Ethics in Higher Education: Values-driven Leaders for the Future

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322 Ethics in Higher Education: Values-driven Leaders for the Future


The UT OER policy provides a legal basis of OER development by
adopting Creative Common licenses. The number of UT’s academics to
use OER in their online learning is steadily increasing as they may
perceive benefits. There are various modus of the adopting and
localizing the OER. Many academics prefer the attribution license and
localize them into Indonesian situation. The increased UT’s academics
awareness of OER may provide positive signal on the culture of
knowledge sharing. The following figure reveals the growing awareness
of academics toward the benefit OER to be integrated into their online
learning.


18.5 OER Integration into UT Online-Learning


Source: Hewindati (2014) The Spirit of UT Openness, paper presented in
seminar: Positioning e-Learning in An Open and Global Education Arena, UT,
13 March 2014.


Along with the movement of open content, OERs seem to have been
increasingly received as highly recognizable references by both learner
and educator. The OER have also substantially helped educator and


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