Access codes/assessment platforms

Also see Homework systems on this page.

Access code costs continue to burden students – October 11, 2018 (BCcampus)

Accessibility

Accessibility in open educational resources is resilience – January 13, 2021 (Ksenia Cheinman, OER & Beyond)

Some things I’m learning about accessibility & open textbooks – January 11, 2020 (Christina Hendricks)

Trans-inclusive design – May 9, 2019 (Stephen Downes)

AI and OER

AI from an Open Perspective – August 10, 2023 (Paul Stacey)

Collaboration

Collaboration in hard times in higher education – December 9, 2019 (University Affairs)

Conferences

2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit Summary – May 10, 2019 (CCCOER, Dale Coleman)

Beyond Textbooks and OER: reflecting on #OpenEd15 – November 23, 2015 (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Copyright

Our Response To Canada’s Copyright Term Extension Consultation – March 9, 2021 (Creative Commons blog)

Two histories – May 19, 2020 (Fair Duty)

Federal court of appeal deals Access Copyright huge blow as it overturns York University copyright decision – April 23, 2020 (Michael Geist)

The authoritative Canadian copyright review: Industry committee issues balanced, forward-looking report on the future of Canadian Copyright Law – June 3, 2019 (Michael Geist)

What do trade agreements have to do with copyright? The Canada-US-Mexico Agreement and fair dealing – February 25, 2019 (SFU Library, Jennifer Zerkee)

From copyright term to Super Bowl commercials: Breaking down the digital NAFTA deal – October 1, 2018 (Michael Geist)

Video: Michael Geist on the impact of copyright and fair use on innovation – April 11, 2017 (Centre for International Governance Innovation)

Richard C. Owens: Fix Canada’s copyright law before it puts publishers out of business – July 26, 2016 (Financial Post)

Canadian judge says asking for a copy of a legally-obtained but paywalled article is circumvention – October 29, 2015 (Tech Dirt)

Creative Commons

A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator – January 4, 2022

Debt

Opinion: We need to rethink student loans across this country – August 31, 2019 (National Post)

Equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI)

Why open must be feminist – July 11, 2019 (Rebus Blog)

‘Open’ and ‘Inclusive’: what the heck are they? – July 3, 2019 (Medium)

General

The Alberta government fires the ‘non-compliant’ members of Athabasca University’s Board – October 6, 2022 (Tony Bates)

Who’s Zoomin’ Who? – April 1, 2020 (Ed Tech Factotum)

Digital Detox #1: EdTech and equity issues – January 5, 2020 (Digital Detox 2020)

More needs to be done to support teaching online in Canada – November 22, 2019 (Ed Tech Factotum)

From Lost to Belonging by Amanda Coolidge: OpenEd 2019 Keynote (transcript) and video – October 28, 2019 (BCcampus)

Whence the virtue of open – June 19, 2019 (Stephen Downes)

2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit wrap-up: 5 questions with the team – June 5, 2019 (Campus Manitoba)

What can open learn from blended learning initiatives? – March 14, 2019 (homonym.ca)

Beyond textbooks and OER: Reflecting on #OpenEd15 – November 23, 2015 (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Homework systems

The UBC Engineering WebWorK Project – November 27, 2019 (BCcampus)

BCcampus homework system project (Clint Lalonde, EdTech Factotum):

1. Early thoughts on my new homework systems project – July 17, 2019
2. What is a homework system – July 18, 2019
3. Spitballing a definition of open homework systems – July 19, 2019
4. Some strategies for the open homework systems project – September 6, 2019

Journals

The realities of journal publishing: A view from Canada’s not-for-profits – May 28, 2019 (University Affairs)

Libraries/librarians

Voodoo categorisation and dynamic ontologies in the world of OER – April 29, 2019 (MoodleNet)

Licences and subscriptions

Why does it cost millions to access publicly funded research papers? Blame the paywall – March 9, 2019 (CBC, Second Opinion)

Not a free for all: Canadian university libraries spending hundreds of millions on licensing – Sept 8/16 (Michael Geist)

Open educational practices (OEP)/pedagogy

How are we creating a safe space for open pedagogy? – May 30, 2019 (McToonish)

5Rs for open pedagogy – April 11, 2019 (Rajiv Jhangiani)

5 Things Alan Davis Wants you to Know About Open Learning – Fall 2018 (eCampusOntario)

Does open pedagogy require OER? – February 4, 2017 (ClintLalonde.net)
Engaging students with OER – June 13, 2015 (Christina Hendricks)

Open educational resources (OER)

USask academics channel ‘content creators’ to enhance student learning – July 7, 2022

The pandemic spotlight on open educational resources and open access – May 2021 (cAUt)

Initiation – July 2019 (the Guild – Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship)

How open educational resources fit within the future of education – May 16, 2019 (Campus Manitoba)

From idea to book: A Q&A on Manitoba’s next OER – April 23, 2019 (Campus Manitoba)

10 things to know about open education in Manitoba – March 8, 2019 (Campus Manitoba)

Some myths about open educational resources – November 27, 2015 (Contact North)

Open textbooks

Opinion: Investing in textbook alternatives makes post-secondary education more affordable – March 18, 2021 (Edmonton Journal)

Textbooks could be free if universities rewarded professors for writing them – November 6, 2019 (Phys Org)

Opinion: Investing in open textbooks will ease burden on students – November 13, 2019 (Edmonton Journal)

Policy

Evaluation of CL/4291 “Draft text of the Recommendation concerning Open Educational Resources”, UNESCO – December 5, 2019 (Stephen Downes)

Publishers/publishing

For-profit, faux-pen, and critical conversations about the future of learning materials – October 15, 2019 (Rajiv Jhangiani)

Publishing as an act, not an industry – November 18, 2018 (Zoe Wake Hyde)

Quality

Freedom of access versus maintenance of quality – April 5, 2019 (The Manitoban)

What is academic quality? – March 28, 2017 (Harvey P. Weingarten)

Reading: paper vs. screens

The business of textbooks or why do students prefer print? – August 9, 2013 (ClintLalonde.net)

Student societies/activities

#TextbookBroke promotes open-access but ignores copyright issues – January 8, 2019 (Hamilton Spectator)
Letter to the Editor: Last week’s column on the high cost of textbooks – September 4, 2018 (The Crow’s Nest)

Tenure

The tenure review process must evolve – August 12, 2021 (Inside Higher Ed), by Andrew McKinney and Amanda Coolidge

Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community – July 17, 2019 (LSE Impact Blog)

Textbook costs

In defence of the university textbook – September 23, 2020 (University Affairs)

The truth about textbooks – January 14, 2020 (The Brock Press)

SFU’s “Sharing of Textbook PDFs Fact Sheet” fails to consider students’ constraints – May 25, 2019 (The Peak)

Open textbooks vs. digital textbooks: How to make higher education more accessible in Manitoba – January 22, 2019 (Campus Manitoba)

Finance Committee recommends investment in open education resources to improve affordability of post-secondary – November 16, 2018 (BCFS)

To combat soaring textbook costs, look to an open-source approach – January 2, 2018 (Rajiv Jhangiani, The Globe and Mail/Opinion)

Tuition

OPINION:  Let universities get back to academic work – September 9, 2019 (The Chronicle Herald)

Access

The tyranny of unintended consequences: Richard Poynder on open access and the open access movement – November 25, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Can geowalling save open access? – November 14, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

When is open too open? – Piracy in education and rethinking test banks – May 17, 2019 (CCCOER, Liz Yates)

Access codes/assessment platforms

Also see General and Inclusive Access.

‘Paying to do your homework is just ridiculous’ The local and national fight for affordable textbooks – May 16, 2019 (The Daily, Claudia Yaw)

The need for an open assessment platform in higher education – October 29, 2018 (Medium, Robert Bodily)

Accessibility

Also see UDL

Equity, Inclusiveness, and Zero Embargo Public Access – October 4, 2022 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

OER for music textbooks: Alt text best practice – March 2021 (CCCOER)

Improving the digital accessibility of OER: A reflective guide – June 11, 2020 (Open Oregon)

Community college conversations about access, equity and quality in distance ed – Novembewr 30, 2019 (Phil on EdTech)

Can a health-insurance model bring ‘equitable access’ to the textbook market? – June 18, 2019 (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Adoption

Recognizing and overcoming obstacles: What it will take to realize the potential of OER – July 12, 2021 (Educause)

Going all in on OER – March 17, 2021 (Faculty Focus)

Reducing friction in OER adoption – February 10, 2020 (iterating toward openness)

OER survey and adoption growth: It pays to check source material – January 20, 2019 (e-Literate)

OER awareness and adoption on the rise – January 9, 2019 (Nicole Allen)

Advocacy

It’s a long game after all – August 21, 2019 (iterating toward openness)

AI and open education

Creative Commons – AI blogs

Booksellers/bookstores

6 Problems with OER access in campus bookstores – June 24, 2021 (Campus Technology)

Why a professor buys his books from the bookstore – August 20, 2019 (Another fine mess)

Affordable textbooks and independent college stores – May 10, 2019 (Open Oregon)

A Barnes & Noble experience – December 10, 2018 (Open Oregon)

Conferences

2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit Summary – May 10, 2019 (CCCOER, Dale Coleman)

Copyright

Global resilient OER: Building open resources that cross legal boundaries with the Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for OER – July 1, 2021 (OER & Beyond)

Our Response To Canada’s Copyright Term Extension Consultation – March 9, 2021 (Creative Commons blog)

Copyright limits and learning: Lessons from the COVID-19 quarantine – November 23, 2020 (Info Justice)

Public statement of library copyright specialists: Fair use & emergency remote teaching & research – March 13, 2020

Rights reversion success story: Dale Cannon – March 27, 2018 (Authors Alliance News)

Colleges shouldn’t have to deal with copyright monitoring – May 17, 2016 (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Courses/syllabi

Reclaiming and reinventing courseware series (eLiterate)

• A next-generation open source courseware platform collaboration – November 30, 2020
• A courseware platform for expressing pedagogical intent – January 7, 2021
• There’s a layer in between learning content and learning analytics – February 2, 2021

How much traction do open access/open educational resources have in the classroom? – October 6, 2020 (Open Syllabus Explorer)

Creative Commons/Creative Commons licences

Also see Publishers/publishing.

Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead – April 1, 2023 (Cory Doctorow)

Do not feed the trolls – February 8, 2022 (Creative Commons)

Creative Commons in Court – October 14, 2020 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Copyright, Creative Commons, and confusion – April 20, 2020 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Thoughts on “non-amicable” enforcement of CC licenses – January 15, 2020 (Creative Commons)

Message to the Creative Commons community regarding Joi Ito – September 10, 2019 (Creative Commons)

Joi Ito, director of MIT Media Lab, resigns over ties to Jeffrey Epstein – September 7, 2019 (MIT Technology Review)

Questioning the OER orthodoxy: Is the commons the right metaphor for our work with OER? – November 13, 2018 (David Wiley)

Three things you may misunderstand about the Creative Commons licenses – October 24, 2018 (David Wiley)

Advocating for CC BY – December 13, 2016 (iterating toward openness)

Defending noncommercial uses: Great Minds v Fedex Office – August 30, 2016 (Creative Commons)

Debt

How paying for college is changing middle-class life -Aug 30, 2019 (NY Times)

Changing the things I cannot accept – June 25, 2019 (Medium)

Visualizations of Program-Level College Scorecard Data on Student Debt – June 4, 2019 (Phil on EdTech)

Small dollar amounts are significant – March 15, 2019 (Open Oregon)

How open education relates to socioeconomics – October 29, 2018 (The NYU Dispatch)

Efficacy and student outcomes

Students favored OERs and would enroll in OER courses again – February 8, 2021 (UMBC blog)

Open educational resources: What we don’t know – November 14, 2018 (Inside Higher Ed)

Assessing the impact of open educational resources – January 4, 2018 (Teaching in Higher Ed, podcast)

Equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI)

Introducing Two New Toolkits to Advance Inclusion in Scholarly Communication: Part 1 – February 8, 2023 (The Scholary Kitchen)

Let’s support college student mothers during the pandemic — and beyond – August 2, 2021 (EdSurge)

How open education enables culturally responsive teaching – June 16, 2021 (Faculty Focus)

OpenStax making diversity updates – March 26, 2021 (Campus Technology)

Our approach to systemic racism in Open Education – November 10, 2020 (Hewlett Foundation)

Practitioner perspectives: OER and a call for equity – July 6, 2020 (New England Board of Higher Education Journal)

Can open educational resources foster equity in higher education? – January 28, 2020 (LMS Pulse)

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in OpenStax textbooks – August 29, 2019 (OpenStax Blog)

Leveraging open educational resources for queer students – June 24, 2019 (New America)

Could open educational resources help queer students? – October 22, 2018 (New America)

General

Changed, changed utterly – June 5, 2020 (Inside Higher Ed)

Comments on the US DoEd proposed rule – Open Textbook Pilot Program – April 23, 2020 (iterating toward openness)

Subscribe to open: A mutual assurance approach to open access – March 9, 2020 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics – January 12, 2020 (The New York Times)

Some thoughts about OER research – November 12, 2019 and An OpenEd conference update – October 30, 2019 (iterating toward openness)

Cacophony: Open ed, digital pedagogy lab, and the challenge of education conferences – November 7, 2019 (Sean Michael Morris)

It’s the end of OpenEd as we know it… – November 5, 2019 (The Piraeus)

The crumbling of the OpenEd coalition – November 4, 2019 (eLiterate)

Well that was a memorable OpenEd conference – November 2, 2019 (Phil on EdTech)

The future of learning materials – October 15, 2019 (Open Oregon)

For-profit, faux-pen, and critical conversations about the future of learning materials – October 15, 2019 (Rajiv Jhangiani)

Ramifications of the downward pressure on pricing – October 1, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Everything old is new again: Textbooks, the printing press, the internet, and OER – August 13, 2019 (iterating toward openness)

Creative learning as a renewable resource – July 20, 2019 (University World News)

An open invitation – July 2, 2019 (Inside Higher Ed)

From static to interactive and from open to free – May 8, 2019 (iterating toward openness)

Defining the invisible labour of OER (webinar: audio & chat transcripts) – April 29, 2019 (Rebus Community)

OER, CARE, stewardship, and the Commons – March 17, 2018 (Econproph)

Considering open education with an interdisciplinary lens – March 8, 2018 (Teaching in Higher Ed podcast)

Open education inspiration – December 14, 2017 (Teaching in Higher Ed podcast)

The OER content trap – February 18, 2017 (Econprof)

The consensus around “open” – January 29, 2016 (iterating toward openness)

Open access, open data, open science…what does “openness” mean in the first place? – February 11, 2015 (Somatosphere)

Wiley, D. (2010). Openness as catalyst for an educational reformation. Educause Review.

Chenen. M. (N.d.). Gift economies in the gig economy (slides).

Homework systems

Cooking with/as metaphor: The H5P/PB kitchen – August 19, 2020 (CogDogBlog)

OE and online homework systems – October 16, 2019 (Inside Higher Ed)

Inclusive access (IA)

If inclusive access is on the horizon, ask yourself these nine questions – July 31, 2019 (OpenStax)

Giving inclusive access a second look – July 25, 2019 (OpenStax)

Colleges are striking bulk deals with textbook publishers. Critics say there are many downsides – May 23, 2019 (EdSurge)

Journals

Retroactively Open: Elsevier Backflips for NERL Agreement – March 16, 2022 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Is it true that most open access journals do not charge an APC? Sort of. It depends. – August 26, 2015 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Libraries/librarians

Evaluating Open Access in a Consortial Context – May 14, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Licences and subscriptions

Feasibility, sustainability, and the subscribe-to-open model – April 20, 2021 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

When the wolf finally arrives: Big deal cancellations in North American libraries – May 11, 2017 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Monographs

Open access monographs: Building better infrastructure – June 20, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Open educational practices (OEP)/pedagogy

Open research in practice: Moving from why to how? – June 17, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Today’s context demands use of OER – February 27, 2019 (Inside Higher Ed)

Give your students edit access to their course syllabus – November 20, 2018 (opensource.com)

Igniting our imagination in digital learning and pedagogy – November 9, 2017 (Teaching in Higher Ed, podcast)

Supporting deeper learning through OER and open educational practice – October 16, 2017 (ISKME)

Quick thoughts on open pedagogy – February 23, 2017 (iterating toward openness)

My open textbook: Pedagogy and practice – May 18, 2016 (actualham)

Pedagogy, technology, and the example of open educational resources – November 9, 2015 (Educause Review)

Open educational resources (OER)

Time for OER – November 30, 2021 (Community College Daily)

Open educational resources: question answered – June 9, 2020 (New America)

Administrators should adopt OERs only after careful vetting – April 20, 2020 (The Tech Edvocate)

The next phase for Open Education – April 9, 2020 (Hewlett Foundation)

Actually, the UNECSO recommendation makes most OER impossible – March 9, 2020 (iterating toward openness)

Annual OER survey: Momentum continues to grow as landscape evolves – March 10, 2020 (SPARC)

Angela DeBarger of the Hewlett Foundation on OER – January 15, 2020 (Michelson 20MM)

Legally speaking: The complications of open educational resources – October 4, 2019 (Against the Grain)

Exploring the future of open educational resources – March 11, 2019 (Hewlett Foundation)

Using open educational resources in your teaching – November 3, 2016 (Teaching in Higher Ed, podcast)

Open educational practice: Unleashing the potential of OER – August 9, 2016 (EdSurge)

Open peer review

Open peer review in the humanities – March 4, 2020 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Open science

Open science and intellectual property: Using open licenses to open your science – January 27, 2021 (Wilson Center: Science and Technology Innovation Program)

Open textbooks

No one wants to pay $200 for a textbook – April 15, 2021 (EdScoop)

Transform higher education – make textbooks free – October 26, 2020 (EdSource)

Open textbooks, in more ways than one: Save money and increase educational diversity with high-quality, up-to-date, learning options – June 29, 2020 (Daily News)

An update to OhioLINK’s affordable textbooks initiative – February 11, 2020 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

How professors help rip off students – December 11, 2019 (New York Times)

Open access books: The first 100 books from John Hopkins University Project – October 11, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Internal contradictions with open access books –  June 4, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Governor Jerry Brown’s huge gift to California Community College students: Free textbooks – June 30, 2016 (Medium)

Open washing

What is ‘open’? Openwashing and the half-truths about openness – January 1, 2018 (ELearning Inside)

Partnerships

Also see Publishing/publishers on this page.

The Cengage-MHE merger and data danger – August 27, 2019 (eLiterate)

Carnegie Mellon and Lumen Learning announce EEP-relevant collaboration – April 15, 2019 (eLiterate)

Paying for OER

How to pay for open – December 20, 2017 (Open Oregon Educational Resources)

Platforms

Open source for scholarly publishing: An inventory and analysis – August 8, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Policy

Some very bad news about the UNESCO OER recommendation – December 2, 2019 (iterating toward openness)

Open education resources get international backing with UNESCO vote – November 27, 2019 (EdWeek Market Brief)

UNESCO recommendation on open educational resources (OER) – November 20, 2019 (infojustice.org)

Open and equitable scholarly communication: An ACRL research agenda – June 18, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

UNESCO OER recommendation: One step closer to adoption – June 4, 2019 (Creative Commons)

7 things you should know about open education: policies – 2018 (Educause)

Printing

Spotlight: Implementing publisher consignment rentals – March 6, 2019 (Foreword Online)

Public domain

Reproductions of public domain works should remain in the public domain – November 20, 2019 (Creative Commons)

Publishers/publishing

Also see Partnerships on this page.

How today’s curriculum content must change – July 13, 2021 (Market Scale)

SPARC crafts language in response to COVID-19 publisher offers – SPARC (2020)

Cengage/McGraw-Hill merger called off – May 4, 2020 (SPARC)

The “Pure Publish” agreement – February 20, 2020 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Architecting the future of open textbooks in Minneapolis – January 14, 2020 (Coko)

Why we should expand our OER advocacy to commercial publishers – November 18, 2019 (iterating toward openness)

Roadblocks to better open access models – October 9, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Textbook merger could create more problems than just higher prices – September 19, 2019 (The Conversation)

Questioning the textbook rep culture – September 18, 2019 (Inside Higher Ed)

Pearson’s born-digital move and frequency of updates – July 18, 2019 (e-Literate)

Pearson’s digital-first textbook initiative and student choice – July 16, 2019 (Phil on Ed Tech)

Why is it so hard to solve problems with technology? – June 6, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Internal contradictions with open access books – June 4, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Editing is at the heart of scholarly publishing – April 24, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Open access publishing: New evidence on faculty attitudes and behaviors – April 15, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

• Referencing this research: Blankstein, M., & Wolff-Eisenberg, C. (2019, April 12). Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2018. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.311199

Rob Johnson on shifting relationship dynamics and imbalances in an open access world – April 3, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Strategic and non-strategic society publishing – March 18, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Revisiting: Governance and the not-for-profit publisher – March 5, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

The fallacy of open-access publication – November 15, 2017 (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Lumen Learning hosts Boundless OER course archive – September 15, 2017 (Lumen Learning Announcement)

The great unbundling of textbook publishers – October 22, 2016 (eLiterate)

Elsevier has started destroying SSRN – July 18, 2016 (SV-POW)

OER and for-profits: Are we selling out? – March 23, 2015 (eCampus News)

More on Boundless – April 16, 2012 (iterating toward openness)

The big publishers’ strategy on Boundless – April 9, 2012 (iterating toward openness)

Quality

Reframing the conversation about OER – February 20, 2019 (Inside Higher Ed)

Reading: paper vs. screens

Also see Inclusive Access.

When reading to learn, what works best for students — printed books or digital texts? – May 10, 2021 (Los Angeles Times)

Pros and cons of a physical textbook and an ebook – January 26, 2020 (Uloop Colleger)

What’s important to know about screens and reading – May 23, 2019 (Carolina Journal)

Do students lose depth in digital reading? – August 13, 2018 (Salon)

Remixing/Revising OER

Remixing an OER textbook (history) – January 9, 2019 (Dan Allosso)

Research

How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in Open Research? – October 21, 2020 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Return on investment (ROI)

“But is it sustainable?” – December 20, 2017 (Open Oregon)

Exploring return-on-investment of open educational resources (slides) – 2017 (Yunfei Du, College of Information,

Savings

Support for a local approach to statewide OER data collection – July 10, 2019 (OpenOregon)

$1 billion in savings through open educational resources – October 12, 2018 (SPARC)

Scholarship

Scholarly communications shouldn’t just be open, but non-profit too – August 15, 2017 (LSE Impact Blog)

Social justice

Exploring open access for social justice – October 21, 2020 (UCF Libraries News & Blog)

Open in order to… (SPARC)

Sharing legally and freely for better learning – September 2017 (UNESCO)

Textbook costs

Cost of college includes hidden expenses for textbooks, course materials – January 13, 2021 (Teen Vogue)

Fall 2020 Updates: What do college students actually spend on course materials – November 8, 2020 (Phil on EdTech)

Why it’s so hard to lower the cost of textbooks – July 28, 2020 (EdSurge)

Automatic textbook billing – February 2020 (Kaitlyn Vitez, US PIRG Education Fund)

Low cost textbook alternatives: Worth the effort? – April 1, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Bill Gates says the textbook is dying. Is he right? – February 23, 2019 (Forbes)

Learning altered by textbook cost – February 21, 2019 (Northern Star)

How textbook rentals undercut students – June 6, 2018 (Inside Higher Ed)

Is the average cost of a textbook $100? – February 17, 2017 (OpenOregon Educational Resources)

Asking what students spend on textbooks is the wrong question – November 9, 2015 (Hapgood)

Bad data can lead to bad policy: College students don’t spend $1200+ on textbooks – November 8, 2015 (e-Literate)

Not all books are created equal – September 8, 2014 (The FRED Blog)

Traditional knowledge (TK)

Is it possible to decolonize the Commons? An interview with Jane Anderson of Local Contexts – January 30, 2019 (Creative Commons)

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Also see Accessibility

A taxonomy of inclusive design: On disclosure, accessibility, and inclusion – November 15, 2019 (Educause Review)

Access

If we choose to align open access to research with geo-political borders we negate the moral value of open access – November 11, 2019 (LSE Impact Blog)

Access alone isn’t enough: Revisiting calls for discovery, infrastructure, technology, and training – January 31, 2019 (David Crotty, The Scholarly Kitchen)

Accessibility

The problem with accessibility checklists – November 19, 2020 (LSE: Impact of Social Sciences blog)

Citation

“Green” open access papers result in more citations – August 8, 2016 (Wageningen University & Research)

Equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI)

Open educational resources offer promise for more equitable teaching and learning – August 26, 2021 (BERA)

Open with purpose: Taking action to build structural equity and inclusion – October 18, 2020 (University of Malaya Library Blog)

Can we decolonize OER/open? – February 26, 2019 (OER19)

Making international academic spaces international – December 6, 2018 (ProfHacker)

General

Accelerating open health training against COVID-19 – April 9, 2020 (TIB BLOG)

Open ed as the anti-disruption – March 13, 2020 (The Ed Techie)

Open for Scots – January 22, 2020 (Open Scotland)

Ghana: Borderless education in a changing world – January 6, 2020 (allAfrica)

Open and distance learning – Making transformation happen – December 12, 2019 (University World News)

Open access: Could defeat be snatched from the jaws of victory? – November 18, 2019 (Open and Shut?) Full document as PDF

The Open Ed identity crisis – October 16, 2019 (The Ed Techie)

Open is eating the world: What source code and science have in common – November 5, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Open Ed: Reflecting on context, centrality and diversity – November 1, 2019 (Open World)

Openness in whose interest? #OERizona #OpenEd19 – October 29, 2019 (Reflecting Allowed)

Learned societies, the key to realising an open access future? – June 24, 2019 (LSE Impact Blog)

Perspectives on the open access discovery landscape – April 24, 2019 (Jisc scholarly communications)

Surveying social and open learning – March 14, 2019 (Teaching in Higher Ed)

Libraries/librarians

What can academic libraries do to improve OER support? – May 2020 (Open Scotland)

Open educational practices (OEP)

Developing a framework for open educational practices at the University of the Highlands and Islands – January 2020 (Open Scotland)

Open education, open questions – October 23, 2017 (Catherine Cronin, Educause Review)

Open education risks and rewards – May 11, 2017 (Teaching in Higher Ed, podcast)

Open educational resources (OER)

For the common good – Responding to the global pandemic with OER – May 7, 2020 (The University of Edinburgh)

Moving open educational resources from fringes to mainstream; an unintended consequence of Covid-19 pandemic – April 6, 2020 (My Joy Online)

Open Access Directory – A resource for making sense of the open access landscape – March 6, 2020 (LSE Impact Blog)

Devolved management of OER in Irish higher education? – January 19, 2020 (Sharing and learning)

Open accessible education resources and the future of education – May 13, 2019 (Open Economics Blog)

Open peer review

To address the rise of predatory publishing in the social sciences, journals need to experiment with open peer review – January 10, 2020 (LSE Impact Blog)

Open science

Three false starts on the road to open social science – June 27, 2022 (LSE Impact Blog)

Platforms

Fitting the mould: What the European Commission’s second tender for an open research publishing platform tells us about the future of scholarly communication – August 20, 2019 (LSE Impact Blog)

Policy

Relaunching the Open Education Policy Registry – February 19, 2020 (Blog for the OER World Map)

Designing the new OER Policy Registry – November 22, 2018 (OER World Map Blog)

The impact of open access mandates – June 20, 2016 (ITHAKA-S+R)

Publishers/publishing

Publishing philosophy open access without a particle collider – January 29, 2021 (LSE Blog)

Open but unfair – The role of social justice in open access publishing – October 24, 2020 (LSE Blog)

Why is open education resource creation, management and publishing important? Reflections for Open Book Publishers on Open Education Week 2020 – March 6, 2020

Read-and-publish open access deals are heightening global inequalities in access to publication – February 21, 2020 (LSE Impact Blog)

The future of open access business models: APCs are not the only way to go – October 23, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Open book publishers’ statement on Knowledge Unlatched and the Open Research Library – May 21, 2019 (Open Book Publishers Blog)

Why OBP is not participating in KU Open Funding: and why libraries should understand the reasons – October 5, 2018 (Open Book Publishers Blog)

Knowledge Unlatched, failed transparency, and the commercialisation of open access book publishing – October 3, 2018 (LSE Impact Blog)

Reading: paper vs. screens

Smartphone-size screens make it harder to pay attention to and understand news stories – August 23, 2019 (LSE Impact Blog)

Research

Not yet the default setting – in 2020 open research remains a work in progress – January 17, 2020 (LSE Impact Blog)

Tenure

Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community – July 17, 2019 (LSE Impact Blog)

Access

Opportunity or threat? What Plan S can contribute to open access in Latin America – December 4, 2019 (LSE Impact Blog)

Copyright

Copyright reforms to improve access to education – March 18, 2019 (news24)

Equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI)

Open access and Global South: It is more than a matter of inclusion – January 28, 2021(The Scholarly Kitchen)

Being a critical voice – October 24, 2019 (Medium)

Reimagining open science through a feminist lens – December 25, 2018 (Medium)

Making international academic spaces international – December 6, 2018 (ProfHacker)

Power and inequality in open science discourses – November 20, 2017 (Medium)

General

Namibia: No Conception of Open Education in Namibia – November 22, 201 (allAfrica)

Open and distance learning – Making transformation happen – December 12, 2019 (University World News)

Open educational resources (OER)

Open educational resources: disruptive times encourage disruptive solutions – May 18, 2020 (UTS)

Publishers/publishing

Publishing as an act, not an industry – November 18, 2018 (Zoe Wake Hyde)

The political economics of open access publishing: A series – September 27, 2015 (Cameron Neylon)

Research

Leveling the playing field: How to address global imbalances in scholarly communication – March 6, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

The evolving landscape of research access and its impact on the Global South – February 7, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

Advocacy

Mishra, S. (2017). Promoting Use and Contribution of Open Educational Resources. New Dehli: CEMCA. http://oasis.col.org/handle/11599/2659

Creative Commons licences

Stacey, P. & Pearson, S. H. (2017). Made with Creative Commons. Copenhagen, Denmark: Ctrl-Alt-Delete Books. https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/made-with-cc/

General

Weller, M. (2020). 25 years of ed tech. Edmonton, AB: AU Press, Athabasca University. https://www.aupress.ca/books/120290-25-years-of-ed-tech/

Glennie, J. et al. (2012). Perspectives on open and distance learning: OERs and change in higher education: Reflections from practices. Vancouver BC/Paris: Commonwealth of Learning/UNESCO. http://oasis.col.org/handle/11599/80

Jhangiani, R., & Biswas-Diener, R. (Eds.) (2017). Open: The philosophy and practices that are revoluntionizing education and science. London: Ubiquity Press. https://doi.org/10.5334/bbc

Meger, E., Freeman, W., Schwartz, M., Ludbrook, A., & Glynn M. (2020). Ryerson open moments. Toronto: Ryerson University. https://pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca/openmoments/

Journals

Gillis, R. (Ed.) (2019). Getting found, staying found, increasing impact: Enhancing readership and preserving content for OJS journals, second edition. Vancouver, BC: Public Knowledge Project. https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/getting-found-staying-found/en/

Open educational resources (OER)

Schilling, K. (2023). Beyond the Horizon: Broadening Our Understanding of OER Efficacy. Montreal, PQ: Rebus Foundation. https://press.rebus.community/beyond-the-horizon/

Episode 45: David Porter on the Benefits of Open Educational Resources as Millions Shift to Online Learning – March 30, 2020

Open science

Chan, L., Okune, A., Hillyer, R., Albornoz, D., & Posada, A. (2019). Contextualizing openness: Situation open science. Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press. https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/contextualizing-openness-situating-open-science

Open textbooks

Jhangiani, R.S., Green, A.G., & Belshaw, J.D. (2016). Three approaches to open textbook development. In P. Blessinger & T.J. Bliss, Open education: International perspectives in higher education (179-198). Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0103.09

Policy

Miao, F., Mishra, S., & McGreal, R. (2016). Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs and Transformation. Burnaby, BC: Commonwealth of Learning. http://hdl.handle.net/11599/2306

Accessibility

Top 10 disability and accessibility TED talks and videos – November 19, 2019 (Medium)

Copyright

Kline, D. (2019). The intangible advantage: Understanding intellectual property in the new economy. Los Angeles, CA: Michelson 20MM. https://michelsonip.com/

Creative Commons licences

Creative Commons. (2019). Creative Commons Certificate for Educators and Librarians. Mountain View, CA: Creative Commons. https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/

Pearson, S.H., Stacey, P. (2017). Made with Creative Commons. Copenhagen, Denmark: Ctrl-Alt-Delete Books. https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/made-with-cc/

Piña, A. A. (2015). Open content licensing. In J.M. Spector (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational technology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Debt

General

Montgomery, L., Hartley, J., Neylon, C., Gillies, M., Gray, E., Herrmann-Pillath, C. … Wilson, K. (2021). Open knowledge institutions: Reinventing universities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13614.001.0001

Oblinger, D.G. (Ed.) (2012). Game changers: Education and information technologies. Louisville, CO: Educause. https://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/books/game-changers-education-and-information-technologies

Libraries/librarians

Wesolek, A., Lashley, J., Langley, A. (2018). OER: A field guide for academic librarians. Forest Grove, OR: Pacific University Press. https://commons.pacificu.edu/pup/3

Open educational practices (OEP)/pedagogy

Clifton, A., & Hoffman, K.D. (2020). Open pedagogy approaches: Faculty, library, and student collaborations. Geneseo, NY: Milne Library Publishing. https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/openpedagogyapproaches/

Open educational resources (OER)

Comas-Quinn, A., Beaven, A., & Sawhill, B. (Eds). (2019). New case studies of openness in and beyond the language classroom. Voillans, France: Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.37.9782490057511

Wiley, D. (2017). The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education. In R.A. Reiser & J.V. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and issues in instructional design and technology (4th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson Education. https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4859

Wiley, D. (2016). Foreword: Openness as a Value. In P. Blessinger & T.J. Bliss (Eds.), Open education: International perspectives in higher education (xxi). Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/htmlreader/978-1-78374-278-3/foreword.xhtml

Publishers/publishing

OER’s road ahead is paved with publisher platforms – February 9, 2017 (Library Journal)

How the textbook industry tries to hook your prof – May 27, 2016 (WIRED)

A weird but true fact about textbook publishers and OER – November 19, 2014 (eLiterate)

Scholarship

Cohen, D.J., & Scheinfeldt, T. (Eds). (2013). Hacking the academy: New approaches to scholarship and teaching from digital humanities. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dh.12172434.0001.001

General

Blessinger, P. & Bliss, T.J. (Eds.) (2016).  Open education: International perspectives in higher education (xxi). Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/531

Conrad, D. & Prinsloo, P. (Eds.). (2020). Open(ing) education. Leiden, Netherlands; Boston, USA: Brill / Sense.

Czerniewic, L. & Cronin, C. (Eds.). (2023). Higher education for good: Teaching and learning futures. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0363

Deimann, M., & Peters, M.A. (Eds.). (2016). The philosophy of open learning – Peer learning and the intellectual commons. Bern, Switzerland:Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/22775 (All rights reserved)

Glennie, J. et al. (2012). Perspectives on open and distance learning: OERs and change in higher education: Reflections from practices. Vancouver BC/Paris: Commonwealth of Learning/UNESCO. http://oasis.col.org/handle/11599/80

Inamorato dos Santos, A. (2019). Practical guidelines on open education for academics: Modernising higher education via open educational practices. Brussels, Belgium: Publications Office of the European Union. https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/b297bee1-81ba-11e9-9f05-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

Jemni, M., Kinshuk & Khribi, M. K. (2017). Open education: From OERs to MOOCs. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783662529232 (All rights reserved. Free ebook available.)

Latchen, C. (2018).  Open and distance non-formal education in developing countries. Singapore: Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811067402 (All rights reserved)

Qayyum, A. & Zawaki-Richter, O. (2018).  Open and distance education in Australia, Europe and the Americas: National Perspectives in a Digital Age. New York: Sage. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811302978

Open Education Working Group. . (2014). The open education handbook. http://education.okfn.org/handbooks/handbook/

Weller, M. (2011). The digital scholar. How technology is transforming scholarly practice. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/the-digital-scholar-how-technology-is-transforming-scholarly-practice/

Weller, M. (2014). The battle for open: How openness won and why it doesn’t feel like victory. London, UK: Ubiquity Press. https://doi.org/10.5334/bam

Weller, M. (2020). 25 Years of ed tech. Edmonton, Canada: AU Press. https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771993050.01

Policy

Corrall, S., & Pinfield, S. (2014). Coherence of “open” initiatives in higher education and research: Framing a policy agenda. In: Breaking Down Walls: Culture-Context-Computing, 04 March 2014 – 07 March 2014, Berlin, Germany.

Research

Burgos, D. (2020). Radical solutions and open science: An open approach to boost higher education. Singapore: Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-4276-3#toc

Farrow, R., Iniesto, F., Weller, M. & Pitt., R. (2020). The GO-GN research methods handbook. Open Education Research Hub. The Open University, UK. CC-BY 4.0. http://go-gn.net/gogn_outputs/research-methods-handbook/

Scholarship

Neylon, C. (2019). Open scholarship and the need for collective action. Bristol, UK: Knowledge Exchange. http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7542/2/Open_Scholarship_and_the_need_for_collective_action_Oct_2019.pdf

General

Czerniewic, L. & Cronin, C. (Eds.). (2023). Higher education for good: Teaching and learning futures. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0363

Latchen, C. (2018).  Open and distance non-formal education in developing countries. Singapore: Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811067402 (All rights reserved)

Olivier, J, Du Toit-Brits, C, Bunt, BJ & Dhakulkar, A. (2022). Contextualised open educational practices: Towards student agency and self-directed learning, in NWU Self-Directed Learning Series, vol. 10, AOSIS Books, Cape Town.

Qayyum, A. & Zawaki-Richter, O. (2018).  Open and distance education in Australia, Europe and the Americas: National Perspectives in a Digital Age. New York: Sage. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811302978

MOOCs

Scholarship

Neylon, C. (2019). Open scholarship and the need for collective action. Bristol, UK: Knowledge Exchange. http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7542/2/Open_Scholarship_and_the_need_for_collective_action_Oct_2019.pdf

South Africa

Hodgkinson-Williams, C. & Arinto, P.B. (2017). Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South. Cape Town & Ottawa: African Minds, International Development Research Centre & Research on Open Educational Resources for Development. http://www.africanminds.co.za/dd-product/adoption-and-impact-of-oer-in-the-global-south/.

Access codes/assessment platforms

Senate endorses guiding principles for online assessment materials – August 8, 2019 (The Ubyssey)

Access code costs continue to burden students – October 11, 2018 (BCcampus newsletter)

Beyond textbook pricing, conversation about affordability expands to online assessment materials – June 15, 2018 (Ubyssey)

Accessibility

Publishers, universities struggle to provide timely access to accessible books – August 27, 2019 (University Affairs)

Inclusive design webinar series – March 12, 2019 (BCcampus News)

Our accessibility policy and forthcoming accessibility improvements – May 1, 2018 (Pressbooks)

Adoption

Ontario schools tally OER savings with new tool – July 9, 2019 (Campus Technology)

Adult Basic Education (ABE)

Open Education Stories: Adult Basic Education Zed Cred Ahead – January 24, 2019 (BCcampus)

Educators call on BC government to reverse cuts to adult ed– Sept 14, 2015 (Vancouver Sun)

Advocacy

This KPU professor brought open-education advocacy all the way to the UN – April 3, 2019 (University Affairs)

Canada OER group

Canada OER Group – 2019 update – February 19, 2019 (BCcampus)

Canada OER Group – June 30, 2016 (BCcampus newsletter)

Copyright

Supreme Court sides with York University in copyright tariff dispute – Sept 7, 2021 (University Affairs)

Federal Court of Appeal decision is mixed news for educators and students – April 24, 2020 (CAUT)

Copyright ruling harmful to creators and publishers, agency says – April 24, 2020 (Prince George Citizen)

cCalls for support related to the CARL Open Copyright Project – June 11, 2019 (CARL/ABRC News)

How foreign companies use Canada’s universities to steal away huge chunks of intellectual property – March 6, 2019 (Ottawa Citizen)

Authors Alliance submits briefs supporting reversionary rights in Canada – December 10, 2018 (Authors Alliance)

Canadian Government Commits $50 Million to Creative Commons Licensed Open News Content – November 26, 2018 (Michael Geist)

New NAFTA would harm Canadian copyright reform and shrink the public domain – October 1, 2018 (Creative Commons)

Canadian Alliance of Student Associations worries making changes to fair dealing could cost students – June 7, 2018 (The Runner)

Her student debt payments are eating up most of her $24,000 salary – October 30, 2017 (Globe and Mail)

The Cost of a Canadian University Education in Six Charts – October 19, 2017 (MacLeans)

What the TPP means for copyright law in Canada – December 18, 2016 (CBA/ABC National)

Kate Taylor: Kids will suffer if Canada’s copyright legislation doesn’t change – April 22, 2016 (Globe and Mail)

Debt

Also see Tuition fees on this page.

‘Most difficult year’ for UVic students hunting for housing as landlords stay on sidelines – August 29, 2021 (Times Colonist)

Students sound alarm on skyrocketing cost of living – August 28, 2021 (Halifax Today)

Borrowing and debt patterns of graduates tied to educational pathways – December 3, 2020 (Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission)

How Canadians go from student debt to default – August 17, 2019 (Global News)

Liberals write off $163 million in student loans feds will never collect – January 28, 2019 (The Star)

Provincial finance committee recommends zero-interest student loans, increased funding for student initiatives – December 6, 2018 (The Ubyssey)

Alberta post-secondary students accumulating debt at ‘alarming rate’, says expert – September 24, 2018 (Edmonton Journal)

Her student debt payments are eating up most of her $24,000 salary – October 30, 2017 (Globe and Mail)

B.C. students work more, owe more than other Canadian students – September 20, 2017 (Vancouver Sun)Word doc

Cash-strapped Alberta students leading a push for open textbooks – October 27, 2016 (Edmonton Metro)

The mental health impact of rising debt: Alot of students suffer silently – May 30, 2016 (Globe and Mail)

Canadians shouldn’t be complacent about our student debt – November 1, 2015 (Globe and Mail)

Average student debt difficult to pay off, delays life milestones – March 11, 2014 (CBC News)

Funding

New supports for post-secondary students this fall – July 15, 2020 (BC Gov News)

(B.C.) Provincial government pledges $3.26 million towards open educational resources – April 24, 2019 (The Ubyssey)

More open textbooks arriving on student bookshelves – April 17, 2019 (BCcampus)

Student advocates investing big in open textbooks – September 20, 2018 (BCcampus)

Funding boosts the B.C. Open Textbook Project – March 30, 2017 (BC Gov News)

Textbook lesson in savings for UBC students – February 10, 2017 (BC Gov News)

Grant to accelerate uptake of open textbooks – December 1, 2015 (BC Gov News)

B.C. to lead Canada in offering students free, open textbooks – October 16, 2012 (BC Gov News)

General

U of A leads project to open access to digital learning across Alberta – August 10, 2020 (folio)

New supports for post-secondary students this fall – July 15, 2020 (BC Govt News)

TRU becomes 1st North American school to offer international credential transfers for open learning students – June 9, 2020 (Kamloops Now)

Camosun to establish open education initiative with grant money – October 23, 2019 (Nexus)

Why universities are hiring “Wikipedeans-in-Residence” – October 3, 2019 (Macleans)

Open database of educational facilities – August 19, 2019 (StatCan Press Release)

$2.5 million in building code refunds, free codes on the way – August 14, 2019 (BC Gov News)

Wikipedian-in-residence takes up post at Montreal’s Concordia University – July 7, 2019 (CBC News)

University of British Columbia: Recognizing open in promotion and tenure – July 8, 2018 (Educause Review)

Libraries/librarians

Library publishers convene in Vancouver to discuss open platforms and open educational resources – July 15, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

CARL Brings together OER librarian leaders to identify priorities for action – September 10, 2018 (Canadian Association of Research Libraries: CARL/ABRC)

Licences and subscriptions

Commercial textbooks present challenges in a virtual environment – June 2020 (U of Guelph Library News)

U of S cutting subscriptions to almost 4,000 academic journals – August 8, 2019 (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)

The rising price of knowledge: University of Calgary cuts 1,600 academic resources – January 16, 2017 (Gauntlet)

U of C axes hundreds of journal subscriptions as ‘big 5’ publishers jack up prices – January 19, 2017 (CBC News)

Cancellation of subscriptions to 2,116 Springer journals – May 6, 2016 (Universite de Montreal)

Open educational practices (OEP)/pedagogy

German instructor works with students to produce open-educational resources that make learning tough languages easier. Klingt aufregend! – October 5, 2021 (University of Calgary News)

New report from CARL’s OEWG: Environmental scan of open education service and support in Canada – June 29, 2020 (CARL News)

Editors Canada releases new guidelines for the ethical editing of students’ work – March 5, 2019 (University Affairs/Affaires universitaires)

New study: Exploring faculty use of OER at BC institutions – January 18, 2016 (BCcampus OpenEd)

Open Education offers students and educators new learning experiences – March 6, 2015 (BC Gov News)

Open educational resources (OER)

UMSU releases 2021-22 budget recommendations: Open education resources tops list of priorities – March 9, 2021 (Manitoban)

AtlanticOER-RELAtlantique Launches, Bringing Open Educational Resources (OER) to the East Coast – February 9, 2021 (CAUL-CBUA News)

SSMU advocates for affordable textbooks and Open Education Resources – October 20, 2020 (The McGill Tribune)

CAUL-CBUA To Launch Regional Open Educational Resource (OER) Repository – July 15, 2020 (CAUL-CBUA News)

Grants to create open educational resources now available – May 7, 2020 (Daily News, McMaster University)

In the COVID-19 world, open source textbooks are the way of the future – April 22, 2020 (The National Post)

Introducing UPEI’s open education resource development program – April 8, 2020 (The Journal Pioneer)

‘A way to keep our language alive’: How the Atikamekw Nation uses Wikipedia to promote its language – December 10, 2019 (CBC News)

UMSU showcases open educational resources – November 5, 2019 (The Manitoban)

CanLiII seeks volunteer editor and writers for a BC litigation practice manual – September 4, 2019 (The CanLII Blog)

Developing a course using open educational resources at Durham College, Oshawa, Ontario – March 1, 2019 (Teach Online)

Free textbook for students: U of T Mississauga gets its first open access digital resource – January 23, 2019 (University of Toronto)

Wikipedia to get respect at Concordia University – January 16, 2019 (Montreal Gazette)

The future is open – November 29, 2018 (Dal News)

Halifax researchers create blog to bring science to a wider audience –  August 9, 2018 (The Star Halifax); blog is called Think of the PLOSibilities

Developing open educational resources in French and English for students of organic chemistry at the University of Ottawa, Canada – May 25, 2018 (Contact North)

VP University Affairs advocates for open educational resources at McGill – February 6, 2018 (The McGill Tribune)

New pilot project encourages faculty members to go beyond the textbook – July 5, 2017 (University of Calgary)

Open textbooks

Cape Breton woman first student to publish book on CBU’s open textbook platform – March 7, 2021 (Cape Breton Post)

Improving access: These psychology instructors created a free textbook that has saved students thousands of dollars – October 15, 2020 (Dal News)

UPEI launches pilot program for free textbooks – February 11, 2020 (CBC)

Open source program to save U of R students $1.5M – January 7, 2020 (CKOM News)

Saskatchewan Government investment saves students money – January 7, 2020 (Saskatchewan Government News and Media)

Camosun to help advance the use of open textbooks – September 25, 2019 (BC Colleges)

The future is open – March 28, 2019 (The Silhouette, McMaster University’s Student Newspaper)

Open-access chemistry textbooks gain popularity – March 18, 2019 (Chemical & Engineering News)

Open education resources reduce cost to post-secondary – February 4, 2019 (Selkirk Sentinel)

Free textbook for students: U of T Mississauga gets its first open access digital resource – January 23, 2019 (U of T News)

The future is open – November 29, 2018 (Dal News)

Okanagan College professors’ approach to textbooks easing student costs – November 21, 2018 (Kelowna Now)

How to become an “eTextbook rock star” – November 21, 2018 (Daily News, McMaster U)

UPEI librarian pitches plan for more free textbooks – October 5, 2018 (CBC News)

Digital textbooks are making education more affordable and accessible for British Columbians – June 6, 2018 (Kelowna Now)

Open textbooks make education more accessible and affordable – June 5, 2018 (BC Gov News)

To combat soaring textbook costs, look to an open-source approach – January 2, 2018 (Globe and Mail)

The open educational resources movement is redefining the concept of online textbooks – April 4, 2017 (University Affairs)

Nearly all UBC math textbooks are available online for free – January 19, 2017 (The Ubyssey)

Cash-strapped Alberta students leading a push for open textbooks – October 27, 2016 (Edmonton Metro)

British Columbia university profiles to help you choose – October 18, 2017 (The Globe and Mail)

• see KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, “In support of students facing financial barriers, KPU participates in the BC campus Open Textbook Project, which provides free digital textbooks, as well as low-cost print textbooks. More than 180 titles are currently offered through this initiative, and KPU’s adoption rate of open-access textbooks has nearly doubled over the past year.”

B.C. works to deliver more free post-secondary textbooks – December 21, 2016 (Kelowna Now)

Cash-strapped Alberta students leading a push for open textbooks – October 27, 2016 (Edmonton Metro)

Open Textbook Project eases costs for students – October 1, 2016 (Times Colonist)

Camosun trades students use free open textbooks in class – Sept 28, 2016 (Camosun College News)

Camosun students save over $115,000 with free open textbooks – Sept 27/16 (BC Gov News)

Open textbook use on the rise at U of S – Sept 21, 2016 (University of Saskatchewan web page)

UPEI students save money using online textbooks – Sept 9, 2016 (CBC News)

Additional open textbooks available for students – November 10, 2015 (BC Gov News)

Open textbooks fill digital shelves – May 29, 2015 (BC Gov News)

Open textbooks: a great idea catches on – March 6, 2015 (BC Gov News)

B.C. leading the discussion on open textbooks – April 15, 2014 (BC Gov News)

Free, online textbooks coming for skills training  – Oct 25, 2013 (BC Gov News)

More open textbooks for students underway – Oct 7, 2013 (BC Gov News)

Free, open textbooks available for students and instructors – Sept 9, 213 (BC Gov News)

Moving to the next chapter on free online textbooks – April 8, 2013 (BC Gov News)

Moving forward on free, open textbooks – February 18, 2013 (BC Gov News)

Policy

Developing open policy for higher education – April 15, 2016 (Creative Commons)

Publishers/publishing

How Ottawa’s Centre for Journalology is tackling the scourge of predatory publishers – March 20, 2020 (University Affairs)

How a university took on the textbook industry – October 24, 2019 (EdSurge) Rich Baraniuk is from Winnipeg.

Savings

Post-Secondary Students Save Millions Through Investments In Open Education Resources – December 8, 2021 (SK Gov News)

Saskatchewan Government investment saves students money – January 7, 2020 (SK Gov News)

Open textbook combines high quality with cost savings for students – October 29, 2017 (University of Regina)

Textbook savings continue to grow for post-secondary students – December 21, 2016 (BC Gov News)

Camosun trades students use free open textbooks in class – Sept 28, 2016 (Camosun media release)

Open textbooks provide big savings and benefits for Camosun students – Sept 27, 2016 (Saanich News)

Camosun students save over $115,000 with free open textbooks – Sept 27, 2016 (BC Gov News)

B.C. celebrates student savings through the B.C. Open Textbook Project – Sept 4, 2016 (BC Gov News)

Fighting Big Textbook: How students are trying to save money as prices keep going up – Sept 4, 2015 (Financial Post): this article includes a graph comparing the Cdn consumer price index against the rising cost of textbooks and school supplies

Students saving money with open textbooks – January 10, 2014 (BC Gov News)

Scholarship

Exploring tension and risk in open scholarship – November 20, 2017 (Open UBC)

Student societies/activities

UPEI student union plans to hold PCs, Greens to election promises – April 30, 2019 (CBC)

Candidate profile: Julia Chai, Senate – March 9, 2019 (The Ubyssey)

Students want more invested in open textbooks – September 12, 2018 (The Omega, TRU)

University students want profs to consider free options over textbooks – September 12, 2018 (CBC News, Kitchener-Waterloo)

B.C. Federation of Students presses province on open-source textbooks – September 4, 2018 (The Star Vancouver)

Students fight back against sky-high textbook costs – September 4, 2018 (OkanaganLife)

Hat trick for UVic students recognized for leadership – June 12, 2018 (University of Victoria/UVic News)

UVic students make push for open textbooks – January 9, 2017 (Saanich News)

Open educational resources may help students with textbook costs – October 15, 2016 (The Ubyssey)

UVSS presents to BC Governments Select Standing Committee on Finance – October 12, 2016 (University of Victoria Student Society)

BC students say they are textbookbroke – Sept 7, 2016 (CBC)

Student support

Students with kids press universities for more support – January 10, 2018 (University Affairs)

Tenure

University of British Columbia: Recognizing open in promotion and tenure – July 18, 2018 (by Brady Yano, Daniel Munro, and Amanda Coolidge in EDUCAUSE Review)

Textbook costs

Project aims to alleviate textbook costs for university students in Atlantic Canada – July 28, 2020 (CBC)

Commercial textbooks present challenges in a virtual environment – June 2020 (U of Guelph Library News)

UNB students pay as much as $340 per textbook – Sept 27, 2016 (CBC)

Open textbooks provide big savings and benefits for Camosun students – Sept 27, 2016 (Saanich News)

BC students say they are textbookbroke – Sept 7, 2016 (CBC)

How are you paying for post-secondary education? – June 28, 2016 (Globe and Mail)

Educators call on BC government to reverse cuts to adult ed – Sept 14, 2015 (Vancouver Sun)

Back to school 2015: How post-secondary students can fight ‘grim reality’ of rising textbook costs – Sept 4, 2015 (CBC News)

Fighting big textbook: How students are trying to save money as prices keep going up – Sept 4, 2015 (Financial Post)

Tuition

Also see Debt on this page.

Tuition fees for degree programs, 2019/2020 – September 4, 2019 (StatsCan The Daily)

Financial information of community colleges and vocational schools, 2016/2017 – December 12, 2018 (Statistics Canada)

Liberals write off $200 million in student loans feds will never collect – February 16, 2018 (taken from The Canadian Press, published in NationTalk)

The Cost of a Canadian University Education in Six Charts – October 19, 2017 (MacLeans)

University tuition fees in Canada rise 40 per cent in a decade – September 7, 2016 (Global News)

The cheapest and most expensive degree programs in Canada: StatsCan – September 6, 2017 (Global News)

Educators call on BC government to reverse cuts to adult ed – Sept 14, 2015 (Vancouver Sun)

Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) programs

Douglas to develop ZTC for General Business Certificate – January 11, 2021 (Academica Group)

No textbooks? No problem – May 3, 2019 (Royal Roads University News)

Courses

Open Online Course on Programming for Geospatial Hydrological Applications launched – March 7, 2021 (India Education Diary)

Events

Opening UCL: A symposium on open education – March 13, 2019

General

Mada launches two platforms to support access to information – April 6, 2020 (The Peninsula Qatar)

Launch of the UNESCO dynamic coalition for open education resources (OER) – April 1, 2020 (UNESCO)

6 Nigerian states to pilot open schooling system – February 17, 2020 (PM News Nigeria)

Training programme on open education held – December 18, 2019 (The Pioneer)

Sarvodaya-Fusion partners with Open University of Sri Lanka and NIBM to offer advanced ICT education to rural children – December 16, 2019 (MenaFN)

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party outlines commitment to open digital standards – November 27, 2019 (Reclaim the Net)

The OA Interviews: K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India – October 31, 2019 (Open and Shut?)

Be very impressed by the open LMS of Open University of China – October 7, 2019 (LMS Pulse)

Open Scotland shared curation invitation – October 2019 (Open Scotland)

Second meeting of UNESCO ICT competency framework/OER network – August 27, 2019 (UNESCO News)

Global Open Initiative co-founders, Sadat & Sadik, to attend the 2019 Civil Servant research summit in Stockholm – August 15, 2019 (News Ghana)

Accessing learning and research materials – August 6, 2019 (Newsday)

IBM to train over 1 million female students in India in 3 years – March 11, 2019 (The Times of India)

Focus on India–WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses – August 18, 2016 (The Signpost)

Monographs

Humanities scholars warn over UKRI’s plan for open-access books – February 17, 2020 (Times Higher Education)

OA monographs: policy and practice for supporting researchers -October 8,2019 (Jisc scholarly communications)

Open educational resources (OER)

Nigeria identifies priority areas for open educational resources – March 15, 2021 (India Education Diary)

Chitral varsity’s website to facilitate students in online education – April 23, 2020 (Dawn)

TISS launches online portal for school education – December 10, 2019 (The Hindu)

EUR 98 mln financing contracts signed for two projects aimed at digitizing Romania’s education system – September 11, 2019 (Romania Insider)

Let’s sprint again 🙂 – August 19, 2019 (OER World Map)

Innovative teaching seen to improve access, quality of education – July 4, 2019 (Philstar Global)

OSOU, OCL talk on ‘open edu resources’ – June 23, 2019 (the pioneer)

EFLU to roll out new proficiency course in 13 languages – April 15, 2019 (The Hans India)

NOUN trains varsities staff on open educational resources – March 12, 2019 (Leadership)

Diversifying the medical curriculum using open educational resources – May 16, 2016 (Teaching Matters blog)

Publishers/publishing

McGraw-Hill Education/Cengage Learning Holdings merger inquiry – November 19, 2019/update January 14, 2020

Pearson faces “deep-rooted challenges” as CEO joins FTSE exodus – December 18, 2019 (Proactive)

Scholarship

Knowledge Exchange has compiled a collection of interviews which illustrate how pioneering initiatives set up and operate new, or alternative business models, in the area of open scholarship – June 1, 2019 (Knowledge Exchange)

Textbook costs

‘Price gouging from Covid’: student ebooks costing up to 500% more than in print – January 29, 2021 (The Guardian)

General

South Africa: Unesco Chair in Open Education Resources for Glenda Cox – December 2, 2021 (allAfrica)

Launch of the UNESCO dynamic coalition for open education resources (OER) – April 1, 2020 (UNESCO)

Symposium to consider how open education fits in reforms – December 5, 2019 (Otago Daily Times)

IFAP supports national information policies and knowledge strategies in Africa – March 18, 2019 (UNESCO)

UNESCO Chair for ‘open education’ professor – March 8, 2019 (University of Cape Town News)

Open educational practice (OEP)

“Game-changer for higher education in NZ” launched in Otago – July 4, 2019 (Voxy.co.nz)

Open educational resources (OER)

Where EAC open education resources? – August 24, 2019 (The New Times)

VE reforms provide opportunity for open educational resources – April 4, 2019 (Voxy.co.nz)

Academic calls for embracing of open educational resources – March 13, 2019 (Fiji Sun)

Publishers/publishing

Competition regulator challenges publishing giants’ union – December 12, 2019 (Times Higher Education)

Textbook costs

Pirated textbooks flood market…parents turn to the street for cheaper editions – January 16, 2020 (The Herald)

Photocopies proliferate as textbook prices soar – January 15, 2020 (The Herald)

Access codes/assessment platforms

UBC Senate endorses principles for digital learning materials used for assessment – May 24, 2019 (Open UBC, Christina Hendricks)

Adoption

Barker J., Jeffery, K., Jhangiani, R.S., Veletsianos, G. (2018). Eight patterns of open textbook adoption in British Columbia The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(3). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3723/4641

Carey, T., Davis, A., Ferreras, S., Porter, D. (2015). Using open educational practices to support institutional strategic excellence in teach, learning & scholarship. Open Praxis, 7(2).  http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.7.2.201

Hendricks, C., Reinsberg, S.A., Rieger, G.W. (2017). The adoption of an open textbook in a large Physics course: An analysis of cost, outcomes, use and perceptions. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3006

Jhangiani, R. S., & Jhangiani, S. (2017). Investigating the perceptions, use, and impact of open textbooks: A survey of post-secondary students in British Columbia. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3012

McGreal, R., Anderson, T., & Conrad, D. (2015). Open educational resources in Canada. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 16(5). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2404/3421

McKerlich, R. C., Ives, C., & McGreal, R. (2013). Measuring use and creation of open educational resources in higher education. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v14i4.1573

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

Advocacy

Annand, D., Jensen, T. (2017). Incentivizing the production and use of open educational resources in higher education institutions.  The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3009

Harrison, M., & DeVries, I. (2019). Open educational practices advocacy: The instructional designer experience. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 45(3). https://doi.org/10.21432/cjlt27881

Jhangiani, R.S. (2017). Pragmatism vs. idealism and the identity crisis of OER advocacy. Open Praxis, 9(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.9.2.569

Courses

Christiansen, E., & McNally, M. (2022). Examining the technological and pedagogical elements of select open courseware. First Monday, 27(10). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v27i10.11639

Hill, P. (2019). State of higher ed LMS market for US and Canada: 2019 mid-year edition. Phil on Ed Tech. https://philonedtech.com/state-of-higher-ed-lms-market-for-us-and-canada-2019-mid-year-edition/

Debt

Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission. (2018, September). Borrowing to Finance University Education: Class of 2014. Trends in Maritime Higher Education, 15(2).

• Press release (September 19, 2018): Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission – Maritime student debt situation sees improvements

The Case for Renewal in Post-Secondary Education – March 16, 2017 (paper from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)

Statistics Canada. (2020, August 25). Half of recent postsecondary graduates had student debt prior to the pandemic. The Daily. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/200825/dq200825b-eng.htm?utm_source=Academica+Top+Ten&utm_campaign=c7e847934a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_08_25_05_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b4928536cf-c7e847934a-51529649

Student debt crisis – A generation buried in student debt. (2018). Annual Bankruptcy Study. Hoyes Michalos. https://www.hoyes.com/press/joe-debtor/the-student-debtor/

Efficacy and student outcomes

Hendricks, C., Reinsberg, S.A., Rieger, G.W. (2017). The adoption of an open textbook in a large physics course: An analysis of cost, outcomes, use and perceptions. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3006

Equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI)

Sator, A., & Williams. H. (2020). Removing barriers to online learning through a teaching and learning lens. Sponsored by BCcampus. https://bccampus.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Report_Removing-Barriers-to-Online-Learning.pdf

Accessible Admissions: Fostering Equitable, Accessible, and Inclusive Admissions through Disability Justice – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT) – November 28, 2023

Funding

Lariviere, V., Sugimoto, C.R. (2018). Do authors comply when funders enforce open access to research? Nature, 562, 483-486. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07101-w

• This research includes Canadian information so is included in this section.

General

Canadian Digital Learning Research Association

• Johnson, N., Donovan, T., Seaman, J., & Bates, T. (2019). Canadian National Survey of Online and Digital Learning, Global Online Learning Summit, Toronto, October 8-10, 2019. Canadian Digital Learning Research Association. https://onlinelearningsurveycanada.ca/download/768/
• 2018 publications on online learning and open education

Daniel, J.S. (2019). Open universities: Old concepts and contemporary challenges. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 20(4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/4035/5166

DeVries, I.J. (2019). Open universities and open educational practices. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 20(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i4.4215

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

Homework systems

d’Entremont, A. (2018). Student preference between single-box and multi-box homework problem answers using WeBWorK, an online homework system. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Conference. June 3-6, 2018, Vancouver, BC. https://doi.org/10.24908/pceea.v0i0.13101

Lee, J.S., Verrett J. (2018). WeBWorK as an open online homework system in a second-year material and energy balances course. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Conference. June 3-6, 2018, Vancouver, BC. https://doi.org/10.24908/pceea.v0i0.13047

Inclusive access

Also see Access codes/assessment platforms on this page.

Instructional designers

Harrison, M., & DeVries, I. (2019). Open educational practices advocacy: The instructional designer experience. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 45(3). https://doi.org/10.21432/cjlt27881

Journals

Also see Platforms on this page.

Gillis R. (ed) (2019). Getting found, staying found, increasing impact: Enhancing readership and preserving content for OJS journals, Second Edition. PKP/SFU: Vancouver, B.C. https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/getting-found-staying-found/en/

Legislation

Dewhurst, D., Keyes, J.M., Zariski, A. (2013). Open educational resources for professionals: A new era in the training and development of legislative counsel. International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education (IJEDE), 27(2). http://ijede.ca/index.php/jde/article/view/837/1503

Libraries

Smith, B., & Lee, L. (2017). Librarians and OER: Cultivating a community of practice to be more effective advocates. Journal Of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 11(1), 106-122. doi:10.1080/1533290X.2016.1226592

CARL/ABRC. (2014, Sept 8). Open textbooks: opportunities for research libraries: Working paper presented to the CARL Committee on Research Dissemination. (PDF.) Canadian Association or Research Libraries/Association des bibliotheques de recherche du Canad.

Open educational practices (OEP)

Annand, D., Jensen, T. (2017). Incentivizing the production and use of open educational resources in higher education institutions.  The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3009

CARL Open Education Working Group’s Environmental Scan Subgroup. (2020). Environmental scan of open education service and support in Canada. CARL/ABRC. https://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/oe-environmental-scan-released/?cn-reloaded=1&cn-reloaded=1

Fields, E., & Harper, A. (2020). Opening up information literacy: Empowering students through open pedagogy. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Innovative Pedagogy, 2. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/sotl_ip/vol2/iss1/1/#.X1vAGswPk9k

Han, A., Briseño-Garzón, A., Birol, G. (2018). 2018 UBC Teaching Practices Survey. Focus: Open. University of British Columbia. https://open-2017.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2018/12/UBCV_Open.pdf

Jhangiani, R.S., Hardin, E.E.,& Beers, M.J. (guest eds). (2019). Open educational practices: Perceptions and outcomes. Psychology Learning & Teaching (special issue). https://doi.org/10.1177/1475725718814354

Jhangiani, R. S., Pitt, R., Hendricks, C., Key, J., & Lalonde, C. (2016). Exploring the use of open educational resources at BC post-secondary institutions. Victoria, BC: BCcampus.

Maultsaid, D., & Harrison, M. (2023). Can Open Pedagogy Encourage Care? Student Perspectives . The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 24(3), 77–98. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v24i3.6901

Morgan, T. (2019). Getting to open at a closed institution; A case study of evoling and sustaining open education practices. Journal of Learning for Development, 6(3). https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/346

Morgan, T. (2019). Instructional designers and open education practices: Negotiating the gap between intentional and operational agency. Open Praxis, 11(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.4.1011

Morgan, T., Childs, E., Hendricks, C., Harrison, M., DeVries, I., & Jhangiani, R. (2021). How are we doing with open education practice initiatives? Applying an Institutional Self-Assessment Tool in five higher education institutions. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 22(4), 125-140. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v22i4.5745

Paskevicius, M. & Irvine, V. (2019). Practicalities of implementing open pedagogy in higher education. Smart Learn. Environ. 6, 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40561-019-0110-5

Paskevicius, M. & Irvine, V. (2019). Open education and learning design: Open pedagogy in Praxis. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, (1), p.10. http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.512

Paskevicius, M. (2017). Conceptualizing open educational practices through the lens of constructive alignment, Open Praxis, 9(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.9.2.519

Seid-Karbasi, P., Ye, W.C., Zhang, A.W., Gladish, N., Cheng, S.Y.S., Rothe, K., Pilsworth, J.A., Kang, M.A., et al. (2017). CuboCube: Student creation of a cancer genetics e-textbook using open-access software for social learning. PLoS Biology, 15 (3) , art. no. e2001192. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001192

Veletsianos, G. (2015). A case study of scholars’ open and sharing practices. Open Praxis, 7(3), 199–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.7.3.206

Open educational resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources: Global Report 2017 – October 17, 2017

DeVries, I. (2013). Evaluating open education resources: Lessons learned. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 83(4), 56-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.012

Downes, S. (2019). A look at the future of open educational resources. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, Vol. (2). https://www.ijoer.org/a-look-at-the-future-of-open-educational-resources/

Earle, S. (2019). What students like (and dislike) about open educational resources. BCcampus. https://bccampus.ca/2019/03/12/what-students-like-and-dislike-about-open-educational-resources/#_ftnref1

Fields, E. (2018). Intersections of open pedagogy and critical information literacy: A case study. BCcampus. https://bccampus.ca/2018/11/27/intersections-of-open-pedagogy-and-critical-information-literacy-a-case-study/

Hendricks, C. (2015). Teaching and learning philosophy in the open. American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Studies in Pedagogy, 1, 17-32. DOI: 10.5840/aaptstudies20159162 https://philpapers.org/archive/HENTAL-3.pdf

Ives, C., & Pringle, M. M. (2013). Moving to open educational resources at Athabasca University: A case study. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 14(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v14i2.1534

Joseph, K., Guy, J., & McNally, M.B. (2019). Toward a critical approach for OER: A case study in removing the ‘big five’ from OER creation. Open Praxis, 11(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.4.1020

Lapum, J. L., St-Amant, O. M., Verkuyl, M., Garcia, W., Tan, A., Freeman, W., & Savicevic, N. (2020). Designing open access, educational resources / Développer des ressources éducatives en libre accès. Quality Advancement in Nursing Education – Avancées en formation infirmière, 5(2), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.17483/2368-6669.1193

McNally, M.B., & Christiansen, E.G. (2019). Open enough? Eight factors to consider when transitioning from closed to open resources and courses: A conceptual framework. First Monday, 24(6). http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i6.9180

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

Open textbooks

Earle, S. (2019). What students like (and dislike) about open educational resources. BCcampus. https://bccampus.ca/2019/03/12/what-students-like-and-dislike-about-open-educational-resources/#_ftnref1

Jhangiani, R. S., Dastur, F. N., LeGrand, R., & Penner, K. (2018). As good or better than commercial textbooks: Students’ perceptions and outcomes from using open digital and open print textbooks. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2018.1.5

Open universities

Shale, D. (1987). Innovation in International Higher Education: The Open Universities. International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education (IJEDE), 2(1): 7-24. http://ijede.ca/index.php/jde/article/view/310/204

Paying for OER

Stacey, P. (2013). Government support for open educational resources: Policy, funding, and strategies. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 14(2), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v14i2.1537

Perception/attitude/awareness

Hendricks, C., Reinsberg, S.A., Rieger, G.W. (2017). The adoption of an open textbook in a large Physics course: An analysis of cost, outcomes, use and perceptions. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3006

Jhangiani, R. S., & Jhangiani, S. (2017). Investigating the perceptions, use, and impact of open textbooks: A survey of post-secondary students in British Columbia. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3012

Jhangiani, R. S., Pitt, R., Hendricks, C., Key, J., & Lalonde, C. (2016). Exploring the use of open educational resources at BC post-secondary institutions. Victoria, BC: BCcampus. https://opentextbc.ca/openedinfo/wp-content/uploads/sites/214/2018/10/BCFacultyUseOfOER-final.pdf

Paskevicius, M., Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2018). Content is king: An analysis of how the Twitter discourse surrounding open education unfolded from 2009 to 2016. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v19i1.3267

Platforms

Maxwell, J.W., Hanson, E., Desai, L., Tiampo, C., O’Donnell, K., Ketheeswaran, A., Sun, M., Walter, E., Michelle, E. (2019). Mind the Gap: A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms (1st ed.). https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/

Policy

Skidmore, J., & Provida, M. (2019). A place for policy: The role of policy in supporting open educational resources and practices at Ontario’s colleges and universities [Research report]. https://www.ecampusontario.ca/publications-reports/

Publishers/publishing

Waller, M., Cross, W.M., & Rigling L.S. (2017). The open textbook toolkit: Seeding Successful partnerships for collaboration between academic libraries and university presses. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 49(1), 53-65. University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/jsp.49.1.53

Social justice

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

Sustainability

Downes, S. (2007). Models for sustainable open  educational resources. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects, 3, 29-44. https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/object/?id=dfac7874-dbe9-40f9-8f06-3212ef05ddf8

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

Textbook costs

Council of Atlantic University Libraries | Conseil des bibliotheques universitaires de l’Atlantique. (2018). Final report of the CAUL-CBUA open textbooks survey working group. Bedford, NS: Smith, A., Brown, G., Doucette, P., Moses, D., Nason, M., & Holt, C. https://caul-cbua.ca/sites/default/files/CAUL-CBUA%20Open%20Textbooks%20Survey%20Working%20Group%20Final%20Report_0.pdf

University of Guelph. (2016).  Student textbook survey.

Usher, A. (2015). Data on textbook costs. Higher Education Strategy Associates. http://higheredstrategy.com/data-on-textbook-costs/

Tuition fees

The Case for Renewal in Post-Secondary Education – March 16, 2017 (paper from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)

See “Tuition and Textbooks” (pg 11) in 2016 Academic Experience Survey Report by VP Academic & University Affairs Office 2016/2017 (UBC)

 

State and federal government policies

Access codes/assessment platforms

Schaffhauser, D. (2018, January 26). Bundles and access codes destroy efforts to cut textbook pricing. Campus Technology. PDF of original plan: Open 101-An action plan for affordable textbooks, The Student PIRGS.

Accessibility

Azadbakht, E., & Schultz, T. (2022). Conversations With Open Textbook Authors: The Factors That Help and Hinder Accessibility. Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education, 1(1), 212–228. https://doi.org/10.13001/joerhe.v1i1.7157

Adoption

Belikov, O. M., & Bodily, R. (2016). Incentives and barriers to OER adoption: A qualitative analysis of faculty perceptions. Open Praxis, 8(3), 235–246. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.8.3.308

Bell, S. (2018). Course materials adoption: A faculty survey and outlook for the OER landscape, ACRL/Choice, publisher.

Braddlee, Dr.,& VanScoy, A. (n.d.) Bridging the chasm: Faculty support roles for academic librarians in the adoption of open educational resources. College & Research Libraries preprint. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.80.4.426

The California OER Council (2016). OER Adoption Study: Using Open Educational Resources in the College Classroom.

Chae, B., & Jenkins, M. (2015). A qualitative investigation of faculty open educational resource usage in the Washington Community and Technical College System: Models for support and implementation. Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4eZdZMtpULyZC1NRHMzOEhRRzg/view?pli=1

Chiorescu, M. (2017). Exploring open educational resources for college algebra. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3003/4223

Dempsey, M., & Nann, A. (2020). Librarian advocacy for open educational resource adoptions and programs. The International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 3 (1). https://www.ijoer.org/librarian-advocacy-for-open-educational-resource-adoptions-and-programs/

Hilton, J., Gaudet, D., Clark, P., Robinson, J., & Wiley, D. (2013). The adoption of open educational resources by one community college math department. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 14(4), 37–50. http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1523/2652

McNally, M., & Christiansen, E. (2019). Open enough? Eight factors to consider when transitioning from closed to open resources and courses: A conceptual framework. First Monday, 24(6). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i6.9180

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/s12528-017-9138-0

Pawlyshyn, Braddlee, Casper and Miller (2013). Adopting OER: A Case Study of Cross-Institutional Collaboration and Innovation. Educause Review. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2013/11/adopting-oer-a-case-study-of-crossinstitutional-collaboration-and-innovation

Petrides, L., Jimes, C., Detzner, C. M., Walling, J., & Weiss, S. (2011). Open textbook adoption and use: implications for teachers and learners. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 26(1), 39-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2011.538563

Wiley, D., Williams, L., DeMarte, D., & Hilton, J. (2016). The Tidewater Z-Degree and the INTRO Model for Sustaining OER Adoption. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 24, 41. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.1828

Advocacy

Batte, E.B. (2020). Emotional labor in open access advocacy: A librarian’s perspective. The International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 3 (1). https://www.ijoer.org/emotional-labor-in-open-access-advocacy-a-librarians-perspective/

Dempsey, M., & Nann, A. (2020). Librarian advocacy for open educational resource adoptions and programs. The International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 3 (1). https://www.ijoer.org/librarian-advocacy-for-open-educational-resource-adoptions-and-programs/

Young, J.R. (2018, October 31). Campus support for OER is growing, survey finds. EdSurge. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-10-30-campus-support-for-oer-is-growing-survey-finds (Original research: The 2018 Campus Computing Survey.)

Awareness

Thompson, L., Lantz, J., and Sullivan, B. (2019). Pre-service teacher awareness of open educational resources. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, Vol. 1 (2). https://www.ijoer.org/pre-service-teacher-awareness-of-open-educational-resources/

Booksellers/bookstores

Sanders, C. (2019). Let Us Get You Into College: Community College Librarians, Barnes & Noble, and OER. OLA Quarterly, 24(3), 29-39. https://doi.org/10.7710/1093-7374.1952

Schmitt, M., & Shi, T. (2018). Secondary Markets and Firm Profits: Evidence from College Textbooks, UCLA Analysis Group. https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/fac/policy/SchmittShi_SecondaryMarkets_09102018.pdf

Copyright

Also see Creative Commons licences.

Boston, A.J. (2019). Copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons. Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v3i3.8193

Freeman, A., & Taylor, T. (2019). Copyright and Creative Commons for course materials. Scholar Commons, University of South Carolina University Libraries. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/lib_facpub/46/

Nguyen, N. A. (2010). Not all textbooks are created equal: Copyright, fair use, and open access in the Open College Textbook Act of 2010. Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law, 21(1), 105–130. https://via.library.depaul.edu/jatip/vol21/iss1/5

Weeramuni, L., (2019). How to fight Fair Use fear, uncertainty, and doubt: The experience of one open educational resource. Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 3(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v3i1.97

Courses

Hill, P. (2019). State of higher ed LMS market for US and Canada: 2019 mid-year edition. Phil on Ed Tech. https://philonedtech.com/state-of-higher-ed-lms-market-for-us-and-canada-2019-mid-year-edition/

Johansen, J. & Wiley, D. (2011). A sustainable model for open courseware development. Educational Technology Research & Development, 59(3), p. 369-382. http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2353

Creative Commons licences

Also see Copyright.

Bolick, J. (2018). Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons license requirement to undermine embargo. Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v2i2.7415

Creative Commons (2022). Toward Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage–An Agenda for Copyright Reform. https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Creative-Commons-Policy-Paper-on-GLAMs-Final.pdf

Kelly, E.J. (2019). Digital cultural heritage and Wikimedia commons licenses: Copyright or copywrong? Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 3(3). https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v3i3.9771

Discoverability

Sobotka, C., Wheeler, H., & White, H. (2019). Leveraging Cataloging and Collection Development Expertise to Improve OER Discovery. OLA Quarterly, 25(1), 17-24. https://doi.org/10.7710/1093-7374.1971

Efficacy and student outcomes

Al Abri, M., & Dabbagh, N. (2019). Testing the Intervention of OER renewable assignments in a college course. Open Praxis, 11(2), 195-209. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.2.916

Allen, G., Guzman-Alvarez, A., Smith, A., Gamage, A., Molinaro, M., & Larsen, D. S. (2015). Evaluating the effectiveness of the open-access ChemWiki resource as a replacement for traditional general chemistry textbooks. Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 16(4), 939-948. doi: 10.1039/C5RP00084J

Also see: Allen, G., Guzman-Alvarez, A., Molinaro, M., Larsen, D. (2015). Assessing the impact and efficacy of the open-access ChemWiki Textbook Project. Educause Learning Initiative Brief. https://library.educause.edu/resources/2015/1/assessing-the-impact-and-efficacy-of-the-openaccess-chemwiki-textbook-project (Also see this newsletter.)

Clinton, V., & Khan, S. (2019). Efficacy of open textbook adoption on learning performance and course withdrawal rates: A meta-analysis. AERA Open, 5(3), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858419872212

Clinton, V., Legerski, E., & Rhodes, B. (2019). Comparing student learning from and perceptions of open and commercial textbook excerpts: A randomized experiment. Frontiers in Education. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00110

Clinton, V. (2018). Savings without sacrifices: A case study of open-source textbook adoption. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance, and e-Learning. https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio /324088320_Savings_without_sacrifice_A_case_report_on_open-source_textbook_adoption

Colvard, N.B., Watson, C.E., Park, H. (2018). The impact of open educational resources on various student success metrics. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 30(2), 262-276. http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/pdf/IJTLHE3386.pdf

Cooney, C. (2017). What impacts do OER have on students? Students share their experiences with a health psychology OER at New York City College of Technology. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3111/4216

Croteau, E. (2017). Measures of student success with textbook transformations: The Affordable Learning Georgia Initiative. Open Praxis, 9(1), 93-108. https://openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/505/251

Cummings-Clay, D. (2020). Impact of OER in Teacher Education. Open Praxis, 12(4), 541-554. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.12.4.1112

Feldstein, A., Martin, M., Hudson, A., Warren, K., Hilton, J., & Wiley, D. (2012). Open textbooks and increased student access and outcomes. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2, 1-9. http://www.eurodl.org/index.php?p=archives&year=2012&halfyear=2&article=533

Finlayson, C. (2020). Opening World Regional Geography: A Case Study. Open Praxis, 12(2), 271-282. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.12.2.1087

Fischer, L., Belikov, O., Ikahihifo, T., Hilton III, J., Wiley, D., & Martin, M. (2020). Academic Librarians Examination of University Students’ and Faculty’s Perceptions of Open Educational Resources. Open Praxis, 12(3), 399-415. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.12.3.1081

Fischer, L., Hilton III, J., Robinson, T. J., & Wiley, D. A. (2015). A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 27(3), 159-172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-015-9101-x

Gil, P., Candelas, F., Jara, C., Garcia, G., Torres, F (2013). Web-based OERs in Computer Networks. International Journal of Engineering Education, 29(6), 1537-1550. PDF.

Grewe, K., & Davis, W. P. (2017). The impact of enrollment in an OER course on student learning outcomes. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2986/4211

Griffiths, R., Mislevy, J., Wang, S., Ball, A., Shear, L., & Desrochers, D. (2020). OER at scale: The academic and economic outcomes of Achieving the Dream’s OER degree initiative. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International. https://www.achievingthedream.org/resource/17993/oer-at-scale-the-academic-and-economic-outcomes-of-achieving-the-dream-s-oer-degree-initiative

Grimaldi, P.J., Mallick, D.B., Waters, A.E., Baraniu, R.G. (2019). Do open educational resources improve student learning? Implications of the access hypothesis. PLOS ONE, 14(3): eo212508. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212508

Hilton, J. (2019). Open educational resources, student efficacy, and user perceptions: a synthesis of research published between 2015 and 2018. Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-019-09700-4

Hilton, J. (2016). Open educational resources and college textbook choices: A review of research on efficacy and perceptions. Educational Technology Research and Development, 64(4), 573-590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-016-9434-9

Hilton, J., Fischer, L., Wiley, D., & Williams, L. (2016). Maintaining momentum toward graduation: OER and the course throughput rate. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 17(6). http://dx.doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v17i6.2686

Hilton, J., Laman, C. (2012). One college’s use of an open psychology textbook. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 27(3), 201–217. PDF.

Hilton, J., Larsen, R., Wiley, D. & Fischer, L. (2019). Substituting open educational resources for commercial curriculum materials: effects on student mathematics achievement in elementary schools, >Research in Mathematics Education, 21:1, 60-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794802.2019.1573150

Kersey, S. (2019). The effectiveness of open educational resources in college calculus. A quantitative study. Open Praxis, 11(2), 185-193. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.2.935

Lawrence and Lester (2018). Evaluating the effectiveness of adopting open educational resources in an introductory American government course. Journal of Political Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2017.1422739

LeMire, S. (2024). Beyond cost savings. The impact of open textbooks on writing studies course grades. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 19(2). https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30490

Lovett, M., Meyer, O., & Thille, C. (2008). The open learning initiative: Measuring the effectiveness of the OLI statistics course in accelerating student learning. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2008 (1). PDF

Nusbaum, A.T., & Cuttler, C. (2020). Hidden impacts of OER: Effects of OER on instructor ratings and course selection. Front Educ., 5:72. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00072

Pfannenstiel, A., Redcay, A., & Albert, D. (2020). Student Perceptions of Textbooks: Prior Behaviors and Beliefs Can Influence Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Adoption Impact. Open Praxis, 12(4), 555-567. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.12.4.1119

Robinson, T. J., Fischer, L., Wiley, D., & Hilton, J. (2014). The impact of open textbooks on secondary science learning outcomes. Educational Researcher, 43(7), 341-3351. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X14550275

Ryan, S. (2022). Improving student success through the use of open educational resources [white paper]. Yavapai College. https://www.yc.edu/v6/teaching-and-elearning-support/faculty/docs/improving-student-success-through-oer.pdf

Shaw, C.S., Irwin, K.C., Blanton, D. (2019). Impact of open educational resources on course DFWI rates in undergraduate online education. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, Vol.1 (2). https://www.ijoer.org/impact-of-open-educational-resources-on-course-dfwi-rates-in-undergraduate-online-education

Springer, M.T. (2019). Adapting and adopting open educational resources: An analysis of student cost savings, use, performance, and perception. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, Vol. 1 (2). https://www.ijoer.org/adapting-and-adopting-open-educational-resources/

Stovall, J.P., Laird, S.G., Welford, L., & Williams. A. (2019). Student and instructor generated open educational resources compare favorably to a traditional textbook. Journal of Forestry, 117(4), 370-378. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvz035

Tipton, J. (2020).  Faculty use of open educational resources: Attitudes, norms, and self-efficacy as behavioral predictors. Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 1825. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1825

Winitzky-Stephens, J. R., & Pickavance, J. (2017). Open educational resources and student course outcomes: A multilevel analysis. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3118/4224

Equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI)

Croft, B., & Brown, M. (2020). Inclusive open education: Presumptions, principles, and practices. Distance Education, 41(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757410

Dai, J.Y., & Carpenter, L.I. (2020). Bad (feminist) librarians: Theories and strategies for OER librarianship. The International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 3 (1). https://www.ijoer.org/bad-feminist-librarians-theories-and-strategies-for-oer-librarianship/

Hardin, J. (2013). Investigating the intersections of open educational resources and inclusive educational practices (Unpublished masters dissertation). OCAD, Toronto, Canada. http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/152/1/J_Hardin_MRP_Report_FINAL_Jan_7_2014_disc.pdf

Nusbaum, A.T., Cuttler, A., & Swindell, S. (2020). Open educational resources as a tool for educational equity: Evidence from an introductory psychology class. Front. Educ, 4:152. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00152

General

Becker, S.A., Brown, M., Dahlstrom, E., Davis, A., DePaul, K., Diaz, V., & Pomerantz, J. (2018). NMC Horizon Report: 2018 Higher Education Edition. Louisville, CO: Educause. https://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2018/8/2018horizonreport.pdf

Brown, M., McCormack, M., Reeves, J., Brooks, D.C., & Grajek, S. (2020). 2020 Educause Horizon Report, Teaching and Learning Edition. Louisville, DO; Educause. https://library.educause.edu/resources/2020/3/2020-educause-horizon-report-teaching-and-learning-edition

Caswell, T., Hensen, S., Jensen, M., & Wiley, D. (2008). Open educational resources: Enabling universal education. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 9(1). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/469/1001

Durham, E., & Braxton, S. (2019). “Advancing an open educational resource initiative through collaborative leadership. The International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 2(1).

Hilton, J. & Wiley, D. (2010). Free: Why authors are giving books away on the internet. Tech Trends, 54(2). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/825/

Kinskey, C. and Lewis Miller, C. (2019). Creating faculty development on OER. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, Vol. 1 (2). https://www.ijoer.org/creating-faculty-professional-development-on-oer

Mott, J. & Wiley, D. (2009). Open for learning: The CMS and the open learning network. In Education, 15(2). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/113

Tonks, D., Weston, S., Wiley, D., & Barbour, M. (2013). “Opening” a new kind of school: The story of the Open High School of Utah. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 14(1). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1345/2419

Wiley, D. (2010). Impediments to learning object reuse and openness as a potential solution. Revista Brasileira de Informática na Educação, 17(3). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1232

Wiley, D. (2006). Open source, openness, and higher education. Innovate Journal of Online Education, 3(1). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/289

Wiley, D. & Hilton, J. (2009). Openness, dynamic specialization, and the disaggregated future of higher education International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 10(5). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/768/1414

Homework systems

Bodily, R. (N.d.). Report on lack of homework systems as a barrier to the adoption of open educational resources. Oregon: Open Oregon Educational Resources. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-J6TXqfqqmuM2Nmd3hRb2hNOGFkNVM3OXdXOTBCSnVLaFlJ/view

Information technology (IT)

The Campus Computing Survey – an annual survey, begun in 1990, is the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American higher education.

Instructional designers (ID)

Ren, X. (2019). The undefined figure: Instructional designers in the open educational resource (OER) movement in higher education. Educ Inf Technol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-019-09940-0

Libraries/librarians

Also see Discoverability on this page.

California Community College Librarian Survey on OER – 2019

Braddlee, Dr.,& VanScoy, A. (n.d.) Bridging the chasm: Faculty support roles for academic librarians in the adoption of open educational resources. College & Research Libraries preprint. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.80.4.426

Breeding, M. (2019). Library Systems Report 2019. American Libraries. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/05/01/library-systems-report-2019/

Colson, R., Scott, E., Donaldson, R. (2017). Supporting librarians in making the business case for OER. The Reference Librarian, 58(4), 278-287. https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2017.1377665

Kennison, R., Ruttenberg, J., Shorish, Y., & Thompson, L. (2019, September 11). OA in the Open: Community Needs and Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/g972d

Larson, A.C. (2020). Open education librarianship: A position description analysis of the newly emerging role in academic libraries. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 3(1). https://www.ijoer.org/open-education-librarianship-a-position-description-analysis-of-the-newly-emerging-role-in-academic-libraries/

Miller, R., & Homol, L. (2016). Building an online curriculum based on OERs: The library’s role. Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 10(3–4), 349–359. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533290X.2016.1223957

Okamoto, K. (2013). Making higher education more affordable, one course reading at a time: Academic libraries as key advocates for open access textbooks and educational resources. Public Services Quarterly, 9(4), 267–283. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228959.2013.842397

Orzech, M.J., & Abramovich, S.J. (2020). Perceptions and practice of openness among academic librarians. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 3(1). https://www.ijoer.org/perceptions-and-practice-of-openness-among-academic-librarians/

Schoppert, J. (2020). Librarian Leadership in Open Education Resources: Implementing and Supporting Innovation in Community Colleges. : Oregon State University. https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/sj1398289

Smith, B., Lee, L. (2017). Librarians and OER: Cultivating a community of practice to be mroe effective advocates. Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 11. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533290X.2016.1226592

Walz, Anita, Kristi Jensen, and Joseph A. Salem, Jr. Affordable Course Content and Open Educational Resources. SPEC Kit 351. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, July 2016. https://doi.org/10.29242/spec.351

Metadata and repositories

Bothmann, B. (2020). A recommendation for core metadata elements for use in OER repositories. Minnesota State University, Mankato.https://drive.google.com/file/d/15L6odisnSbqth1IJNvIDrhMWK_BxDlzB/view

Open educational practices (OEP)/pedagogy

Bloom, M. (2019). Assessing the impact of “open pedagogy” on student skills mastery in first-year composition. Open Praxis, 11(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.4.1025

Gurell, S. (2012). Measuring the Technical Difficulty in Reusing Open Educational Resources with the ALMS Analysis Framework. Dissertation. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3472

Hilton, J., Wiley, D., Chaffee, R., Darrow, J., Guilmett, J., Harper, S., & Hilton, B. (2019). Student perceptions of open pedagogy: An exploratory study. Open Praxis, 11(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.3.973

Hilton, J., Lutz, N., Wiley, D. (2012). Examining the reuse of open textbooks.
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v13i2.1137

Leggett, J.M., Wen, J., & Chatman, A. (2018). Emancipatory learning, open educational resources, open education, and digital critical participatory action research. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning , Innovative Pedagogy, 1 , Article 4. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/sotl_ip/vol1/iss1/4

McDowell, Z. J. and Stewart, M. (2019). Student learning outcomes with Wikipedia-based assignments. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, Vol. 1(2). https://ijoer.org/student-learning-outcomes-with-wikipedia-based-assignments

Nizami, U., & Shambaugh, A. (2019). Open pedagogy through community-directed, student-led partnerships: Establishing CURE (Community-University Research Exchange) at Temple University Libraries. Open Praxis, 11(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.4.1028

Van Allen, J., & Katz, S. (2019). Developing Open Practices in Teacher Education: An Example of Integrating OER and Developing Renewable Assignments. Open Praxis, 11(3), 311-319. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.3.972

Werth, E.,  & Williams, K. (2021). Learning to be open: instructor growth through open pedagogy. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2021.1970520

Wiley, D., Hilton, J. (2018). Defining OER-enabled pedagogy. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3601/4724

Wiley, D., Webb, A., Weston, S., & Tonks, D. (2017). A preliminary exploration of the relationships between student-created OER, sustainability, and students success. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3022/4222

Zhu, M. (2020). Effective Pedagogical Strategies for STEM Education from Instructors’ Perspective: OER for Educators. Open Praxis, 12(2), 257-270. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.12.2.1074

Open educational resources (OER)

Allen, I.E., Seaman, J. (2012). Growing the curriculum: Open education resources in U.S. higher education, Babson Survey Research Group.

Allen, I.E., Seaman, J. (2014). Opening the curriculum: Open educational resources in U.S. higher education, Babson Survey Research Group.

• David Wiley’s (Lumen) response – November 3, 2014
• Phil Hill (e-Literate) response – October 29, 2014
• 20 million minds response – October 31, 2014

Allen, I.E., Seaman, J. (2016). Opening the textbook: Educational resources in U.S. higher education, 2015-16, Babson Survey Research Group.

• Press release
• Chronicle story
• Inside Higher Education story

Atkins, D. E., Brown, J. S., & Hammond, A. L. (2007). A review of the open educational resources (OER) movement: Achievements, challenges, and new opportunities. San Francisco, CA: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Colorado Open Educational Resources Council (2017). Report to the Joint Budget Committee and the Education Committees of the General Assembly Open Educational Resources in Colorado. Colorado Department of Higher Education. https://highered.colorado.gov/Publications/Reports/legislative/OER/OER_Nov2017.pdf

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

Griffiths, R., Joshi, E., Pellerin, E., & Wingard, A. (2022). Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources (OER). Menlo Park, CA: SRI International. https://www.achievingthedream.org/teaching-and-learning-with-OER-report

Hilton, J.L., Gaudet, D., Clark, P., Robinson, J., Wiley, D. (2013). The adoption of open educational resources by one community college math department. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 14(4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1523/2652

Hilton, J., Wiley, D., Stein, J., Johnson, A. (2010). The four R’s of openness and ALMS Analysis: Frameworks for open rducational resources. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning. http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2133

Nyanweya, M. (2019). 2018-2019 Connect OER Report. Washington, DC: SPARC. https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2018-19-Connect-OER-Report.pdf

Piña, A. A., & Moran, K. A. (2018). Effects of an open educational resources initiative on students, faculty and instructional designers. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 21(2).

Seaman, J.E. Seaman, J. (2020). Digital texts in the time of COVID: Educational resources in U.S. higher education, 2020, Babson Survey Research Group. https://www.bayviewanalytics.com/reports/digitaltextsinthetimeofcovid.pdf

Seaman, J.E. Seaman, J. (2018). Freeing the textbook: Educational resources in U.S. higher education, 2018, Babson Survey Research Group.

Seaman, J.E. Seaman, J. (2020). The impact of OER initiatives on faculty selection of classroom materials, 2020, Babson Survey Research Group. https://www.bayviewanalytics.com/reports/impactofoerinitiatives.pdf

• Inside Higher Ed blog – March 23, 2021

Seaman, J.E., Seaman, J. (2020). Inflection point: Educational resources in U.S. higher education, 2019, Bayview Analytics.

Seaman, J.E., Seaman, J. (2017). Opening the textbook: Educational resources in U.S. higher education, 2017, Babson Survey Research Group.

Spilovoy, T.M., Seaman, J. (2015). Opening public institutions: OER in North Dakota and the nation, 2015, Babson Survey Research Group.

Thoms, J. J., Arshavskaya, E., & Poole, F. J. (2018). Open educational resources and ESL education: Insights from U.S. educators. The Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language, 22(2), 1–24.

Werth, E., & Williams, K. (2021). What Motivates Students About Open Pedagogy? Motivational Regulation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 22(3), 34-54. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v22i3.5373

Wiley, D., Bliss, T. J., & McEwen, M. (2014). Open educational resources: A review of the literature. In J. M. Spector, M. D., Merrill, J. Elen, & M. J. Bishop. (Eds.), Handbook of research on educational communications and technology (pp. 781-789). New York: Springer.

Open textbooks

American Council on Education. Quick hits: Open textbooks: The current state of play. https://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Quick-Hits-Open-Textbooks.aspx

Anderson, T., & Cuttler, C. (2020). Open to Open? An exploration of textbook preferences and strategies to offset textbook costs for online versus on-campus students. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 21(1), 40-60. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i5.4141

Baker, J., Thierstein, J., Fletcher, K., Kaur, M., & Emmons, J. (2009). Open textbook proof-of-concept via connexions. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 10(5). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/633/1387

Feldstein, A., Martin, M., Hudson, A., Hilton, J., & Wiley, D. (2012). Open textbooks and increased student access and outcomes. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning. https://www.eurodl.org/index.php?p=archives&year=2012&halfyear=2&article=533

Jhangiani, R. S., Dastur, F. N., Le Grand, R., & Penner, K. (2018). As good or better than commercial textbooks: Students’ perceptions and outcomes from using open digital and open print textbooks. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9 (1). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2018.1.5

Kimmons, Royce. (2015). OER quality and adaptation in K-12: Comparing teacher evaluations of copyright-restricted, open, and open/adapted textbooks. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 16(5), 39-57. https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/irrodl/2015-v16-n5-irrodl05031/1066300ar/

NOVA Student Government Association. Free textbook survey.

Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. (2020, March 31). Proposed Priorities, Requirement, and Definitions-Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education-Open Textbooks Pilot Program (85 FR 17805). Federal Register, The Daily Journal of the United States Government. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/31/2020-06350/proposed-priorities-requirement-and-definitions-fund-for-the-improvement-of-postsecondary

Waller, M., Cross, W., & Hayes, E. The Open Textbook Toolkit: Developing a new narrative for OER support. Cleveland, OH: American Library Association Conference presentation, April 10-13, 2019. http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2019/TheOpenTextbookToolkit.pdf

Woodward, S., Lloyd, A., & Kimmons, R. (2017). Student voice in textbook evaluation: Comparing open and restricted textbooks. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(6). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i6.3170

Perception/attitude/awareness

Bliss, T., Robinson, T. J., Hilton, J., & Wiley, D. (2013). An OER COUP: College teacher and student perceptions of Open Educational Resources. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 1–25.

Bliss, T., Hilton, J., Wiley, D., & Thanos, K. (2013). The cost and quality of online open textbooks: Perceptions of community college faculty and students. First Monday, 18(1).  http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3972/3383 .

Delimont, N., Turtle, E. C., Bennett, A., Adhikari, K., & Lindshield, B. L. (2016). University students and faculty have positive perceptions of open/alternative resources and their utilization in a textbook replacement initiative. Research in Learning Technology, 24. https://doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v24.29920

Gallaway, T.O. (2020). A narrative review and conceptual analysis of OER perception studies: Implications for developing a situational scale for faculty self-efficacy. The International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 3(1). https://www.ijoer.org/a-narrative-review-and-conceptual-analysis-of-oer-perception-studies-implications-for-developing-a-situational-scale-for-faculty-self-efficacy/

Hilton, J. (2016). Open educational resources and college textbook choices: A review of research on efficacy and perceptions. Educational Technology Research and Development, 64(4), 573-590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-016-9434-9

Illowsky, B. S., Hilton III, J., Whiting, J., & Ackerman, J. D. (2016). Examining student perception of an open statistics book. Open Praxis,8(3), 265-276. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.8.3.304

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). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3120/4218

Lin, H. (2019). Teaching and learning without a textbook. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 20(3). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i4.4224

Lindshield, B., & Adhikari, K. (2013). Campus and online U.S. college students’ attitudes toward an open educational resource course fee: A pilot study. International Journal of Higher Education, 2(4), 42–51. https://doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v2n4p42

Lindshield, B., & Adhikari, K. (2013). Online and campus college students like using an open educational resource instead of a traditional textbook. Journal of Online Learning & Teaching, 9(1), 1–7. http://jolt.merlot.org/vol9no1/lindshield_0313.htm

Martin, T., Hilton, J., Wiley, D. Fischer, L., Belikov, O. (2017). An Analysis of Student and Faculty Perceptions of Textbook Costs. Open Praxis, 9(1), 79-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.9.1.432

Morales, R., & Baker, A. (2018). Secondary Students’ Perceptions of Open Science Textbooks. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2018(1). http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.455

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/2381/3497

Wagner, K.M. (2019). Faculty and students’ perceptions of open educational resources vs. traditional textbooks. (Unpublished dissertation). Wilmington University, New Castle, Delaware, US. https://search.proquest.com/openview/cf2e5f0f185eff65c8b9cea8aad8acf8/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Watson, C. E., Domizi, D. P., & Clouser, S. A. (2017). Student and Faculty Perceptions of OpenStax in High Enrollment Courses. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(5). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2462/4299

Policy

Association of College and Research Libraries. (2019). Open and equitable scholarly communications: Creating a more inclusive future. Chicago, IL: Maron and Kennison. https://doi.org/10.5860/acrl.1

Printing

Hilton, J. & Wiley, D. (2011). Free e-books and print sales. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 14(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.109

Hilton, J. & Wiley, D. (2010). The short-term influence of free digital versions of books on print sales. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 13(1). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/826/

Jhangiani, R. S., Dastur, F. N., Le Grand, R., & Penner, K. (2018). As good or better than commercial textbooks: Students’ perceptions and outcomes from using open digital and open print textbooks. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9 (1). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2018.1.5

Publishers/publishing

Blog post: Open access publishing: New evidence on faculty attitudes and behaviors – April 15, 2019 (The Scholarly Kitchen)

• Referencing this research: Blankstein, M., & Wolff-Eisenberg, C. (2019, April 12). Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2018. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.311199

Aspesi, C., et al. (2019). SPARC Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry – Implications for Academic Institutions. https://sparcopen.org/our-work/landscape-analysis/

Association of American Publishers. (2019, February 12). AAP StatShot: Trade Book Publisher Revenue Increased by 4.6% in 2018. https://newsroom.publishers.org/aap-statshot-trade-book-publisher-revenue-increased-by-46-in-2018/

Randall, D. L., Johnson, J. C., West, R.E., Wiley, D.A. (2013). Teaching, doing and sharing project management: The development of an instructional design project management textbook. Educational Technology, 53(6), 24-28. http://danrandall.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Randall-Johnson-West-Wiley-Open-Source-Textbook.pdf

Scholastica. (2020, August 13). The state of journal production and access 2020: Report on survey of society and university publishers. https://s3.amazonaws.com/marketing.scholasticahq.com/State-Journal-Production-Access-2020.pdf

Quality

Bliss, T., Hilton, J., Wiley, D., Thanos, K. (2013). The cost and quality of open textbooks: Perceptions of community college faculty and students. First Monday, 18:1. http://danrandall.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Randall-Johnson-West-Wiley-Open-Source-Textbook.pdf

Bodily, R., Nyland, R., & Wiley, D. (2017). The RISE Framework: Using Learning Analytics to Automatically Identify Open Educational Resources for Continuous Improvement. International Review of Research on Distance and Open Learning, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i2.2952

Fischer, L., Ernst, D., & Mason, S. L. (2017). Rating the Quality of Open Textbooks: How Reviewer and Text Characteristics Predict Ratings. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2985/4217

Reading: paper vs. screen

Jabr. F. (2013, April 11). The reading brain in the digital age: The science of paper versus screens. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/

Religious colleges

Hilton, J. & Wiley, D. (2010). The creation and use of open educational resources in Christian higher education. Christian Higher Education, 9(1). http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2120

Retention

Hilton, J. Fischer, L., Wiley, D., Williams, L. (2016). Maintaining momentum toward graduation: OER and the course throughput rate, International Review of Research on Distance and Open Learning, 17(6): 1-10. http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2686/3967

Steven, M. (2012). The Effects of Previous Exposure to Independent Study Courses and Open Courseware on Withdrawal from Subsequent Independent Study Courses, MS Thesis.

Savings

Bliss, T., Hilton, J., Wiley, D., Thanos, K. (2013). The cost and quality of open textbooks: Perceptions of community college faculty and students. First Monday, 18:1. https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3972/3383

Clinton, V. (2018). Cost, outcomes, use, and perceptions of open educational resources in Psychoogy A narrative review of the literature. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 18(1), 4–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/1475725718799511

Clinton, V. (2018). Savings without sacrifices: A case study of open-source textbook adoption. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance, and e-Learning. https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio /324088320_Savings_without_sacrifice_A_case_report_on_open-source_textbook_adoption

Connecticut Open Educational Resources Coordinating Council. (2021). 2021 Legislative report, January 28, 2021. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1alDCc4-0AtbbjCAbgR5DeyxvFWEz9wLJ/view

DiSanto, J.M., Cummings-Clay, D., Mitchell, S., & Ford, M. (2020). Beyond saving money: Engaging multiple stakeholders is a key to OER success. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 2(1). https://ijoer.org/beyond-saving-money-engaging-multiple-stakeholders-is-a-key-to-oer-success/doi:10.18278/ijoer.2.1.14

Hilton, J.L., Robinson, T.J., Wiley, D., & Ackerman, J.D. (2014). Cost-savings achieved in two semesters through the adoption of open educational resources. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 15(2). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1700/2833

Ikahihifo, T. K., Spring, K. J., Rosecrans, J., & Watson, J. (2017). Assessing the savings from open educational resources on student academic goals. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(7). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i7.2754

Johnson, P., Hill, J., and Vigilant, S. (2020). Collaborative partnerships between state agencies and institutions of higher education: Working together to save students money through OER. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 2(1). https://ijoer.org/collaborative-partnerships-between-state-agencies-and-institutions-of-higher-education-working-together-to-save-students-money-through-oer-doi10-18278-ijoer-2-1-8

Nyamweya, M. (2018, December 20). A new method for estimating OER savings, SPARC.

Wiley, D., Hilton, J.L. H., Ellington, S., & Hall, T. (2012). A preliminary examination of the cost savings and learning impacts of using open textbooks in middle and high school science classes. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 13(3,) 262–276. http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1153/2256

Wiley, D. (2019). OER: Student savings and adoption rates. Lumen Learning.

Social justice

Brown, M., & Croft, B. (2020). Social annotation and an inclusive praxis for Open pedagogy in the college classroom. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1), 8. http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.561

Eaton, C. D., Bonner, K., Cangialosi, K., Dewsbury, B., Diamon-Stanic, M., Douma, J., … & Wilfong, K. (2022). Sustainability and justice: Challenges and opportunities for an open STEM education. CBE–Life Sciences Education, 21, 3. https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.20-08-0180

Jenkins, J.J., Sánchez, L.A., Schraedley, M.A.K., Hannans, J., Navick, N., & Young, J. (2020). Textbook broke: Textbook affordability as a social justice issue. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1). http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.549

Nusbaum, A. T. (2020). Who gets to wield academic Mjolnir?: On worthiness, knowledge curation, and using the power of the people to diversify OER. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1),4. http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.559

Student support

Langdon, A. & Parker, K. (2020). Bridging the gap: Rural librarians’ journey to understanding students’ role in OER outreach. International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 2(1). Retrieved from https://ijoer.org/bridging-the-gap-rural-librarians-journey-to-understanding-students-role-in-oer-outreach doi: 10.18278/ijoer.2.1.7

Read, K., Tang, H., Dhamija, A., & Bodily, B. (2020). Understanding the impact of OER courses in relation to student socioeconomic status and employment. The International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 3 (1). https://www.ijoer.org/understanding-the-impact-of-oer-courses-in-relation-to-student-socioeconomic-status-and-employment/

Supplemental materials

Kelly, D. P., & Rutherford, T. (2017). Khan Academy as supplemental instruction: A controlled study of a computer-based mathematics intervention. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2984/4221

Sustainability

Eaton, C. D., Bonner, K., Cangialosi, K., Dewsbury, B., Diamon-Stanic, M., Douma, J., … & Wilfong, K. (2022). Sustainability and justice: Challenges and opportunities for an open STEM education. CBE–Life Sciences Education, 21, 3. https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.20-08-0180

Gustafson, M. (2020). What does free mean? Orienting an OER program toward sustainability. The International Journal of Open Educational Resources, 3(1).  https://www.ijoer.org/what-does-free-mean-orienting-an-oer-program-toward-sustainability-doi10-18278-ijoer-2-1-10/

Hilton, J., & Wiley, D. (2011). Open-access textbooks and financial sustainability: a case study on Flat World Knowledge. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 12(5). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/960/1860

Hilton, J. & Wiley, D. (2010). A sustainable future for open textbooks? The Flat World Knowledge story. First Monday, 15 (8-2). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/828/

Wiley, D., Williams, L., DeMarte, D., & Hilton, J. (2016). The Tidewater Z-Degree and the INTRO Model for Sustaining OER Adoption. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 24, 41. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.1828

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

Textbook costs

Anon. (2019, December 12). New data shows continued decline in student spending on college course materials. Association of American Publishers. https://newsroom.publishers.org/new-data-shows-continued-decline-in-student-spending–on-college-course-materials/

Barnes, C., Vine, S., & Nadeau, R. (2024). Assessing textbook affordability before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of student and faculty surveys. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102864

Flatworld. (2019, June). FlatWorld Textbook Affordability Student.

Flatworld. (2018, October). Flatworld Textbook Cost Study 2018 [PDF].

Florida Virtual Campus

• 2022 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey – Executive Summary (PDF)
• 2022 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey – Results and Findings (PDF)
• 2022 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey (Infographic)

2018

• 2018 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey – Executive Summary (PDF)
• 2018 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey – Results and Findings (PDF)
• 2018 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey (Infographic)

Florida Virtual Campus. (2016). 2016 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey.

Also see: About the New Florida Virtual Campus Survey on Textbooks by Phil Hill, October 25, 2016 and  Comparing the 2016 and 2012 FLVC Student Textbook Survey Results by David Wiley, October 26, 2016

Hanson, Melanie. “Average Cost of College Textbooks” EducationData.org, July 15, 2022,
https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-textbooks

Jenkins, J.J., Hannans, J., Sanchez, L., & Leafstedt, J. (N.d.). Textbook affordability and student success for historically underserved populations at CSUCI. (White paper.) California State University Channel Islands. https://www.csuci.edu/tli/openci/openci-white-paper.pdf

Koch, J.V. (2006). An Economic Analysis of Textbook Pricing and Textbook Markets. ACSFA College Textbook Cost Study Plan Proposal. Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance.

Library Journal. (2019). Textbook affordability survey report. Sponsored by: Taylor & Francis Group. https://s3.amazonaws.com/WebVault/research/Textbook%20Affordability%20Survey%20Report-final.pdf

McConnell, E. (2017). How much are UConn students spending on textbooks? Affordable Textbooks Campaign. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SeaWUa2ssXEJbDojuTZNkYi3KTfMBc6j/view

Nagle, C., & Vitez, K. (2020). Fixing the broken textbook market, 3rd edition. U.S. PIRG Education Fund. https://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/Fixing-the-Broken-Textbook-Market_June-2020_v2.pdf

Nagle, C., & Vitez, K. (2020). Fixing the broken textbook market, 2nd edition. U.S. PIRG Education Fund. https://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/Fixing-the-Broken-Textbook-Market_June-2020_v2.pdf

Perry, M.J. (2019, July 12). Chart of the day… or century?: Price Changes (January 1998 to June 2019), Selected US Consumer Goods and Services, Wages. AEIdeas.

Perry, M.J. (2017, October 25). Wednesday afternoon links: Chart II (CPI: Educational Books and Supplies, Jan. 1967 to Sept. 2017). AEIdeas.

Rose, D., (2018). Are Private Universities Exempt from Student Concerns About Textbook Costs? A Survey of Students at American University. Open Praxis, 10 (3). https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.10.3.866

Wertzberger, J., Appedu, S., & Elmquist, M. R. (2020). “I spent my whole summer’s wages… on books alone”: Gettysburg College Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey. Musselman Library Staff Publications. https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/librarypubs/130

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Earl, S. (2013). Guides and Templates: A new approach to Universal Design for Learning in blended and online courses (Unpublished masters dissertation). OCAD, Toronto, Canada. http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/150/1/Earl_Sandra.pdf

Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) programs

Participant Experiences and Financial Impacts: Findings from Year 2 of Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative – October 18, 2018. (PDF: 2017 report; PDF: 2018 report).

Brandle, S., Katz, S., Hays, A., Beth, A., Cooney, C., DiSanto, J., Miles, L., Morrison, A. (2019). But what do the students think: Results of the CUNY cross-campus zero-textbook cost student survey. Open Praxis, 11(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.1.932

Griffiths, R., Mislevy, J., Wang, S., Shear, L., Mitchell, N., Bloom, M., Staisloff, R., Desrochers, D. (2017). Launching OER Degree Pathways: An Early Snapshot of Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative and Emerging Lessons. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International

Wiley, D., Williams, L., DeMarte, D., and Hilton, J. (2016). The Tidewater Z-Degree and the INTRO model for sustaining OER adoption. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 24(41), pp.1-12. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.1828

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

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