Determinants of open educational resources usage. Temporal and spatial analysis of an example open educational re - source portal usage

The article analyzes the behavior of users of open educational resources. These behaviors are different from those that have been tested and reported in the literature for computer-aided learning systems. This difference is due to the fact that users of open information resources are not subject to any system of obligation. Their participation in the learning system is entirely voluntary, and that their knowledge at the end of education is not controlled. The only motivation for the study and is interest in the shared knowledge as such. The observation of customer behavior such spontaneous open educational offer is much more difficult than the analysis of the behavior of students using e-learning in typical blended learning models, when the pupil or student is assessed by the teacher supervising the learning process. Therefore, as described in the work lasted four years observing the behavior of Internet users use created by the author of educational resource development is different from those with which we have most to do scientific research in e-learning. This observation, in spite of its separate character, may be the first step to create a model of how to use open knowledge.