A Person-Centered Analysis of College Students' Achievement Goals in OER-Based Courses and Teachers' Intentions to Integrate Open Educational Resources in Inclusive Classrooms

Speakers: Hengtao Tang, Yan Yang, and Yu Bao Open educational resources (OER) have the potential to serve as cost-effective alternatives to expensive textbooks and instructional materials; however, questions remain whether students are motivated to learn when financial barriers are mitigated. This study aimed to investigate college students' profiles of achievement goals in OER-based courses. Following a person-centered analysis approach, this study conducted a latent class analysis to identify learner profiles and examined in what ways profile-specific motivation traits contributed to students' learning outcomes. The findings of this study revealed three distinct goal profiles, ambitious, independent, and indifferent group. Particularly, the indifferent group performed significantly lower than the other two groups. These results underscore the importance of nurturing students' achievement goals within OER-based courses to unlock the potential of OER for fostering effective learning.