The reality of faculty members’ use of open educational resources

Analytical study

Abstract

The study aims to identify the reality of the use of open educational resources by faculty members at the University of Benghazi in their teaching performance. The research questions focus on a main question, which is: knowing the extent to which faculty members at the University of Benghazi rely on open educational resources in their teaching performance.In the study, the researcher used the descriptive method based on the analytical approach to study the attitudes of a sample of faculty members at the University of Benghazi. The study used the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program to analyze the data collected by the questionnaire. The study concluded a number of results, the most important of which are:• Weak use of open educational resource platforms and websites by faculty members at the University of Benghazi, and thus the lack of publishing their lectures and scientific research through those open educational resources, and that the most obstacles that prevent faculty members from benefiting from educational resource platforms and websitesOpen is the lack of resources on the university’s website, due to the university’s failure to keep pace with the changes that have occurred in the field of scientific communication and the change in its traditional channels. 
The study also presented a number of recommendations, the most important of which are as follows:
• The study recommended the need to introduce open educational resources among faculty members, and also recommended holding scientific seminars and workshops.• The need for university libraries and information institutions at the University of Benghazi to adopt a guide for using open educational resource platforms and websites to benefit from the scientific content available through them.