OER: Open Educational Resources at SC4

Young, Jeffrey R., "As Campuses Move to Embrace OER, College Libraries Become Key Players" EdSurge, 4 Jan. 2018.

A new report from Babson College examines the attitudes, opinions and use of open educational resources among higher education faculty.

The objective of the paper is to present a pedagogical approach to openness. The paper develops a framework for understanding the pedagogical opportunities of openness in education. By Christian Dalsgaard and Klaus Thestrup of the Centre for Teaching Development and Digital Media, Aarhus University, Denmark. Published in the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, v. 16 no. 6. Nov. 2015.

This paper examines the perceptions that students have of the different versions of an open statistics textbook used over several years in one community college. Survey results show that students generally had at least as good of an experience using the open textbook compared to traditional textbooks.

by Lane Fischer, John HiltonIII. Jared Robinson, David A. Wiley. Journal of Computing in Higher Education. 2015.

Hilton, J. Education Tech Research Dev (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-019-09700-4

This article synthesizes the results of 16 studies that examine either (1) the influence of OER on student learning outcomes in higher education settings or (2) the perceptions of college students and instructors of OER.

Digital Pedagogy Lab. Rajiv Jhangiani and Robin DeRosa. June 2, 2107

from the Scottsdale Independent, Nov. 10, 2016

Published 8/2015, from the School of Graduate Studies at East Tennessee State University,

by A.J. O'Connell. Campus Technology, 2/1/2017

Taking into account library articles, web links, videos, simulations and more, many courses are already using a number of open education resources - and the move to full OER doesn't necessarily mean a total revamp, according to research out of Excelsior College.

Open Praxis is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal focusing on research and innovation in open, distance and flexible education. It is published by the International Council for Open and Distance Education - ICDE