Open Education Practices (OEP) have been proposed as a way to increase both engagement in learning, and lower costs. Broadly, Open Educational Practices involve learners in creating, evaluating, remixing, or otherwise modifying Open Education Resources (OER). Aspirational descriptions of OEP frame them both as liberatory by engaging learners…

Open remix, defined as the objects, processes, and mindsets developed through the act of combining or manipulating open educational resources to create something new (Hilton et al., 2010; Knobel & Lankshear, 2008; Lessig, 2004; Wiley, n.d.), serves as an effective teaching and learning practice for its propensity to expand technological…

This research project centers on in-service K-12 teachers' experiences of a continuing education course about open education resources (OER) and how to use them in ways that support students' ability to use identity resources while engaging with disciplinary learning experiences. Using a qualitative design-based research approach, I sought to both…

Growth mindset characteristics and the strategies used throughout education to encourage students to develop an incremental belief about their intelligence provides supportive traits for college students. This qualitative descriptive study looked at how college students in the southeast of the United States describe their growth mindset…