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Open Educational Resources

Recent Articles

Here are five recent articles on Open Educational Resources (OER):

  1. Rolfe, V., & Kear, K. (2021). The use of open educational resources in higher education: A review of literature. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(4), 449-470.

  2. Jhangiani, R. S., Dastur, F. N., Le Grand, R., & Penner, K. (2018). As Good or Better than Commercial Textbooks: Students' Perceptions and Outcomes from Using Open Digital and Open Print Textbooks. Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9(1), n1.

  3. Hilton III, J. (2020). Open educational resources, student efficacy, and user perceptions: a synthesis of research published between 2015 and 2018. Educational Technology Research and Development, 68(3), 853-876.

  4. Tang, H., & Bao, Y. (2022). A diagnostic classification model of college instructors’ value beliefs towards open educational resources. Education and Information Technologies, 1-20.

  5. Jenkins, J. J., Sánchez, L. A., Schraedley, M. A., Hannans, J., Navick, N., & Young, J. (2020). Textbook Broke: Textbook Affordability as a Social Justice Issue. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 1(3), 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jime.549

Seminal Research Studies on OER

Here are some studies about the effectiveness of Open Educational Resources (OER):

1. Wiley, D. A., & Hilton III, J. L. (2018). Defining OER-enabled pedagogy. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(4), 133-147.

2. Hilton III, J. L., Wiley, D., Chaffee, R., & Darrow, J. (2019). Examining the reuse of open textbooks. Educational Researcher, 48(7), 343-356.

3. Hilton III, J. L., Fischer, L., Wiley, D., & Williams, L. (2016). Maintaining momentum toward graduation: OER and the course throughput rate. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 17(6), 18-27.

4. Bliss, T. J., Hilton III, J. L., Wiley, D. A., & Thanos, K. (2013). The cost and quality of online open textbooks: Perceptions of community college faculty and students. First Monday, 18(1).

5. Rolfe, V. (2012). Open educational resources: Staff attitudes and awareness. Research in Learning Technology, 20.

6. Bliss, T. J., Robinson, T. J., Hilton III, J. L., & Wiley, D. A. (2013). An OER COUP: College teacher and student perceptions of open educational resources. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2013(1).

7. Wiley, D., Bliss, T. J., & McEwen, M. (2014). Open educational resources: A review of the literature. In Handbook of research on educational communications and technology (pp. 781-789). Springer New York.