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Download full textChristoforidou, Alexandra; Georgiadou, Elissavet – Education Sciences, 2022
In recent years, Open Educational Resources (OER) have gained significant reach globally as a means of facilitating free and open access to educational materials. However, most of the empirical research on the adoption of OER in higher education is conducted in the US, while Europe and other countries, including Greece, fall behind. To that end,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, College Students
Otto, Daniel – Open Praxis, 2021
The idea of Open Educational Resources (OER) is nowadays widespread in higher education. However, notwithstanding their supposed benefits, the actual adoption of OER in teaching remains low. Due to this absence, various studies have primarily focused on (the lack of) OER awareness among teachers and identified barriers to their use. This article…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Experienced Teachers, Barriers
Direct linkBaas, Marjon; Schuwer, Robert; van den Berg, Ellen; Huizinga, Tjark; van der Rijst, Roeland; Admiraal, Wilfried – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Brokers are individuals who facilitate transfer of knowledge and resources, and coordinate efforts across boundaries of organizations. They are defined by their role rather than their organizational position. Brokers might be imperative for the formation and maintenance of inter-institutional relationship as they have the responsibility and the…
Descriptors: Information Scientists, Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Information Services
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
Luo, Tian; Hostetler, Kirsten; Freeman, Candice; Stefaniak, Jill – Open Learning, 2020
Open Educational Resources (OER) are becoming a significant, mission-driven trend within educational literature. To help address rising costs, instructors and designers are looking to OER to effectively replace traditional instructional content, which requires more than just identify and replace. Drawing from 51 OER studies conducted in countries…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Barriers, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods
Baas, Marjon; Admiraal, Wilfried; van den Berg, Ellen – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2019
Open Educational Resources (OER) have the potential to change the domain of higher education; however, adoption is still limited. As teachers are the pivotal actors to adopt OER, more insights are needed on their practices with OER and need of support. This exploratory study uses the OER Adoption Pyramid as a framework to analyse adoption of OER…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, Shared Resources and Services, Educational Technology
McGowan, Veronica – Open Learning, 2020
Evidence exists that American institutions of higher education are well-entrenched in the consideration of mechanisms for supporting the implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) and alternative textbooks. Literature reveals that developing and implementing OER is a significant undertaking in terms of time and human resources. This study…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Textbooks, Financial Support, Educational Finance
Ren, Xinyue – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
The paper aims to discuss the role of instructional designers (IDs) in supporting the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement in higher education. Due to the increasing cost of higher education, previous studies indicated the feasibility of adopting OER to lower students' educational expenses and to equalize their learning opportunities (Murphy…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Instructional Design, Higher Education, Adoption (Ideas)
Esquibel, Joseph; Rook, Deborah L.; LoRe, Sondra M.; Starnes, John H.; Miller, Jillian M.; Buntz, Jennifer G.; Hugo, Alys; Nieuwsma, Christianne B.; Seitz, Heather; Bissell, Ahrash; Gross, Louis; Kiser, Stacey; Lenhart, Suzanne; Mills, Michael A.; Neuhauser, Claudia; Corriette, Irene; Prescott, Sarah; Jenkins, Kristin P.; Karpakakunjaram, Vedham – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Mastery of quantitative skills is increasingly critical for student success in life sciences, but few curricula adequately incorporate quantitative skills. Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) is designed to address this need by building a grassroots consortium of community college faculty to (1) engage in interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, College Science, Community Colleges
Tillinghast, Beth – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2020
There is a growing trend in higher education to explore the various benefits of Open Educational Resources. This applies not only to the cost benefits, but also to potential pedagogical benefits as well. This study explores the process of developing and implementing an Open Educational Resource for an undergraduate course and experimenting with…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Implementation
Doan, Tomalee – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
Many observers find it baffling that faculty in higher education have been slow to adopt open educational resources (OER). The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a private foundation that makes grants to expand access to learning materials, defines OER as: Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been…
Descriptors: Resource Units, Shared Resources and Services, Instructional Materials, Technology Uses in Education
Baas, Marjon; Schuwer, Robert – Open Praxis, 2020
Extensive research has taken place over the years to examine the barriers of OER adoption, but little empirical studies has been undertaken to map the amount of OER reuse. The discussion around the actual use of OER, outside the context in which they were developed, remains ongoing. Previous studies have already shown that searching and evaluating…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Adoption (Ideas), Media Adaptation
Risquez, Angelica; McAvinia, Claire; Desmond, Yvonne; Bruen, Catherine; Ryan, Deirdre; Coughlan, Ann – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
This paper reports on the research findings from a national project examining the issues in creating, sharing, using, and reusing open educational resources (OER) in the context of the development of open education in Ireland. One important aspect of the research was to investigate the potential for using existing institutional research repository…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Open Education
Cardoso, Paula; Morgado, Lina; Teixeira, António – Open Praxis, 2019
In recent years, the Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) movements have been essential in creating opportunities in all scholarly activities, within the context of higher education. The main purpose of this research was to understand how perceptions and practices of faculty towards OER are related to their perceptions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Educational Resources, Access to Information, Higher Education
Villar-Onrubia, Daniel – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
This study looks at OpenCourseWare (OCW) in Spain, a country where most public universities have tried to promote that particular model of open educational resources (OER) provision among academics. Using three universities with varying levels of OCW activity as a case study, this article examines key drivers behind the implementation of OCW…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Educational Resources, Courseware, Higher Education
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