Justifying institutional investment in OER development: OERs as marketing vehicle
Lynn, Theo and Muzellec, Laurent and Bruton, Neil (2010) Justifying institutional investment in OER development: OERs as marketing vehicle. In: Open Ed 2010 - 7th Annual Open Education Conference, 2-4 November 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
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The higher education sector has become increasingly competitive and prospective students are adopting a consumerist approach to institution and programme choice. In response, higher education marketing has become more complex, market-oriented and business-like. Financial sustainability of open education resource (OER) projects is a widespread concern. This paper explores the extent to which a classical product placement framework can be applied to OERs to justify institutional funding in OER projects as a marketing investment. It is argued that OERs designed on this premise can increase cognitive, affective and conative brand outcomes while providing the traditional educational and societal benefits associated with OERs. A series of propositions are presented that may form the basis of a future research agenda.
|Item Type:||Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||open education resources; sustainability; institutional investment; return on investment; research agenda; product placement; hybrid messages;|
|Subjects:||Business > Marketing|
|DCU Faculties and Centres:||DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School|
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