Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer students free access to course content. Several colleges and universities are experimenting with them as a means to reach more students, and they continue to be a growing phenomenon within higher education. Is this a trend or is it the future of instruction? This webliography includes the following…

The bibliography lists 91 books and articles (1965-74) on open education. Entries are listed in alphabetical order by author (or source) and usually include name of publisher, date, length, and Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) number (when applicable). (LS)

This report describes the concept of open education, analyzes the content of the literature, and describes the development and final revision of a list of the characteristics of open education. The first half of the report describes the selection of literature to be examined for insight into open education, presents a framework in which to analyze…

The Forum Series is a collection of papers dealing with all phases of teacher education including inservice training and graduate study. This selection is an annotated bibliography in two parts: (1) Evaluation Issues and Methods; and (2) Studies of Alternative Environments. (DMT)

This bibliography is a union list of 188 holdings in City University of New York (CUNY) libraries on the subject of open education. It includes materials on British primary schools, the integrated day, and more specifically, books dealing with the psychology and methodology behind these terms. Books, sections of books, conference preceedings, and…

Over 120 films are listed which deal with alternatives in education, lifestyles, work, religion, crafts, and politics. Among topics covered are open classrooms, communes, changing family structures, day care, and racial problems. Each film is summarized; length, copyrights, date, producer, and distributor are listed. A brief bibliography, subject…

Approximately 200 studies were conducted on the Open Education Faculty (OEF) in Turkey between the years 1982 and 1997. This book aims to inform researchers on the literature about the OEF. The book consists of four main chapters. The first chapter is an introduction which gives an overview of worldwide distance education efforts and presents a…

This case study of historical research on the topic of higher education focuses on the history of postsecondary distance education in an industrialized nation. The social history of the Open Learning Institute (OLI) of British Columbia is used to analyze how a new higher education institution establishes itself in its community, the consequences…

After initial hostility and skepticism to Open Universities, the critical response became more favorable. From 1971 onwards there was a tremendous amount of writing about the Open University, not only in British journals and newspapers but also abroad. This bibliography incorporates over 130 entries dealing with the Open University in Great…

In this collection of selected offerings of the Workshop Center for Open Education, workshop leaders, both center staff and consultants, share the notes and references that were part of the sessions held during the first year-and-a-half of the Workshop Center's existence. The presentations, which are a cross-section of the Center's scheduled…

This bibliography is divided into eight subsections. The first section lists articles on community schools and schools without walls. The second encompasses the effects of alternative education. Student attitudes, academic achievement, and parental reaction are some of the variables assessed in the articles in this section. The third section is on…

Resources in Education and the Current Index to Journals in Education were computer searched to identify documents and journal articles which discussed various methods of evaluating the effectiveness of alternative schools and also presented such evaluation studies. The bibliography covers the evaluation of alternative schools at both the…

This booklet lists 100 books, articles, and theses dealing with the general topic of open plan schools. Most of the publications listed were published between 1965 and 1970, although a few entries are included from the period 1960-1965. ED numbers are given for those books that have been indexed and abstracted through the Educational Resources…

An alternative schools "explosion" is currently producing a large number of diverse educational choices for parents and students. Alternative schools, or those schools that offer all students a distinctive choice of educational programs, can be classified by philosophy, curriculum, or governance. This report defines, explains, and…

Evidence from evaluation studies of open classroom effects on children is not sufficiently consistent to warrant unqualified endorsement of that approach over more traditional methods. However, there is enough evidence to support the open classroom as a viable alternative when teachers and parents are interested in such a program. (RD)