Research on Open Educational Resources
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Page Contents
Economic Impact
Learning Outcomes
Discoverability
Student Perceptions about OER
Faculty Perceptions of OER
Factors influencing the adoption of OER
Older Studies
Economic Impact
[2017] Assessing the Savings from Open Educational Resources on Student Academic Goals
[2017] Saving Students Money
[2017] The Adoption of an Open Textbook in a Large Physics Course: An Analysis of Cost, Outcomes, Use, and Perceptions
[2016] Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs, and Transformation
Learning Outcome
[2019] Bookworms Case Study Report
[2018] The infrastructure of Openness: Results from a Multiple-Institutional Survey on OER Platforms
[2018] OER courses can boost engagement, new study says
[2018] The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics
[2017] Measures of student success with textbook transformations: the Affordable Learning Georgia Initiative
[2016] Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research on efficacy and perceptions
[2015] A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students
[2015] The Effects of Open Educational Resource Adoption on Measures of Post-Secondary Student Success
[2014] A Study on Open Educational Resources and Their Potential for Use at Texas Colleges and Universities, 2014 by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Discoverability
[2017] The RISE Framework: Using Learning Analytics to Automatically Identify Open Educational Resources for Continuous Improvement
[2016] Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education
[2015] Cross-border Content: Investigation into Sharing Curricula across Borders and its Opportunities for Open Education Resources
[2015] Open Educational Resources A CATALYST FOR INNOVATION
Student Perception about OER
[2018] As Good or Better than Commercial Textbooks: Students’ Perceptions and Outcomes from Using Open Digital and Open Print Textbooks
[2017] Student Perceptions of college faculty who use OER
[2017] Student and Faculty Perceptions of OpenStax in High Enrollment Courses
[2017] Investigating the Perceptions, Use, and Impact of Open Textbooks: A survey of Post-Secondary Students in British Columbia
[2013] Online and Campus College Students Like Using an Open Educational Resource Instead of a Traditional Textbook
[2013] An OER COUP: College Teacher and Student Perceptions of Open Educational Resources
Faculty Perceptions of OER
[2017] Student and Faculty Perceptions of OpenStax in High Enrollment Courses
[2017] Higher Education Faculty Perceptions of Open Textbook Adoption, 2017
[2015] Mainstreaming Open Textbooks: Educator Perspectives on the Impact of OpenStax College Open Textbooks
[2013] Sharing teaching and learning resources: perceptions of University's Faculty members university’s faculty members
Factors Influencing the Adoption of OER
[2017] Factors Influencing Faculty Innovation and Adoption of Open Educational Resources in the United States Higher Education
[2016] Incentives and barriers to OER adoption: A Qualitative Analysis of Faculty perceptions
[2015] Removing the Barriers to Adoption of Social OER Environments