlights some of the findings. If you are interested in reading the full interim report, please visit http://www.slideshare.net/OEPScotland/awareness-of-oer-and-oep-in-scottish-higher-education-institutions-survey-results

1. Awareness of open educational
resources in HE in Scotland
How aware are
you of open
educational
resources (OER)?
from an online survey of 235 educators in 15 Higher Education institutions, conducted Nov 2015
How aware are
you of...?
I am not aware of OER
I have heard of OER but
don't know much about
them
I am aware of OER
Public
DomainCopyright
Creative
Commons
When selecting
teaching resources,
how important
are these factors?
Do you share your
teaching materials?
Through
institution's
VLE
Via email In person Publicly
online
I don't share
"I'm prepared to use
material that is not
"perfect" providing that
it can be adapted to
suit my particular
circumstances"
"I tend to share the
resources I've created
myself"
Which types of OER
have you used?
Are you aware of
OER used by
students?
Yes
No
Do you encourage
students to use OER?
Yes
No
"If they need to
develop some skills that
are not adequately
taught or addressed in
the course that I
teach"
For which purposes
have you used OER?
Which of these
do you consider
a barrier to the
adoption of OER?
oepscotland.org Full report available at http://bit.ly/OEPS_HEI_Report
"There's no support for
learners who need it,
and this can create
frustrations & put up
further barriers to
learning"
"Institutional steer on
this would help!"