Jose Fulgencio

co-author of "Mobile Apps in Open Educational Resources"

January 9, 2018

Jose Fulgencio is a Chicago native with a B.A. in Political Science from Northeastern Illinois University, M.A. in Political Science and M.S. in Entrepreneurship from Oklahoma State University. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in Higher Education with a focus on Educational Technology. His work experience includes startup founder of two companies, teaching political science, management for a private bank and Job Club Coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Globally, those who have traditionally been adversely impacted by the digital divide due to lack of access to computing technologies, such as desktop computers, are also the ones who have been shown to have high adoption of mobile devices. If open educational resources are to have the envisaged wide impact, it is necessary to look at the role mobile applications and mobile app markets play in the OER movement. In this chapter, we link mobile applications and OER and discuss the role mobile app markets play in facilitating open access learning initiatives. This is done by exploring OER and mobile learning definitions, benefits and barriers and comparing and contrasting mobile apps across a set of variables including purpose and resource format.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2018-honorees/jose-fulgencio

Last Updated: 14 February 2018