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Quality Criteria for Online Courses Development
Al Abri, Maimoona; Elhaj, Abdelrahman
The rapid growth of online education has brought to the forefront the critical need for designing high-quality online courses that effectively engage learners and facilitate their success in the digital realm. This ...
Posted May 31, 2025

Undergraduate Learning Gains and Learning Efficiency in a Focused Open Education Resource
Spencer, Chrissy; Angra, Aakanksha; Dósa, Kata; Jones, Abigail
The high cost of commercial textbooks in higher education creates barriers to equitable access to learning materials and negatively impacts student performance. Open educational resources (OER) offer a cost-effective ...
Posted May 31, 2025

What Did We Learn About Massive Open Online Courses for Teachers? A Scoping Review
Anghel, Ella; Littenberg-Tobias, Joshua; Von Davier, Matthias
The growing interest in professional development for teachers via massive open online courses (MOOCs) raises the need for identifying the existing gaps in the literature on the topic. In this literature review, we were ...
Posted May 31, 2025

Teacher Perspective on MOOC Evaluation and Competency-Based Open Learning
Chang, Wen-Li; Sun, Jerry Chih-Yuan
Quality MOOCs (massive open online courses) ensure open learning under the top-down guidance of established criteria and standards. With an evaluative approach, course providers can use the guiding frameworks in ...
Posted May 31, 2025

Can online learning be scaled using a frugal approach?
Mishra, Sanjaya
Online learning need not be costly for learners and institutions. This reflective paper analyses four case studies from the Commonwealth of Learning to show the low cost of online learning, adopting a frugal approach ...
Posted May 31, 2025

Open Education Resources for Higher Education: A Bibliometric Analysis With Scopus Database 2004–2023
Tran Long, Dang
This study employs bibliometric analysis to examine scientific literature on Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education, utilizing data collected from the Scopus database from 2004 to 2023. The analysis, ...
Posted May 10, 2025

Students as Co-Authors: Achievement Emotions, Beliefs About Writing, and OER Publishing Decisions
Kelly, Alison E.; Avila, Brittany N.; Schell, Alissa C.
Faculty interest in open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy has grown over the past several years. The current study examined how achievement emotions and beliefs about writing influenced students’ ...
Posted April 25, 2025

Elementary STEM Teachers' Open Educational Resources and TPACK in a Professional Learning Network: A Case Study
Park, Yujin; Moon, Jewoong; Na, Hunhui
There has been growing attention on investigating elementary STEM teachers' Professional Learning Networks (PLNs). However, what types of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Technological, Pedagogical, and Content ...
Posted April 23, 2025

How Do AI Educators Use Open Educational Resources? A Cross-Sectoral Case Study on OER for AI Education
Rampelt, Florian; Ruppert, Raffael; Schleiss, Johannes; Mah, Dana-Kristin; Bata, Katharina; Egloffstein, Marc
Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy is essential for society as a whole. While general frameworks and resources to support self-directed learning on AI are widely available, research on how to support AI educators, ...
Posted April 21, 2025

Uncovering the black box effect of Open Educational Resources (OER) and practices (OEP): a meta-analysis and meta-synthesis from the perspective of activity theory
Tlili, Ahmed; Zhang, Xiangling; Lampropoulos, Georgios; Salha, Soheil; Garzón, Juan; Bozkurt, Aras; Huang, Ronghuai; Burgos, Daniel
Conflicting results exist in the literature on whether Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) can improve learning performance. Additionally, limited studies, in this context, have ...
Posted April 14, 2025