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OER: Faculty Guide to Open Educational Resources

An introduction to openeducational resources

Research and Reports

Open Education Group: Review Project
"This review provides a summary of all known empirical research on the impacts of OER adoption..."
Babson Research Group Reports
Freeing the Textbook: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2018
Christopher N. Lawrence & Julie A. Lester (2018) Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adopting Open Educational Resources in an Introductory American Government Course, Journal of Political Science Education, 14:4, 555-566, DOI: 10.1080/15512169.2017.1422739
Jung, E., Bauer, C., & Heaps, A. (2017). Higher Education Faculty Perceptions of Open Textbook Adoption. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3120
Ozdemir, O., & Hendricks, C. (2017). Instructor and student experiences with open textbooks, from the California open online library for education (Cool4Ed). Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 29(1), 98–113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-017-9138-