Making open educational resource videos on sustainable development: students’ attitudes, rationales, and approaches

ABSTRACT

Aim and background

The aim of this study was to investigate students’ attitudes, rationales, and approaches to making open educational resource (OER) videos (a form of OERs) on sustainable development (SD) in order to identify students’ competencies and effective pedagogical designs.

Method

Students registering for a teacher training course were invited to design and create pedagogies, make OER videos, and share the videos on YouTube on five SD topics: sustainable lifestyle, campus, community, enterprise, and earth development. The students provided their weekly journals and a final reflection on the whole process of making the OER videos on SD. This study used qualitative data analysis and text mining methodologies to analyse students’ process data of making OER videos on SD.

Results and discussion

The analysis results revealed that making OER videos on SD needed students’ ideational, inquiry, societal, and disciplinary competencies. Inferred pedagogical suggestions for practitioners to support students in making digital products on SD are to follow a linear pathway from ideational creation, inquiry process, societal transformation, to transdisciplinary reflection.

KEYWORDS:

• Digital content
• science education
• open educational resources
• sustainable development

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (NSC101-3113-S-004-001; MOST 106-2410-H-004-131). The funder only provides financial support and does not substantially influence the entire research process, from study design to submission. The author is fully responsible for the content of the paper.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST 106-2410-H-004-131].