Innovation Opportunities for Academic Libraries to Support Teaching Through Open Education: A Case Study at TU Delft, The Netherlands

Abstract

Opportunities for academic libraries to enrich their products and services through facilitating open education (OE) in higher education are presented in an overview of good practices. A case study of open textbook publishing was performed at TU Delft to study how these products and services could stimulate educators to adopt OE. A simplified user acceptance model of innovation was developed and applied to the case study, to study the educator's mind-set before and after they published an open textbook with the support of the TU Delft Library. Using the insights that were gained from the case study and from good practices of other university libraries, recommendations are presented for professionalizing products and services by academic libraries to facilitate the adoption of OE into educational practice and to develop institutional policies and regulations that support educators with these practices.

Analysis of open education in Latin America in the framework of UNESCO's new recommendations

“…Among the challenges of open education are those related to access through linguistic and cultural contexts (Brahim et al, 2017) the challenge for teachers to change practices (Kaatrakoski et al, 2017) 2018). Similarly, the opportunities are crystallized in the possibility of visibility (LeCounte & Johnson, 2016), the integration of inclusive practices , the reduction of temporary and economic costs (de Jong et al, 2019) the expansion of multidisciplinary collaboration (Govindarajan & Dhanavandan, 2019) and the increase of training and extension practices, as well as opportunities for the transition in educational innovation (Rabin et al, 2020), with three factors to be considered: disruptive innovation, zero marginal costs and disaggregation.…”