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This report shares results and recommendations from a study of the capacity of Ontario’s public post-secondary institutions to support open educational practices (OEP). The report begins with a brief overview of open ...

Posted November 12, 2024

Into the Open: Shared Stories of Open Educational Practices in Teacher Education

DeWaard, Helen

Navigating through the Faculty of Education as a teacher educator in Canada is complex and complicated. Research literature calls for an intentional focus on media and digital literacies, and technological competencies, ...

Posted November 11, 2024

Scaffolding-informed design of open educational resources in Chinese secondary school mathematics: insights from multi-cycle formative evaluation

Huang, Xiaowei; Lo, Chung Kwan; He, Jiaju; Xu, Simin; Kinshuk

In the post-pandemic world, open educational resources (OER) have the potential to ensure educational equity by providing all students with access to learning materials and by supporting teachers’ instructional ...

Posted November 2, 2024

The Impact of OER’s Continuous Improvement Cycles on Students’ Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis of the RISE Framework

Castellanos-Reyes, Daniela; Camargo Salamanca, Sandra Liliana; Wiley, David

Open educational resources (OER) have been praised for revolutionizing education. However, practitioners and instructors battle keeping OER updated and measuring their impact on students’ performance. Few studies have ...

Posted October 30, 2024

Are We Asking Too Much of OER? A Conversation on OER from OE Global 2023

Flinn, Chad; Openo, Jason

This paper examines the pervasive discourse of disruption in OER literature by recounting a facilitated conversation hosted at the 2023 Open Education Global conference held in Edmonton, Alberta. This dialogue used ...

Posted October 30, 2024

The Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook

Band, Jonathan; Gerafi, Jonathan

More than 40 countries with over one-third of the world’s population have fair use or fair dealing provisions in their copyright laws. These countries are in all regions of the world and at all levels of development. ...

Posted October 25, 2024

Teacher Education Lecturers' Views of Open Educational Resources: A Case of South African Universities

Setshedi, Justinus R.; Van Wyk, Micheal

Literature reflects that universities freely share their teaching materials as Open Educational Resources (OER). The major objective of this study was to investigate lecturers at faculties of education views of the ...

Posted October 18, 2024

Finding Free OER Textbooks Online: Untangling the Web

Walters, William H.

Although Open Educational Resources (OERs) can help reduce costs and maximize access to instructional materials, academics face significant problems in identifying good OER textbooks. This can be traced, in part, to the ...

Posted October 18, 2024

Design of MOOC "Innovative Teaching: Essentials of Digital Creativity and Hybrid Learning" for providing micro-credential for educators

Osadcha, Kateryna P.; Osadchyi, Viacheslav V.; Krasheninnik, Iryna V.; Chorna, Alona V.; Kuzminska, Olena H.

The article presents the preliminary results of the research conducted as part of the Erasmus+ project 101082858 CRED4TEACH “MOOC-based micro-credentials for teacher professional development”. Some contradictions of ...

Posted October 18, 2024

Open Learning and Learning at Scale: The Legacy of MOOCs

Goshtasbpour, Fereshte; Cornock, Matt; Swinnerton, Bronwen; Harris, Lisa; Ferguson, Rebecca; Scanlon, Eileen

This paper provides an introduction to the special collection. It presents a summary of the last decade in relation to research on MOOCs and describes the FutureLearn Academic Network (FLAN), which brought together ...

Posted September 25, 2024