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Open Educational Resources

Suggestions on how and where to find educational resources for students that are freely available

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7 Things You Should Know About Open Educational Resources (2010)
By EDUCAUSE
Florida Student Textbook Survey (2016)
If you read one thing, this should be it.
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Answers questions such as
Question 1: How much do students spend on textbooks and other instructional materials?
Question 2: How many times do students buy textbooks that are not used?
Question 3: How are students affected by the cost of textbooks?
Question 4: What digital study aids do students perceive to be most beneficial to their grades?
Question 5: Compared to the results of the 2012 Student Textbook Survey, what are the differences in the money spent on textbooks?
Question 6: Compared to the results of the 2012 Student Textbook Survey, what are the differences in factors affected by cost of textbooks?
Question 7: Comparing university students and college students, what are the differences in the money spent on textbooks, money spent on course materials, costs covered by financial aid, and the number of textbooks purchased but never used.
Question 8: What are the differences in the money spent on textbooks for students in different degree levels?
Hilton III, J., Robinson, T., Wiley, D., & Ackerman, J. (2014). Cost-savings achieved in two semesters through the adoption of open educational resources. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 15(2). doi:http://dx.doi.org/
Rascoe, F. (2015, July 14). An Introduction to Open Educational Resources
Learn how Open Educational Resources (OERs) can make college textbooks free, as well as change the way students learn and engage with their curriculum.[Audio Story].
Report: Make Higher Education Affordable
U.S. PIRG Education Fund and the Student PIRGs (2014).
Watson, C., Domizi, D., & Clouser, S. (2017). Student and Faculty Perceptions of OpenStax in High Enrollment Courses. The International Review Of Research In Open And Distributed Learning, 18(5). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i5.2462
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Interactive Open Educational Resources by John D. Shank
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ISBN: 1118419677
Publication Date: 2013-12-13
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014! Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this one-of-a-kind book demonstrates the best tools, resources, and techniques for discovering, selecting, and integrating interactive open educational resources (OERs) into the teaching and learning process. The author examines many of the best repositories and digital library websites for finding high quality materials, explaining in depth the best practices for effectively searching these repositories and the various methods for evaluating, selecting, and integrating the resources into the instructor's curriculum and course assignments, as well as the institution's learning management system.
The Pedagogy of the Open Society by M. E. Mincu; Tze-Chang Liu; David J. Ondercin; Michael A. Peters
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ISBN: 9789460919671
Publication Date: 2013-02-11
Social processes and policies that foster openness as an overriding value as evidenced in the growth of open source, open access and open education and their convergences that characterize global knowledge communities that transcend borders of the nation-state. Openness seems also to suggest political transparency and the norms of open inquiry, indeed, even democracy itself as both the basis of the logic of inquiry and the dissemination of its results. Openness is a value and philosophy that also offers us a means for transforming our institutions and our practices. This book examines the interface between learning, pedagogy and economy in terms of the potential of open institutions to transform and revitalize education in the name of the public good.

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