The advent of open educational resources (OER) has increased access to pedagogical resources that promote the quality of education, but the potential of the OER to transform pedagogical practices is yet to be realized, mainly as a result of a lack of concentration on the policies and practices necessary to support the idea of openness within the academic institutions. Several exploratory attentions have been given to educators' adoption of OER, but little or none exists on university students' intention to use and motivation to create OER. This study explores university students' intention to use OER in Study 1 and motivation to create OER in Study 2 using a non-experimental research design with a survey method and partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) for the two studies. The findings indicated that the relationship between perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, zero price accessibility and availability, and attitude and university students' intention to use OER is significantly positive for Study 1. This showed that university students' intention to use OER can be influenced by these factors. The relationship between competence and mastery of content, personal development, reward system and motivation to create OER is significantly positive for Study 2. This implies that university students are not mere users of OER but partners in the OER crusade as creators.