Engagement of digital natives in the development of learning content for open educational resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) has gained widespread recognition in higher education. Universities around the world started to create and share their intellectual property through open educational resources since 2002. However, sustainability is a main challenge that OER movement faces, and finding a self-sustaining model is among the anticipated solutions. The present paper proposes a new development model for building learning resources for OER, the model taps into student-generated content which students create as part of study units, and repurpose the creation process toward building learning resources that can be shared through OER. The model is offering students the opportunity to contribute to knowledge construction of OER, and engages them actively in building their learning experience. This paper is part of a PhD research at the University of Western Sydney. The paper presents the theoretical framework of the proposed model, and explains the three stages of the development model. Design-based research methodology is employed to help research process. The research includes two iterations of students' engagement in constructing the learning content for OER and will take place at the University of Western Sydney during two academic semesters.