Does Teachers’ Intention Translate to Actual Usage? Investigating the Predictors of K-12 Teachers’ Usage of Open Educational Resources in China

Huiying Cai, Haixia Dong, Xin Li and Lung-Hsiang Wong ()
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Huiying Cai: Department of Educational Technology, School of Humanity, Jiangnan University, 1800 Liwu Avenue, Wuxi 214122, China
Haixia Dong: Jiangyin Junior High School, 248 Chengjiang West Road, Jiangyin 214400, China
Xin Li: Department of Educational Technology, School of Humanity, Jiangnan University, 1800 Liwu Avenue, Wuxi 214122, China
Lung-Hsiang Wong: National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616, Singapore

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: Education stakeholders around the world have been promoting the use of open educational resources (OER) by K-12 teachers to improve the quality of classroom instruction. Prior research identified individual and contextual factors that influenced teachers’ use of OER yet ignored the factor of quality. The aim of this survey study was to investigate how three categories of factors (quality of OER, teacher-related factors, and school-related factors) influence teachers’ use of OER based on the framework of the integrative model of behavior prediction. Multiple regression analysis and structural equation modeling of survey data from 1398 Chinese teachers yielded unexpected findings that contradict the understanding of the issue as reported in the prior literature. That is, compared with the distal school-related factors, the distal OER-related factor is a stronger predictor of teachers’ use of OER. Among the proximal teacher-related factors, the effects of the two types of distal factors on teachers’ use of OER were positively mediated by their self-efficacy in using OER and negatively mediated by their intention to use and attitude toward using OER. This reflects how the salient features of the Chinese educational landscape may have distorted previously known factors conducive to teachers’ use of OER among scholars and practitioners worldwide. Recommendations for future improvement of teachers’ OER adoption in Chinese K-12 education are discussed.

Keywords: open educational resources; integrative model of behavior prediction; quality of open educational resources; teachers’ use of open educational resources; teachers’ self-efficacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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