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Download full textThompson, 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
Cummings-Clay, Denise – Open Praxis, 2020
The purpose of this research study, which employed a quantitative research design, was to determine if there was a difference in the grades achieved by students who were enrolled in an entry-level Foundations of Education course using Open Educational Resources (OER) versus the grades achieved by students who used textbooks in other course…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education, Distance Education
Magro, Juliana; Tabaei, Sara V. – Open Praxis, 2020
This case study describes the library's experience of collaborating with an undergraduate Psychology Department at Touro College to integrate open textbooks into their program. We discuss the pedagogical changes as well as explore the impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) on students' savings, their academic outcomes and perceptions of OER.…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Pilot Projects, Psychology, Teacher Attitudes
Direct linkKatz, Stacy – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2019
Incentivizing faculty adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) as a method for reducing textbook costs to increase access and affordability of higher education has been an area of development in academic libraries. This study describes the experience at Lehman College, CUNY, the only four-year public college in the Bronx, NY and the alignment…
Descriptors: Expertise, Open Educational Resources, Institutional Mission, Academic Libraries
Cooney, Cailean – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
This article reports findings from a study conducted with students in three sections of a Health Psychology course that replaced a traditional textbook with open educational resources (OER) as the primary course material. The purpose of the study was to learn how OER impacted students. Data were collected in Fall 2015 with students from New York…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Shared Resources and Services, Student Attitudes, Interviews
