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Download full textStracke, Christian M.; Sharma, Ramesh Chander; Bozkurt, Aras; Burgos, Daniel; Cassafieres, Cécile Swiatek; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; Mason, Jon; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Shon, Jin Gon; Wan, Marian; Agbu, Jane-Frances Obiageli; Farrow, Robert; Karakaya, Özlem; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Ramírez-Montoya, María Soledad; Conole, Grainne; Cox, Glenda; Truong, Vi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
In terms of scale, shock, and disenfranchisement, the disruption to formal education arising from COVID-19 has been unprecedented. Anecdotally, responses from teachers and educators around the world range from heightened caution to being inspired by distance education as the "new normal." Of all the challenges, face-to-face and formal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Open Education, Distance Education
McGreal, Rory; Mackintosh, Wayne; Cox, Glenda; Olcott, Don, Jr. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
This paper describes current trends and issues in implementing micro-credentials. The COVID-19 epidemic, combined with the increasing cost of higher education; employer concerns about graduate skills and competencies; increasing inequities in access; and student frustrations about lack of job opportunities have all been a catalyst for…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Open Educational Resources, Job Training, Employment Qualifications
Werth, Eric; Williams, Katherine – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Open pedagogy is growing in popularity as an instructional method to decentralize classroom power dynamics, engage students, and provide greater meaning to student work. To investigate the impact of open pedagogy on motivation, interviews were conducted with first-year college students at a four-year liberal arts college after completing a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Open Educational Resources, Open Education, Personal Autonomy
Truong, Vi; Denison, Tom; Stracke, Christian M. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
The introduction of open educational resources (OER) provides new opportunities for learners worldwide to access high-quality educational materials at the lowest cost. As a developing country, Vietnam is one of the countries that can most benefit from the OER movement. However, the concept of OER in Vietnam remains little known to the public, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Educational Resources, Archives, Electronic Libraries
Tang, Hengtao – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
Teachers in K-12 schools have shown an increasing desire for open educational resources (OER) to ensure all students can learn effectively. OER provide teachers with free access to open-licensed educational resources that they can retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute for personalized instruction. Open educational practices (OEP) have…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Experience, Open Educational Resources
Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2023
Extended reality (XR), which encompasses virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), offers powerful affordances for improving teaching and learning experiences in a post-pandemic world. Increasingly, many governments and institutions around the world are making major investments in XR technologies to prepare education…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education, Sustainable Development, Barriers
Anderson, Talea; Cuttler, Carrie – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
As open textbook initiatives are on the rise, a burgeoning literature has begun exploring student perceptions of openly licensed textbooks used in higher education. Most of this research has lacked consideration of potential differences in the perceptions of online and on-campus students and has failed to include a control group of students using…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Costs, Shared Resources and Services, Online Courses
A Scoping Review on Open Educational Resources to Support Interactions of Learners with Disabilities
Moon, Jewoong; Park, Yujin – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
This scoping review explored the trends in open educational resources (OER) that support the interactions of learners with disabilities and the challenges of supporting these interactions in such environments. Emerging OER and open educational practices allow learners to interact with digital learning resources in self-regulated learning. Since…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Interaction, Students with Disabilities, Learner Engagement
Lashley, Jonathan; Cummings-Sauls, Rebel; Bennett, Andrew B.; Lindshield, Brian L. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
This note from the field reviews the sustainability of an institution-wide program for adopting and adapting open and alternative educational resources (OAER) at Kansas State University (K-State). Developed in consult of open textbook initiatives at other institutions and modified around the needs and expectations of K-State students and faculty,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Shared Resources and Services, Public Colleges, College Faculty
Kwak, SuBeom – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
Since 2005, open educational resources (OER) have played a key role in K-12 education in South Korea; so far, however, there has been little discussion about OER efficacy in South Korean K-12 education. In the meantime, South Korean education has been attracting a lot of interest around the world. Former U.S. President Obama's comments about South…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Korean, Language Arts, Language Teachers
Barker, Jennifer; Jeffery, Ken; Jhangiani, Rajiv Sunil; Veletsianos, George – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Since the launch of the BC Open Textbook Project in 2012, the adoption of open textbooks has steadily grown within public post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. An analysis of adoption records over a five-year period reveals that open textbooks have been adopted across all types of institutions, including research universities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Shared Resources and Services, Textbooks, Higher Education
Chib, Arul; Wardoyo, Reidinar Juliane – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Information and communication technologies aid marginalized groups in seeking social support, building proximate networks, and improving employment opportunities. However, one key factor that is understudied in the literature is the impact of open education resources (OER) on the employability of marginalized groups. This study focuses on open and…
Descriptors: Females, Migrant Workers, Resource Units, Shared Resources and Services
Chrissy Spencer; Aakanksha Angra; Kata Dósa; Abigail Jones – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2025
The high cost of commercial textbooks in higher education creates barriers to equitable access to learning materials and negatively impacts student performance. Open educational resources (OER) offer a cost-effective alternative, but their impact on student learning remains a critical question. This study directly compared student outcomes between…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Textbooks, Undergraduate Students, Barriers
Otto, Daniel – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
The concept of open educational resources (OER) is becoming increasingly prominent in education. However, research circles around defining OER, content and forms of OER, technological features of OER, and the importance of the issue or lack thereof. Vital aspects such as the notion of the adoption of OER by educational practitioners remain…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Adoption (Ideas), Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
McGreal, Rory – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
Open Educational Resources (OER) and their offspring, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), are becoming important factors in achieving the "Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education" ("SDG4"). The OER movement is less than 15 years old and is growing rapidly as more and more nations and institutions adopt the view that…
Descriptors: Resource Units, Shared Resources and Services, Instructional Materials, Educational Technology
