Faculty members’ attitudes towards employing open educational resources In university education

Abstract

In recent years, many universities and colleges, especially in developed countries, have doubled their interest in benefiting from information and communications technologies and their applications and using them in education to improve the entire educational process, as a result of what the results of many research and studies have shown of a noticeable improvement in the quality of educational outcomes in general that use such technologies.Engaging in the knowledge economy and catching up with advanced countries, both cognitively and economically, requires expanding and improving educational opportunities at all levels and types, but this noble goal often collides with many obstacles, especially with the obstacle of huge investments required by projects to establish, expand and disseminate these opportunities.Educational resources, and the huge specialized human and financial resources this requires, especially in developing countries that are on the path to growth.
     Arab university libraries in general, and in our country, Libya in particular, suffer greatly from the traditional system of access to information, especially from the problem of the increasing prices for subscriptions to periodicals.Global scientific databases and databases available on the Internet, which prevented them from meeting the need of students, professors and researchers to access this advanced scientific knowledge.
     Great initiatives have emerged in the world to adopt the concept of open educational resources, making international universities and international institutions interested in education, such as Carnegie University and the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMellon, Harvard, Berkeley, KEO in Japan, Paris Tech, and the Western Cape in South Africa, in addition to many countries in the world, are adopting what are called open educational resources, to the point where some universities have put all their courses, complete with all their resources, free and open to everyone on the Internet.