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OER bibliography

  • Ebner, M., Orr, D. & Schön, S. 2022, "OER Impact Assessment: A framework for higher education institutions and beyond. Approaches to assess the impact of Open Educational Resources", Open Education Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 296-309.Link
  • Cummings-Clay, D. 2020, "Impact of OER in teacher education", Open praxis, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 541-554.Link
  • Nusbaum, A.T. & Cuttler, C. 2020, "Hidden Impacts of OER: Effects of OER on Instructor Ratings and Course Selection", Frontiers in education (Lausanne), vol. 5.Link
  • Trust, T., Maloy, R.W. & Edwards, S. 2022, "College student engagement in OER design projects: Impacts on attitudes, motivation, and learning", Active learning in higher education, , pp. 146978742210814.Link
  • Ruipérez-Valiente, J.A., Martin, S., Reich, J. & Castro, M. 2020, "The unMOOCing process: Extending the impact of MOOC educational resources as OERs", Sustainability (Basel, Switzerland), vol. 12, no. 18, pp. 7346.Link
  • McBride, M. & Abramovich, S. 2022, "Crossing the boundaries through OER adoption: Considering open educational resources (OER) as boundary objects in higher education", Library & information science research, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 101154.Link
  • Magro, J. & Tabaei, S. 2020;2019;, "Results from a Psychology OER pilot program:faculty and student perceptions, cost savings, and academic outcomes", Open praxis, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 83-99.Link
  • Jenkins, J.J., Sánchez, L.A., Schraedley, M.A.K., Hannans, J., Navick, N. & Young, J. 2020, "Textbook broke: Textbook affordability as a social justice issue", Journal of interactive media in education : JiME, vol. 2020, no. 1, pp. 3.Link
  • Hollister, C.V. & Patton, J. 2021, "Faculty Perceptions of an OER Stipend Program", The new review of academic librarianship, vol. ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print, pp. 1-19.Link
  • Pulker, H. & Kukulska-Hulme, A. 2020, "Openness reexamined: teachers' practices with open educational resources in online language teaching", Distance education, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 216-229.Link
  • Lauseng, D.L., Howard, C., Scoulas, J.M. & Berry, A. 2021, "Assessing Online Library Guide Use and Open Educational Resource (OER) Potential: An Evidence-Based Decision-Making Approach", Journal of web librarianship, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 128-153.Link
  • Pulker, H. 2020, "Impact of reappropriation of open educational resources on distance and online language teaching", Distances et médiations des savoirs, vol. 31, no. 31.Link
  • Manju, M. & Bhatt, S. 2021, "Impact Of Open Educational Resources Among The Students And Research Scholars In Delhi", Library philosophy and practice, vol. 2021, pp. 1-19.Link
  • Baran, E. & AlZoubi, D. 2020, "Affordances, challenges, and impact of open pedagogy: examining students' voices", Distance education, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 230-244.Link
  • Griffiths, R., Mislevy, J. & Wang, S. 2022, "Encouraging impacts of an Open Education Resource Degree Initiative on college students’ progress to degree", Higher education, , pp. 1-18.Link
  • Smith, N.D., Grimaldi, P.J. & Basu Mallick, D. 2020, "Impact of Zero Cost Books Adoptions on Student Success at a Large, Urban Community College", Frontiers in education (Lausanne), vol. 5.Link
  • Sansom, R.L., Clinton-Lisell, V. & Fischer, L. 2021, "Let Students Choose: Examining the Impact of Open Educational Resources on Performance in General Chemistry", Journal of chemical education, vol. 98, no. 3, pp. 745-755.Link
  • Hilton, J. 2019;2020;, "Open educational resources, student efficacy, and user perceptions: a synthesis of research published between 2015 and 2018", Educational technology research and development, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 853-876.Link
  • Grewe, K. & Davis, W.P. 2017, "The Impact of Enrollment in an OER Course on Student Learning Outcomes", International review of research in open and distance learning, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 231-238.Link
  • Hilton, J. 2016, "Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research on efficacy and perceptions", Educational technology research and development, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 573-590.Link
  • Pitt, R. 2015, "Mainstreaming Open Textbooks: Educator Perspectives on the Impact of OpenStax College open textbooks", International review of research in open and distance learning, vol. 16, no. 4.Link
  • Lawrence, C.N. & Lester, J.A. 2018, "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adopting Open Educational Resources in an Introductory American Government Course", Journal of political science education, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 555-566.Link
  • Winitzky-Stephens, J.R. & Pickavance, J. 2017, "Open Educational Resources and Student Course Outcomes: A Multilevel Analysis", International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 35-49.Link
  • Perryman, L. & de los Arcos, B. 2016, "Women's empowerment through openness: OER, OEP and the sustainable development goals", Open praxis, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 163-180.Link
  • Kaatrakoski, H., Littlejohn, A. & Hood, N. 2016;2017;, "Learning challenges in higher education: an analysis of contradictions within Open Educational Practice", Higher education, vol. 74, no. 4, pp. 599-615.Link
  • Mishra, S. 2017, "Open educational resources: removing barriers from within", Distance education, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 369-380.Link
  • Watson, C.E., Domizi, D.P. & Clouser, S.A. 2017, "Student and Faculty Perceptions of OpenStax in High Enrollment Courses", International review of research in open and distance learning, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 287-304.Link
  • Hilton III, J.L., Fischer, L., Wiley, D. & William, L. 2016, "Maintaining Momentum Toward Graduation: OER and the Course Throughput Rate", International review of research in open and distance learning, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 18-27.Link
  • Wiley, D., Webb, A., Weston, S. & Tonks, D. 2017, "A Preliminary Exploration of the Relationships Between Student-Created OER, Sustainability, and Students' Success", International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 60-69.Link
  • Pounds, A. & Bostock, J. 2019, "Open educational resources (OER) in higher education courses in aquaculture and fisheries: opportunities, barriers, and future perspectives", Aquaculture international, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 695-710.Link
  • Hendricks, C., Reinsberg, S.A. & Rieger, G.W. 2017, "The Adoption of an Open Textbook in a Large Physics Course: An Analysis of Cost, Outcomes, Use, and Perceptions", International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 78-99.Link
  • Vojtech, G. & Grissett, J. 2017, "Student Perceptions of College Faculty Who Use OER", International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 155-171.Link
  • Lin, H. 2019, "Teaching and Learning Without a Textbook: Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Open Educational Resources", International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, vol. 20, no. 3.Link
  • Howard, V.J. 2019, "Open Educational Resources in Behavior Analysis", Behavior Analysis in Practice, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 839-853.Link
  • Menzli, L.J., Smirani, L.K., Boulahia, J.A. & Hadjouni, M. 2022, "Investigation of open educational resources adoption in higher education using Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory", Heliyon, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. e09885-e09885.Link
  • Baas, M., van der Rijst, R., Huizinga, T., van den Berg, E. & Admiraal, W. 2022, "Would you use them? A qualitative study on teachers' assessments of open educational resources in higher education", The Internet and higher education, vol. 54, pp. 100857.Link
  • Parker, D. 2022, "Learning Belongs in the Library - OER and Achieving Wide Faculty Adoption: Three Hurdles", Against the grain (Charleston, S.C.), vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 53.Link
  • Otto, D. 2021, "How to promote the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education. A parley with OER experienced teachers", Open praxis, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 354-364.Link
  • Rodes, V. & Gewerc, A. 2021, "A Latin American Critical Conceptual Model on the Adoption of Open Educational Resources", Journal of interactive media in education : JiME, vol. 2021, no. 1.Link
  • McGeary, B., Guder, C. & Ganeshan, A. 2021, "Opening up Educational Practices through Faculty, Librarian, and Student Collaboration in OER Creation: Moving from Labor-intensive to Supervisory Involvement", Partnership, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-27.Link
  • Benali, M., Boukare, M., Elouelji, S. & Blej, M. 2021, "Disposition des enseignants marocains à l’adoption des ressources éducatives libres : État des lieux et perspectives", EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, pp. 03010.Link
  • Dozier, V. 2021, "An Embedded Librarian’s Experience Piloting a Subject-Specific OER Initiative", Education libraries (Boston, MA), vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 1-16.Link
  • Eichelberger, A., & Ngo, H. (2020). Beyond the Basics: Adapting an Open Textbook to Accommodate a Flipped Class. IAFOR Journal of Education: Technology in Education, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ije.8.2.04
  • Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl and Brazil Arinto. Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South. African Books Collective, 2017. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/book/57816. 
  • Kaufman, Roy, and Andrew Campana. 2019. “OER: Lessons from the Field”. Insights 32 (1): 15. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.464
  • Rolfe, Vivien, and Beck Pitt. "Open textbooks - an untapped opportunity for universities, colleges and schools." Insights: The UKSG Journal, vol. 31, 2018. Gale Academic OneFile, link.
  • Wm. Joseph Thomas & Beth R. Bernhardt (2018) Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches, Technical Services Quarterly, 35:3, 257-268, DOI: https://doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/07317131.2018.1456844
  • Wiley, David; Williams, Linda; DeMarte, Daniel; Hilton, John. The Tidewater Z-Degree and the INTRO Model for Sustaining OER Adoption. Education Policy Analysis Archives, v24 n41 Mar 2016 https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1100170
  • http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/4472 Otto, D. (2019). Adoption and Diffusion of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Education: A Meta-Analysis of 25 OER-Projects. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 20(5), 122-140. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i5.4472
  • Anderson, T. & Leachman, C. (2019). Strategies for Supporting OER Adoption through Faculty and Instructor Use of a Federated Search Tool. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 7(General Issue), eP2279. https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2279
  • Sandra Avila & Christina C. Wray (2018) To Infinity and Beyond: Reducing Textbook Costs Through Librarian/Faculty Collaborations, Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 12:3-4, 90-100, DOI: 10.1080/1533290X.2018.1498618
  • Bane, T., Lucraft, M., Bailey, C., & Reich, T. (2019). Reports of conferences, institutes, and seminars. Serials Review, 45(3), 189-192. doi:10.1080/00987913.2019.1639592
  • M. de Jong, M. E. Munnik & N. U. Will (2019) Innovation Opportunities for Academic Libraries to Support Teaching Through Open Education: A Case Study at TU Delft, The Netherlands, New Review of Academic Librarianship, 25:2-4, 392-407, DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2019.1621185
  • Essmiller, K., Thompson, P., & Alvarado-Albertorio, F. (2020). Performance improvement technology for building a sustainable OER initiative in an academic library. Techtrends, 64(2), 265-274. doi:10.1007/s11528-019-00467-2 [Project reported that the effort to continue OER adoption was difficult to sustain]
  • George, K. W., & Casey, A. M. (2020). Collaboration between library, faculty, and instructional design to increase all open educational resources for curriculum development and delivery. The Reference Librarian, 61(2), 97-112. doi:10.1080/02763877.2020.1749753
  • Stacy Katz (2019) Leveraging Library Expertise in Support of Institutional Goals: A Case Study of an Open Educational Resources Initiative, New Review of Academic Librarianship, 25:2-4, 381-391, DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2019.1630655
  • Helen Murphy & Elizabeth Tilley (2019) Libraries Supporting Transition: Developing a Pre-Arrival Open Educational Resource (OER) for Taught Master’s Students, New Review of Academic Librarianship, 25:2-4, 271-294, DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2019.1622580
  • Ryder, E. F., Morgan, W. R., Sierk, M., Donovan, S. S., Robertson, S. D., Orndorf, H. C., . . . Tapprich, W. E. (2020). Incubators: Building community networks and developing open educational resources to integrate bioinformatics into life science education. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 48(4), 381-390. doi:10.1002/bmb.21387
  • Heather Seibert, Rachel Miles & Christina Geuther (2019) Navigating 21st-Century Digital Scholarship: Open Educational Resources (OERs), Creative Commons, Copyright, and Library Vendor Licenses, The Serials Librarian, 76:1-4, 103-109, DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2019.1589893
  • Kaufman, Roy, and Andrew Campana. 2019. “OER: Lessons from the Field”. Insights 32 (1): 15. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.464
  • Sutton, S. W., & Geuther, C. (2020). Open educational resources: Building collaborative bridges. The Serials Librarian, 78(1-4), 64-68. doi:10.1080/0361526X.2020.1697138
  • Magro, J., & Tabaei, S. V. (2020). Results from a psychology OER pilot program: Faculty and student perceptions, cost savings, and academic outcomes. Open Praxis, 12(1), 83-99. doi:10.5944/openpraxis.12.1.1007
  • Van Allen, J., & Katz, S. (2019). Developing open practices in teacher education: An example of integrating OER and developing renewable assignments. Open Praxis, 11(3), 311-319. doi:10.5944/openpraxis.11.3.972
  • Jason B. Reed & Benjamin Jahre (2019) Reviewing the Current State of Library Support for Open Educational Resources, Collection Management, 44:2-4, 232-243, DOI: 10.1080/01462679.2019.1588181
  • Risquez, A., McAvinia, C., Desmond, Y., Bruen, C., Ryan, D., & Coughlan, A. (2020). Towards a devolved model of management of OER? the case of the irish higher education sector. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 21(1), 100-112. doi:10.19173/irrodl.v20i5.4545