Accessibility

Rets, I., Coughlan, T., Stickler, U., & Astruc, L. (2020). Accessibility of open educational resources: how well are they suited for English learners? Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2020.1769585.

Zhang, X., Tlili, A., Nascimbeni, F., Burgos, D., Huang, R., Chang, T.-W.,….& Khribi, M.K. (2020). Accessibility within open educational resources and practices for disabled learners: a systematic literature review. Smart Learning Environments 7: 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40561-019-0113-2

Adoption

Chiappe, A., & Arias, V. (2015). Understanding reusability as a key factor for open education: A review. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 16(1), 40–56. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v16i1.2042

Guo, Y., Zhang, M., Bonk, C. J., & Li. Y. (2015). Chinese faculty members’ open educational resources (OER) usage status and the barriers to OER development and usage. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 10(5), 59-65. https://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jet/article/view/4819

Mtebe, J.S., & Raisamo, R. (2014). Challenges and instructors’ intention to adopt and use open educational resources in higher education in Tanzania. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v15i1.1687

Nascimbeni, F.,& Burgos, D. (2016). In search for the open educator: Proposal of a definition and framework to increase openness adoption among university educators. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 17(6). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v17i6.2736

Onalfo, D. (2016). Alternate academy: Investigating the use of open educational resources by students at the University of Lagos in Nigeria. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository, 4086. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/4086

Rodés, V., Podetti, M., Hernández, Y., & Collazos, C. (2014). Strategies for the adoption of open textbooks: The Latin American open textbooks initiative. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 17(2), 76–85. https://doi.org/10.2478/eurodl-2014-0020

Advocacy

Weller, M. (2013). The battle for open – a perspective. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2013(3), p.Art.15. doi:10.5334/2013-15

Collaboration

de Langen, F.H.T.  (2018). Sustainability of open education through collaboration. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(5). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3548/4799

Creative Commons licences

Hagedorn, G., Mietchen, D., Morris, R.A., Agosti, D., Penev, L., Berendsohn, W.G.,& Hobern, D. (2011). Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the reuse of biodiversity information. ZooKeys, 150, 127-149. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.150.2189

Disabilities

Genç, H., & Koçdar, S. (2020). Determining needs and priorities of learners with special needs for support services in an open and distance learning context in Turkey. Open Praxis, 12(3), 359-382. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.12.3.1102

Efficacy and student outcomes

Conole, G., & Brown, M. (2018). Reflecting on the impact of the open education movement. Journal Of Learning For Development – JL4D, 5(3). https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/314/346

Pitt, R., Ebrahimi, N., McAndrew, P., & Coughlan, T. (2013). Assessing OER impact across organisations and learners: experiences from the Bridge to Success project. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, OER 2013 Special Issue. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.12310/abstract

Equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI)

Koseoglu, S., Ozturk, T., Ucar, H., Karahan, E., & Bozkurt, A. (2020). 30 Years of gender inequality and implications on curriculum design in open and distance learning. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1), 5. http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.553

Ossiannilsson, E. (2019). OER and OEP for access, equity, equality, quality, inclusiveness, and empowering lifelong learning. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, Vol. 1 (2). https://www.ijoer.org/oer-and-oep-for-access-equity-equality-quality-inclusiveness-and-empowering-lifelong-learning

Funding

Müller, F. J. (2019, May 23). Opportunities and challenges of state-financed open educational resources: The Norwegian model – a way to more inclusion? SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/7325g

General

Bozkurt, A., et al. (2020). A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 Pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis. Asian Journal of Distance Education, 15(1). http://asianjde.org/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/462/307

Brunton, J., Farrell, O., Costello, E., Delaney, L., Foley, C., & Brown, M. (2019). Duelling identities in refugees learning through open, online higher education. Open Praxis, 11(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.4.1018

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

Jeong, H. (2019). Rethinking open universities. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 20(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i4.4163

Kursun, E., Cagiltay, K., & Can, G. (2014). An investigation of faculty perspectives on barriers, incentives, and benefits of the OER movement in Turkey. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 15(6). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v15i6.1914

Marín, V., Bond, M., Zawacki-Richter, O., Aydin, C., Bedenlier, S., Bozkurt, A., Conrad, D., Jung, I., Kondakci, Y., Prinsloo, P., Qayyum, A., Roberts, J., Sangrà, A., Slagter van Tryon, P., Veletsianos, G., & Xiao, J. (2020). A Comparative Study of National Infrastructures for Digital (Open) Educational Resources in Higher Education. Open Praxis, 12(2), 241-256. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.12.2.1071

Niezen, G., Eslambolchilar, P., & Thimbleby, H. (2016). Open-source hardware for medical devices. BMJ innovations, 2(2), 78–83. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjinnov-2015-000080

Okada, A., & Ferreira, G. (2012). Co-authorship in the age of cyberculture: Open Educational Resources at the Open University of the United Kingdom. Revista Teias, 13(30) pp. 327–353. http://oro.open.ac.uk/41722/

Rabin, E., Kalman, Y.<., & Kals, M. (2019). The cathedral’s ivory tower and the open education bazaar – catalyzing innovation in the higher education sector. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 35(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2019.1662285

Souto-Otero, M., Inamorato dos Santos, A., Shields, R., Lažetić, P., Castaño Muñoz, J., Devaux, A., Oberheidt, S., & Punie, Y. (2016).  OpenCases: Case studies on openness in education. Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Joint Research Centre, European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/opencases-case-studies-openness-education

Moore, S. (2019). Revisiting ‘the 1990s debutante’: scholar-led publishing and the pre-history of the open access movement (postprint). Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/41h8-j423

Natale, E. (2019). In open access’s long shadow – A view from the Humanities. 027.7 Zeitschrift für Bibliothekskultur / Journal for Library Culture, 6(1), 25-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.12685/027.7-6-1-184

Weller, M., Jordan, K., DeVries, I., & Rolfe, V. (2018). Mapping the open education landscape: citation network analysis of historical open and distance education research. Open Praxis, 10(2), 109-126. doi:10.5944/openpraxis.10.2.822

Instructional designers (ID)

Merkel, E., & Cohen, A. (2015). OER usage by instructional designers and training managers in corporations. Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 11, 237–256. https://doi.org/10.28945/2307

Libraries/librarians

Santos-Hermosa, G., Proudman, V., & Corti, P. (2021). Open Education in European Libraries of Higher Education (2021 report). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5734980

Open educational practices (OEP)/pedagogy

Atenas, J., & Havemann, L. (Eds.). (2015). Open data as Open educational resources: Case studies of emerging practice. London: Open Knowledge, Open Education Working Group. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1590031

Attwell, G., & Pumilia, P. M. (2007). The new pedagogy of open content: Bringing together production, knowledge, development, and learning. Data Science Journal, 6, S211-S219. doi:10.2481/dsj.6.S211

Beetham, H., Falconer, I., McGill, L., & Littlejohn, A. (2012). Open practices: A briefing paper. JISC. Retrieved from https://oersynth.pbworks.com/w/page/51668352/OpenPracticesBriefing

Cardoso, P., Morgado, L., Teixeira, A. (2019). Open practices in public higher education in Portugal: faculty perspectives. Open Praxis, 11(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.1.823

Cronin, C. (2017). Openness and praxis: Exploring the use of open educational practices in higher education. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(5). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i5.3096

Ehlers, U-D.,& Conole, G.C. (2010). Open educational practices: Unleashing the power of OER. ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260423350_Open_Educational_Practices_Unleashing_the_power_of_OER

Ehlers, U. D. (2011). Extending the territory: From open educational resources to open educational practices. Journal of Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning, 15(2), 1-10.

Falconer, I., McGill, L., Littlejohn, A., & Boursinou, E. (2013). Overview and analysis of practices with open educational resources in adult education in Europe. Publications Office of the European Union. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/overview-and-analysis-practices-open-educational-resources-adult-education-europe

Farrow, R. (2016). A framework for the ethics of open education. Open Praxis, 8(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpr axis.8.2.291

Farrow, R. (2015). Open education and critical pedagogy. Learning, Media and Technology, 42(2), 130-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2016.1113991

Koseoglu, S., & Bozkurt, A. (2018). An exploratory literature review on open educational practices, Distance Education, 39:4,441-461, DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2018.1520042

Maina, M.F., Santos-Hermosa, G., Mancini, F., & Ortiz, L.G. (2020). Ascertaining impacts of capacity building in open educational practices. Distance Education, 41(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757406

Maina, M.F., Santos-Hermosa, G., Mancini, F., & Ortiz, L.G. (2020). Open educational practices (OEP) in the design of digital competence assessment. Distance Education, 41(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757407

Nascimbeni, F., Burgos, D., Campbell, L. M., & Tabacco, A. (2018). Institutional mapping of open educational practices beyond use of open educational resources. Distance Education, 39(4), 511-527. doi:10.1080/01587919.2018.1520040

Perryman, L.-A. & de los Arcos, B. (2016). Women’s empowerment through openness: OER, OEP and the Sustainable Development Goals. Open Praxis, 8(2).

Pitt, R., Jordan, K., de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., & Weller, M. (2020). Supporting open educational practices through open textbooks. Distance Education, 41(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757411

Pulker, H., & Kukulska-Hulme, A. (2020). Openness re-examined: Teachers’ practices with open educational resources in online language teaching. Distance Education, 41(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757412

Weller, M., de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Pitt, B., & McAndrew, P. (2015). The impact of OER on teaching and learning rractice. Open Praxis, 7(4), 351-361. doi:10.5944/openpraxis.7.4.227

Open educational resources (OER)

Atieno Adala, A. (2016). Current State of Advancement of Open Educational Resources in Kenya. Moscow: UNESCO. https://iite.unesco.org/pics/publications/en/files/3214744.pdf

Baas, M., Schuwer, R., van den Berg, E. et al. The role of brokers in cultivating an inter-institutional community around open educational resources in higher education. High Educ (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00876-y

Buckler, A., Perryman, L.-A.,  Seal, T. and Musafir, S. (2014). The role of OER localisation in building a knowledge partnership for development: insights from the TESSA and TESS-India teacher education projects. Open Praxis, 6(3): 221–233. http://oro.open.ac.uk/40814/

Deimann, M. & Farrow, R. (2013).  Rethinking OER and their use: Open education as Bildung. International Review of Online and Distance Learning, 14(3). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1370/2542

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., Agre, G., & Angelova, G. (2015). Trends and opportunities in computer science OER development. Cybernetics and Information Technologies, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2015-0045

Dimitar, P. (2010). Open educational resources and open access in higher education in Macedonia. http://eprints.rclis.org/16131/1/Open%20Educational%20Resources%20and%20OpenAccess%20in%20Higher%20Education%20in%20Macedonia.PDF

Farrow, R., Pitt, R., de los Arcos, B., Perryman, L.-A., Weller, M. and McAndrew, P. (2015). Impact of OER use on teaching and learning: Data from OER Research Hub (2013–2014). British Journal of Educational Technology, 46 (5): 972–976. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12310

Fitzgerald, A. (2013). TOETOE International: FLAX Weaving with Oxford Open Education Resources. UK: The Higher Education Academy. https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets.creode.advancehe-document-manager/documents/hea/private/hub/download/toetoe_international_flax_weaving_with_o_1568037502.pdf

Ivins, T. (2009). Localization of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Nepal: Strategies of Himalayan Knowledge-Workers. Dissertation. http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd4349

Masterman, L, & Wild, J. (2011). OER impact study: Research report. JISC Open Educational Resources Programme: Phase 2. University of Oxford. https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/ca5599e6-fd26-4203-b416-f1b96068d1cf/Research%20Project%20Reports/OER%20Projects%202011-2014/JISC%20OER%20Impact%20Study%20Research%20Report%20v1-0.pdf

Nikoi, S., & Armellini, A. (2012). The OER mix in higher education: Purpose, process, product, and policy. Distance Education, 33(2), 165–184. https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2012.697439

Perryman, L.-A., Buckler, A. and Seal, T. (2014). Learning from TESS-India’s approach to OER localisation across multiple Indian states. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2(7). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.12310/abstract

Risquez, A., McAvinia, C., Desmond, Y., Bruen, C., Ryan, D., & Coughlan, A. (2020). Towards a devolved model of management of OER? The case of the Irish higher education sector. International Review or Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 21(1). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/download/4545/5272?inline=1

Scanlon, E. (2012). Open educational resources in support of science learning: Tools for inquiry and observation. Distance Education, 33(2), 221–236. https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2012.692053

Stracke, C.M., Downes, S., Conole, G., Burgos, D., & Nascimbeni, F. (2019). Are MOOCs open educational resources? A literature review on history, definitions and typologies of OER and MOOCs. Open Praxis, 11(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.4.1010

Tlili, A., Huang, R., Chang, T.-W., Nascimbeni, F., & Burgos, D. (2019). Open Educational Resources and Practices in China: A Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability, 11(18), 4867. doi:10.3390/su11184867

Weller, M., Jordan, K., DeVries, I., Rolfe, V. (2018). Mapping the open education landscape: Citation network analysis of historical open and distance education research. Open Praxis, 10(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.10.2.822

Open monographs

Adema, J. (2019). Towards a roadmap for open access monographs. Knowledge Exchange 2019. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2644997

Open peer review/peer review

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

Dandieu, C., & HIRMEOS Consortium. (2019). Report on post-publication open peer review experiment (Version 1). Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/record/3275651#.Xk8CFhd7lBw

Open textbooks

Pitt, R. (2015). Mainstreaming Open Textbooks: Educator Perspectives on the Impact of OpenStax College open textbooks. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 16 (4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2381

Perception/attitude/awareness

Harold, S., Rolfe, V. (2019). “I find the whole enterprise daunting” Staff understanding of open education initiatives with a UK university. Open Praxis, 11(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.1.918

Nkwenti, M.N., & Abeywardena, I.S. (2019). OER mainstreaming in Cameroon: Perceptions and barriers. Open Praxis, 11(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.3.981

Ozdemir, O., & Bonk, C. J. (2017). Turkish teachers’ awareness and perceptions of open educational resources. Journal of Learning for Development, 4(3), 309-321. http://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/224/273

Rolfe, V. (2012). Open educational resources: staff attitudes and awareness. Research in Learning Technology, 20. doi: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0/14395

Policy

Atenas, J., Havemann, L., Nascimbeni, F., Villar-Onrubia, D., & Orlic, D. (2019). Fostering openness in education: Considerations for sustainable policy-making. Open Praxis, 11(2), 167-183. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.2.947

Inamorato dos Santos, A. (2017). Going open: Policy recommendations on open education in Europe. JRC Science for Policy Report, European Commission.

Inamorato does Santos, A., Nascimbeni, F., Bacsich, P., Atenas, J., Aceto, S., Burgos, D., & Punie, Y. (2017). Policy approaches to open education – Case studies from 28 EU member states . JRC Technical Reports. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/policy-approaches-open-education-case-studies-28-eu-member-states-openedu-policies

Kalman, Y. M. (2017). Open educational resources: Policy, costs, and transformation. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i3.3108

Mulder, F. (2013). The logic of national policies and strategies for open educational resources. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 14(2), 96–105. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v14i2.1536

Wiens, K., & Tarkowski, A. (eds). (2016). Global open policy report. Open Policy Network. Mountain View, CA: Creative Commons.

Foundations for OER strategy development. (2015, November 18). Version 1.0 (Word.)

Publishers/publishing

Arimoto, M. M., Barroca, L., & Barbosa, E. F. (2016). Am-OER: An agile method for the development of open educational resources. Informatics in Education, 15(2), 205–233, doi: 10.15388/infedu.2016.11

Ross-Hellauer, T., Fecher, B., Shearer, K., & Rodrigues, E. (2019). Pubfair: A Distributed Framework for Open Publishing Services, version 2. Confederation of Open Access Repositories. https://www.coar-repositories.org/files/Pubfair-version-2-November-27-2019-2.pdf

Weller, Martin (2012). The openness-creativity cycle in education: a perspective. Journal of Interactive Media in Education. http://jime.open.ac.uk/articles/10.5334/2012-02/

Quality

Atenas, J., & Havemann, L. (2013). Quality assurance in the open: An evaluation of OER repositories. The International Journal for Innovation and Quality in Learning.

Mathes, J. (2019). Global Quality in Online, Open, Flexible and Technology Enhanced Education. Oslo, Norway: International Council for Open and Distance Education. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b99664675f9eea7a3ecee82/t/5d2476fbe6f76d00010499a3/156267084603/ICDE+Global+Quality+in+Online+Open+Flexible+and+Technology+Enhanced+Final+REPORT+2018-min.pdf

Reading: paper vs. screens

Mangen, A., Walgermo, B.R., & Bronnick, K.K. (2013). Reading linear texts on paper versus computer screen: Effects on reading comprehension. International Journal of Educational Research, 58: 61-18. doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2012.12.002

Remixing/Revising OER

Baas, M., & Schuwer, R. (2020). What About Reuse? A Study on the Use of Open Educational Resources in Dutch Higher Education. Open Praxis, 12(4), 527-540. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.12.4.1139

Coughlan, T., Pitt, R., & McAndrew P. (2013). Building pen bridges: Collaborative remixing and reuse of open educational resources across organisations. >CHI ’13: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp 991–1000. https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466127

Scholarship

Tennant, J., Agarwal, R., Baždarić, K., Brassard, D., Crick, T., Dunleavy, D. J., … Yarkoni, T. (2020, March 6). A tale of two ‘opens’: intersections between Free and Open Source Software and Open Scholarship. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/2kxq8

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

Bali, M., Cronin, C., & Jhangiani, R. S. (2020). Framing open educational practices from a social justice perspective. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1), 10. http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.565

Charitonos, K., Albuerne Rodriguez, C., Witthaus, G., & Bossu, C. (2020). Advancing social justice for asylum seekers and refugees in the UK: An open education approach to strengthening capacity through Refugee Action’s Frontline Immigration Advice Project. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1), 11. http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.563

Urbančič, T., Polajnar, A., & Jermol, M. (2019). Open education for a better world: A mentoring programme fostering design and reuse of open educational resources for sustainable development goals. Open Praxis, 11(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.4.1026

Student support

Farrow, R., de los Arcos, B., Pitt, R., & Weller, M. (2015). Who are the open learners? A comparative study profiling non-formal users of open educational resources. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning, 18(2). http://oro.open.ac.uk/4496

Sustainability

UNESCO: Data for the sustainable development goals, education and literacy

Tenure

Alperin, J.P., Nieves, C.M., Schimanski, L.A., Fischman, G.E., Niles, M.T. & McKiernan, A. (2019). Meta-research: How significant are the public dimensions of faculty work in review, promotion and tenure documents? eLife, 8(e42254). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42254.001