Adoption

Hodgkinson-Williams, C.A. (2014). Degrees of ease: Adoption of OER, open textbooks and MOOCs in the Global South. Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources (2nd : 2014 : Wawasan Open University, Malaysia). University of Cape Town. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/1188

Murphy, A. (2013). Open educational practices in higher education: institutional adoption and challenges. Distance Education, 34(2), 201-217. https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2013.793641

Equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI)

Lambert, S.R. (2019). Do MOOCs contribute to student equity and social inclusion? A systematic review 2014-18. Computers & Education, 145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2019.103693

General

Hoosen, S., & Butcher, N. (2019). Understanding the impact of OER: Achievements and challenges. Moscow, Russia: UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education. https://iite.unesco.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Understanding_the_impact_of_OER_2019_final.pdf

Iniesto, F., Pitt, B., Weller, M., Farrow, R., Cronin, C., Funk, J., Lambert, S., Nerantzi, C., Paskevicius, M., Pete, J., Roberts, V., Rodés, V. and Vladimirschi, V. (2022). The GO-GN Fellowship reflections report. Global OER Graduate Network https://go-
gn.net/gogn_outputs/fellowship-reflections-report

Open educational practices (OEP)/pedagogy

Baran, E., & AlZoubi, D. (2020). Affordances, challenges, and impact of open pedagogy: Examining students’ voices.  Distance Education, 41(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757409

Czerwonogora, A., & Rodés, V. (2019). PRAXIS: Open educational practices and open science to face the challenges of critical educational action research. Open Praxis, 11(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.4.1024

Hegarty, B. (2015). Attributes of open pedagogy: A model for using open educational resources. ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281286900_Attributes_of_Open_Pedagogy_A_Model_for_Using_Open_Educational_Resources

Murphy, A. (2013). Open educational practices in higher education: Institutional adoption and challenges. Distance Education, 34(2), 201–217. https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2013.793641

Open educational resources (OER)

OER research in Africa

Bozkurt, A., Koseoglu, S.,& Singh, L. (2019). An analysis of peer reviewed publications on openness in education in half a century: Trends and patterns in the open hemisphere. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 35(4). https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.4252.

Prasad, D., & Usagawa, T. (2014). Towards development of OER derived custom-built open textbooks: A baseline survey of university teachers at the University of the South Pacific. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 14(4).

Policy

OER Policies in Africa

Publishers/publishing

Lambert, S. (2019). The Siyavula case: Digital, collaborative text-book authoring to address educational disadvantage and resource shortage in South African schools. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 11(3), 279-290. doi: 10.26822/iejee.2019349252

Social justice

Adam, T. (2020). Between social justice and decolonisation: Exploring South African MOOC designers’ conceptualisations and approaches to addressing injustices. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1), 7. http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.557

Cox, G., Masuku, B., & Willmers, M. (2020). Open textbooks and social justice: Open educational practices to address economic, cultural and political injustice at the University of Cape Town. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1), 2. http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.556

Funk, J., & Guthadjaka, K. (2020). Indigenous authorship on open and digital platforms: Social justice processes and potential. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1), 6. http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.560

Hodgkinson-Williams, C.A., Trotter, H. (2018). A social justice framework for understanding open educational resources and practices in the Global South. Journal of Learning for Development, 5(3). https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/312/340

Lambert, S. R. (2018). Changing our (dis)course: A distinctive social justice aligned definition of open education. Journal of Learning for Development, 5(3). Retrieved from https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/290/334

Sustainability

Ganapathi, J. (2019). User-generated content’s impact on the sustainability of open educational resources. International Council for Open and Distance Education, 11(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.2.941

Teaching and Learning Centres

Czerniewicz, L. (2021). Changing Centres of Teaching and Learning an analytical review Cape Town: UCT. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33848