Research and Reports
15 Northern Hemisphere
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