OER framework, heuristic and lens : tools for understanding lecturers' adoption of OER

This paper examines three tools for analysing lecturers’ adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher educational settings: an analytical framework (OER Adoption Pyramid); a comparative heuristic (OER Readiness Tables); a differentiating lens (Institutional Culture approach). These tools, emerging from research conducted at the universities of Cape Town (UCT), Fort Hare (UFH) and South Africa (UNISA) enable greater analytical insights at the institutional and cross-institutional level, with the potential for generic global application. When it comes to OER adoption in most higher education contexts, there are two potential agents of OER activity: lecturers, and the institution itself