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C. Jimes; A. Karaglani; C. Hatcher; M. Singh; K. Torre; C. Gits; E. Tolman – Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2024
This report presents the results from the third biennial Texas OER Landscape Survey, administered in 2023 and commissioned by the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas (DigiTex) and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). The survey aimed to explore the open educational resources (OER) landscape, policies, and practices at…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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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
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Sawyer, Amanda G.; Dick, Lara K.; Sutherland, Pierre – Education Sciences, 2020
Online teacherpreneurs are teachers who use social media platforms to create, sell, and distribute educational resources to others. For many teachers, they have become the new curriculum developers in our virtually intensive world. Curriculum development in mathematics education has a large impact on how students understand concepts, but little is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Developed Materials, Entrepreneurship, Social Media
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Wöbbekind, Lea; Voland, Leoniea; Yener, Orhana; Boté-Vericad, Juan-Joséb; Argudo, Sílviab; Urbano, Cristóbalb; Mandl, Thomas – Education for Information, 2023
Open educational resources (OER) and digital education (DE) have shown the ability to improve teaching and learning possibilities, particularly in light of unpredictably occurring events. Especially the COVID-19 pandemic revealed that universities were experiencing technological, socio-psychological, and didactic issues. In order to promote,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Morgan, Tannis – Open Praxis, 2019
In their role as support to faculty in the course development process, Instructional Designers (IDs) can play an important part in alleviating some of the well-known barriers of open education practices (OEP): faculty time, institutional or faculty resistance to change, and institutional support for faculty (Annand & Jensen, 2017; Barker et…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Open Education, Barriers, Curriculum Development
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Sherena Huntsman; Avery C. Edenfield; Erin L. Davis – Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 2020
In this paper, we share our findings from a curricular innovation project: a small pilot study replacing a conventional professional communication textbook with an open access book. Results showed that students received the change favorably, and a final grade comparison showed no variation between similar courses that used conventional books and…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Open Educational Resources, Communications, Student Attitudes