OER in Pandemic times: Emergency, Openness and Agency | Global OER Graduate Network

I am currently finishing the study Adoption of Open Educational Resources and Repositories in overcoming the educational crisis during COVID-19 pandemic by K12 teachers in Uruguay, made possible by the GO-GN Research Fellowship. The aim was to investigate the agency of teachers of public primary schools in their practices of creating, reusing and sharing resources, focusing on how these processes were developed within the situation of extreme vulnerability of the educational communities. 

A qualitative methodology was implemented, based on a Latin American critical conceptual model of the adoption of OER (Rodés, 2019). Individual interviews with school principals and  group interviews with teachers, from 3 schools, built the case studies: a school in Montevideo (capital of Uruguay), a school in the metropolitan area, and a school in a province located in the north of the country. This diversity made it possible to provide variability and comparability to the study.

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