Table 3 The popular Open Educational Resources (OER) among the students and reasons to use them in education and limiting factors of using OER
From: Student usage of open educational resources and social media at a Sri Lanka Medical School
Resource | Number | Percentage (%) |
|---|---|---|
Wikis | 217 | 84.4 |
SlideShare | 88 | 34.2 |
e-journals | 48 | 18.7 |
Bibliographic databases | 25 | 9.7 |
Faculty e-journal collection | 15 | 5.8 |
Medical forums | 9 | 3.5 |
Reasons to seek information | ||
 Availability | 93 | 36.1 |
 Easy to search | 81 | 31.5 |
 Detailed information | 41 | 16.0 |
 Updated information | 18 | 7.0 |
Limiting factors | ||
 Difficulty to read the screen for a longer period | 105 | 40.9 |
 Lack of time during the academic hours | 68 | 26.5 |
 Distrustful content in OER | 20 | 7.8 |
 Information overload | 19 | 7.4 |
 Lack of facilities (PC/Laptop/smart phone and Internet) | 9 | 3.5 |