Review and Attributions
Concept Thinking
Explore Further
Additional research and videos discussing the impact and benefits of OER for faculty and students are linked below.
- Clinton-Lisell, V., & Gwozdz, L. (2023). Understanding student experiences of renewable and traditional assignments. College Teaching, 71(2), 125–134.
- Colvard, N., Watson, C. & Park, H. (2018) The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Student Success Metrics. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 30 (2), 262-276.
- Grimaldi, P., Basu Mallick D., Waters A., Baraniuk, R. (2019, March 6) Do open educational resources improve student learning? Implications of the access hypothesis. PLOS|One.
- Hilton, J. (2016) Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research on efficacy and perceptions. Education Tech Research and Development, 64(4), 573 – 590.
- This video synthesizes the research results discussed in John Hilton’s article above, A Review of the Effectiveness & Perceptions of Open Educational Resources As Compared to Textbooks
- Reynado, Kharl. (2018, October 11) OER Diversity Discourse: Bring in the Student Advocates. OpenStax Blog.
- Schilling, Kaitlin. (2023, September 21). Beyond the Horizon: Broadening Our Understanding of OER Efficacy.
- Vézina, B. and Green, C. (2020, March 31) Education in Times of Crisis and Beyond: Maximizing Copyright Flexibilities. Creative Commons Blog.
- Watson, C. Edward and Rachel Rush-Marlowe. (2023). Making the Case for Open Educational Resources.
Attributions
Information for this unit was consulted and adapted from
- “An Introduction to Open Educational Resources” by Abbey Elder is licensed under CC BY 4.0
- “Leveraging the Benefits of OER” in Welcome to Understanding OER by SUNY OER Services is licensed under CC BY 4.0
- “Open Education” by SPARC is licensed under CC BY 4.0
- “Why Open Education?” by CCCOER is licensed under CC BY 4.0
- “A Woman Teaching” by sepyle86 in Flickr is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.
- Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay