Why Teachers Share Educational Resources: A Social Exchange Perspective

In 2009, the Dutch government launched the Wikiwijs project to increase the use, development and sharing of digital learning materials. Wikiwijs mainly offers Open Educational Resources (OER) through a freely accessible website. Although not all resources are freely available, most of Wikiwijs’s learning materials are published under an open licence. Even though part of the educational resources is provided by the project itself, Wikiwijs relies largely on voluntary contributions by individual teachers who develop digital learning materials. As most of the educational resources Wikiwijs offers come at no cost, teachers need to be willing to share their own resources without any financial compensation.