Summary of results of the fair and reasonable practice survey from participants in the Kenyan Symposium on Open Education

1. Kenya OER Symposium
Fair and reasonable practice survey
International comparison
International respondents: 800
KEOpenEd Respondents: 16
Commonwealth of Learning
Chair in OER
Otago Polytechnic

2. Awareness of open education concepts
KEOpenEd
International
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
81%
78%
19%
22%
Yes No / Not sure
Did you know about the concept
of OER before today?
KEOpenEd
International
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
50%
82%
50%
18%
Yes No / Not sure
Did you know about
Creative Commons licenses
before today?
The majority of educators are aware of the concepts of OER but fewer
KEOpenEd participants are aware of Creative Commons Licenses

3. Reuse, use and knowledge of CC
KEOpenEd
International
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
56%
78%
44%
22%
Yes No / Not sure
Have you used Creative Commons
Content before?
KEOpenEd
International
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
19%
82%
81%
18%
Yes No / Not sure
Have you applied a Creative Commons
license before?
Self evaluation of knowledge of
Creative Commons
licenses
KEOpenEd
Interational
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
60%
60%
40%
40%
0%
0%
Beginner Intermediate Advanced

4. Open policy and copyright exceptions for education
KEOpenEd
International
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
94%
95%
6%
5%
Agree Disagree
Content funded from taxpayer
revenue should be released freely
for use by everyone
KEOpenEd
International
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
87%
81%
13%
19%
Agree Disagree
It is fair and reasonable for educators
to have unrestricted permissions to
COPY materials for
teaching & learning
Majority agreement that learning materials funded from public money should
be released freely and majority support for educational copyright exceptions

5. Perceived barriers to OER adoption
KEOpenEd
International
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
50%
22%
50%
78%
Agree Disagree
I'm reluctant to share teaching materials
because I don't have time
KEOpenEd
International
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
37%
22%
63%
78%
Agree Disagree
I'm reluctant to share teaching materials
because there are no incentives
for me to do so
KEOpenEd
International
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
37%
13%
63%
87%
Agree Disagree
I'm reluctant to use OER because
there is no guarantee of the
quality

6. The business of open education
KEOpenEd
International
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
13%
22%
87%
78%
Agree Disagree
Education institutions which give away
teaching materials will loose their
competitive advantage (e.g. reduced
student registrations)
Majority opinion of educators suggests that institutions generate competive
advantage through the learning services they offer (not the teaching materials)