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Download full textChad Flinn; Jason Openo – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2024
This paper examines the pervasive discourse of disruption in OER literature by recounting a facilitated conversation hosted at the 2023 Open Education Global conference held in Edmonton, Alberta. This dialogue used Bacchi's "what is the problem represented to be" (WPR) approach to structure the conversation in four movements. The first…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Persuasive Discourse, Conferences (Gatherings), Barriers
Bethel, Edward – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
Open educational resources (OER), are openly licensed text, media, and other digital and analog assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and research. Recent research has shown that in courses where open textbooks are assigned, students perform as well as or better than students in similar courses with commercially licensed textbooks.…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Foreign Countries, Textbook Evaluation, Instructional Effectiveness
Lane, David C.; Goode, Claire – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
This paper describes the functionality, scalability, and cost of implementing and maintaining a suite of open source technologies, which have supported hundreds of thousands of learners in the past year, on an information technology infrastructure budget of less than US$10,000 per year. In addition, it reviews pedagogical opportunities offered by…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Postsecondary Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Annand, David – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
Financial issues regarding the sustainable production, dissemination, and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education are reviewed and proposed solutions critiqued. Use of OER produce demonstrable cost savings for students. Yet OER development continues to rely almost completely on government and philanthropic funding. This…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Educational Resources, Open Education
