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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

OER Policy Development at St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies
Rory McGreal
Open Educational Resources (OER) have been recognized by UNESCO as important tools supporting the achievement of Strategic Development Goals (SDG) and by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) realizing SDG 4 Education for ...
Posted August 20, 2024

Facets of Openness in a Serious Game: Opening up Format, Content, Software and Hardware
Persico, Donatella; Pozzi, Francesca
This paper advocates the claim that open licenses and open-source software are not enough to overcome the barriers to adoption of technologically innovative Open Educational Resources for educational institutions like ...
Posted August 6, 2024

Awareness, attitudes, skills, and open educational resources usage among open and distance learners
Smart, E. Ambrose; Ogbomo, Esoswo Francisca; Akporhonor, Blessing Amina
Background of the study: Open Educational Resources (OER) are adjudged to be of tremendous benefit to open and distance learners due to the nature of their academic programs. However, a number of factors will determine ...
Posted August 4, 2024