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Cohen, Guy; Cohen, Anat – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
Institutions, organisations, and policymakers use open educational resources (OERs) to promote student equity and social inclusion. The global COVID-19 crisis highlighted the need for lifelong learning and underscored the importance of the higher education system in this endeavour. This study describes informal learning among adults through OERs,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, COVID-19
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Hare, Sarah; Sullivan, Madison – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
Libraries continue to spearhead initiatives to incentivize instructors to adopt, adapt, and create open educational resources (OER). However, these programs often do not explicitly require educators to preserve the OER they create. Drawing on an analysis of semi-structured interviews with six experts, this article presents considerations for…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Preservation, Academic Libraries, Incentives
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Schultz, Teresa Auch; Azadbakht, Elena – College & Research Libraries, 2021
This project sought to study how much academic librarians who work with open educational resources (OERs) know about accessibility, as well as how they incorporate accessibility into the products of their work. A survey was sent out through email list services in spring 2020, and any librarian worldwide who works with OERs was invited to…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Suárez-Brito, Paloma; López-Caudana, Edgar Omar; Baena-Rojas, Jose Jaime; Ramírez-Montoya, Soledad – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2022
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) has increased due to its advantages for academic activities and educational quality. Hence, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have sought to develop strategies to promote curricular and extracurricular activities that favor developing disciplinary and transversal…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Educational Innovation
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Jung, Insung; Lee, Jihyun – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
The factors affecting the adoption of open educational resources (OER) in higher education have become a research topic of great interest as OER continue to be widely used in universities, affecting the quality of teaching and learning. The reasons for OER adoption are diverse, across both individual educators and cultural environments. This study…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, College Faculty, Cross Cultural Studies
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Marín, Victoria I.; Bond, Melissa; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Aydin, Cengiz H.; Bedenlier, Svenja; Bozkurt, Aras; Conrad, Dianne; Jung, Insung; Kondakci, Yasar; Prinsloo, Paul; Qayyum, Adnan; Roberts, Jennifer; Sangrà, Albert; van Tryon, Patricia J. Slagter; Veletsianos, George; Xiao, Junhong – Open Praxis, 2020
This paper reports on the first stage of an international comparative study for the project "'Digital educational architectures: Open learning resources in distributed learning infrastructures--EduArc,'" funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This study reviews the situation of digital educational resources (or…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Comparative Education, Educational Change
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Fischer, Lane; Ernst, David; Mason, Stacie – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
Using data collected from peer reviews for Open Textbook Library titles, this paper explores questions about rating the quality of open textbooks. The five research questions addressed the relationship between textbook and reviewer characteristics and ratings. Although reviewers gave textbooks high ratings generally, reviewers identified…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Shared Resources and Services, Electronic Publishing, Rating Scales
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Berti, Margherita – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This case study describes the development of a free-to-use online platform for storing, sharing, and accessing 360-degree Virtual Reality (VR) videos. Although in the past VR was mostly used for gaming purposes, in recent years it has become increasingly popular in numerous areas, including education. In the field of language learning, little is…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Second Language Learning
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Jung, Eulho; Bauer, Christine; Heaps, Allan – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The high cost of tuition and textbooks can have a negative impact on potential students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Open Educational Resources (OER) offers students a way to save educational costs while utilizing high-quality open textbooks. Up until now, there have been few studies focused on a specific provider of open textbooks. This…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Textbooks, Shared Resources and Services