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Direct linkMary Jo Orzech; Jie Zhang; Virginia Orzel; Shirin Sultana; Angela Thompsell; Jennifer Wood; Ning Yu – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2025
Open Educational Resources (OER) have been adopted by growing numbers in higher education during the last two decades. Online repositories contain a myriad of OER content, learning objects, and activities. This article presents six case studies from both new and experienced instructors across multiple disciplines at a single institution. It…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Activities, Resource Units
Download full textDorina Tila – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
This study investigates the effectiveness of Open Education Resources (OER) and research-based learning. A quantitative analysis was conducted on students enrolled in Macroeconomic courses at a City University of New York (CUNY) community college in Spring 2018 and Spring 2019. Prior studies have shown the positive effects of conducting research…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Research Skills, Research Training, Learning Processes
Bobkowski, Piotr S.; Younger, Karna; Watson, John C. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
This case study discusses the integration of information literacy instruction and assessment in a required research course for students of journalism and strategic communication at the University of Kansas. The integration consisted of four components: (1) a unifying threshold concept, (2) an open textbook, (3) a sequence of five assignments, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Journalism, Information Literacy, Case Studies
Chen, Deborah; Hendricks, Christina – Open Praxis, 2023
In recent years there have been several studies reviewing the benefits and challenges of open pedagogy projects for student engagement and learning. This study adds to that literature by reporting on a survey of students who wrote case studies in three courses in forestry and conservation studies, most of whom agreed to publish publicly and with a…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing (Composition), Case Studies, Forestry
Thompson, Virginia L.; Wallach, Patrick – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2023
This paper presents a case study conducted by two universities seeking to explore Open Education Resources (OER) in their precalculus course. Students not only gained access to their textbook for free on the first day of class, but also Lumen OHM, an online mathematics assessment platform. The majority of students involved in the study were…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Open Educational Resources, Calculus, Textbooks
Morgan, Tannis – Journal of Learning for Development, 2019
This study examined a Canadian post-secondary institution in the period between 2010 and 2014, with a follow-up assessment in 2018 in order to understand its evolution with open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP). In the first timeline, the study looked at drivers that contributed to the uptake of OER in relation to…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Sustainability, Postsecondary Education, Case Studies
Stracke, Christian M.; Sharma, Ramesh Chander; Bozkurt, Aras; Burgos, Daniel; Cassafieres, Cécile Swiatek; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; Mason, Jon; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Shon, Jin Gon; Wan, Marian; Agbu, Jane-Frances Obiageli; Farrow, Robert; Karakaya, Özlem; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Ramírez-Montoya, María Soledad; Conole, Grainne; Cox, Glenda; Truong, Vi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
In terms of scale, shock, and disenfranchisement, the disruption to formal education arising from COVID-19 has been unprecedented. Anecdotally, responses from teachers and educators around the world range from heightened caution to being inspired by distance education as the "new normal." Of all the challenges, face-to-face and formal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Open Education, Distance Education
Bussell, Hilary; Larson, Amanda – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
This case study describes how two librarians transformed an international information literacy course by creating a scaffolded open pedagogy experience for students to build transferable skills while exploring how information is produced, disseminated, and interpreted across the world. The authors discuss how we collaborated on the project to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Assignments, Case Studies
de Jong, M.; Munnik, M. E.; Will, N. U. – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2019
Opportunities for academic libraries to enrich their products and services through facilitating open education (OE) in higher education are presented in an overview of good practices. A case study of open textbook publishing was performed at TU Delft to study how these products and services could stimulate educators to adopt OE. A simplified user…
Descriptors: Universities, Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Publishing Industry
Mikhailova, Elena A.; Post, Christopher J.; Zurqani, Hamdi A.; Younts, Grayson L. – Education Sciences, 2022
Crowdsourcing is an important tool for collecting spatio-temporal data, which has various applications in education. The objectives of this study were to develop and test a laboratory exercise on soil erosion by water and field data crowdsourcing in an online introductory soil science course (FNR 2040: Soil Information Systems) at Clemson…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Geographic Information Systems
Werth, Eric; Williams, Katherine; Werth, Lori – Journal of Learning for Development, 2020
To aid students during COVID-19, the University of Pikeville transitioned all undergraduate classes to no-cost alternatives for course textbooks. Additionally, the academic calendar was modified for the first time in the institution's 130-year history from a traditional 16- week semester to 8-week block scheduling. This case study explores…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Distance Education, Online Courses, Universities
Benjamin, John D.; Donohue-Bergeler, Devon; Fuchs, Katrin; Lorenz, Alexander – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2020
This case study addresses the language-culture divide contributing to curricular bifurcation in many collegiate language departments and presents a lesson plan to help language instructors bridge the gap. The lesson on public transportation is designed for first-semester second language (L2) German students and focuses on a guided reading of a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Video Technology, German, College Students
Zaidi, Rahat; Metcalfe, Robin; Norton, Bonny – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2022
In response to Canada's growing ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity, educators in French immersion classrooms are increasingly responding with enhanced cross-linguistic initiatives, and dual language books are promising resources in the promotion of multilingualism (Zaidi, 2020; Zaidi & Dooley, 2021). This paper details a research…
Descriptors: Bilingual Instructional Materials, Multilingualism, Case Studies, French
King, Monty; Forsey, Martin; Pegrum, Mark – Learning, Media and Technology, 2019
This ethnography, based on fieldwork in Dili, Timor-Leste between 2015 and 2017, adopts an orthodox sociological theorising of agency to investigate the ways in which people in Dili negotiate the numerous interacting structural barriers to digital education. Having identified a lack of attention to learner agency in the literature on the promotion…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Mass Instruction, Open Educational Resources, Foreign Countries
Daniels, Patricia – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This small-scale pilot study enquired into the Open Educational Practices (OEPs) that freelance English language teachers in Switzerland are engaging in and the role these played in their Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Participants are members of a teaching association and work in adult education. Freelancers are often faced with…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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