RT Journal Article
T1 Educational innovation, open educational resources, and gender in latin american universities
A1 Rodés Paragarino, Virginia
A1 Gewerc Barujel, Adriana
K1 Open education
K1 Open educational resources
K1 Gender
K1 Higher education
K1 Professional identity
AB This article analyses the professional identities of nine women academics from different universities and Latin American countries in their relationship with open education (OE) and the production of open educational resources (OERs) for teaching, as a significant key to understand the meaning of being an academic today in a social and economic context such as the Latin American one, and the perspectives this contributes to educational innovation. It arises from the need to deepen research on systemic structures of empowerment for open-access creation and publication, where gender is critical, considering the imbalances that are evident in other fields of educational technology, and specifically in the use of OERs. A qualitative methodology based on grounded theory was implemented, together with the biographical method and digital ethnography, with in-depth interviews with nine women academics from different areas of knowledge from Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Uruguay. The results offer an insight into their professional identities and how this is configured in relation to education, open educational resources, and educational innovation in university teaching. Participation in the open education movement provides a space for empowerment and mobilisation, which contributes to a transformative identity, as an emerging habitus, that underpins educational innovation in this field.
PB MDPI
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30367
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30367
LA eng
NO Rodés Paragarino, V., & Gewerc, A. (2023). Educational Innovation, Open Educational Resources, and Gender in Latin American Universities. Education Sciences, 13(1)
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026