Making the Most of Cognitive Surplus: Descriptive Case Studies of Student-Generated Open Educational Resources
Mais Fatayer,
Eseta Tualaulelei
Abstract:Universities are hives of knowledge production and innovation, but the work students produce for assessment is often utilised in a limited way, neglecting a potentially rich intellectual resource. This article investigates an activity that can make use of this resource. It has known benefits for students but is rarely used in higher education—student-generated open educational resources (OER). In descriptive case studies of two projects where students created OER as an assessed part of university coursework, t… Show more
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