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MOOC teaching assistants’ global-engaged learning in the US and China
Li, Yue; Armstrong, Anne; Krasny, Marianne
How can we create a “global-at-home” learning experience for university students to engage them in serving global professional communities online? This study applied global engagement surveys alongside interviews ...
Posted December 6, 2024

Taming the Monster: How can Open Education Promote the Effective and Safe use of Generative AI in Education?
Tlili, Ahmed; Agyemang Adarkwah, Michael; Lo, Chung Kwan; Bozkurt, Aras; Burgos, Daniel; Bonk, Curtis J.; Costello, Eamon; Mishra, Sanjaya; Stracke, Christian M.; Huang, Ronghuai
The development, use, and timely promotion of Open Education (OE) has been effective in addressing myriad educational concerns, including inclusivity, accessibility and learning achievement, among many others. However, ...
Posted December 2, 2024

On a Path to Open
Jhangiani, Rajiv; Pakkal, Oya; Lachaîne, Catherine; Luke, Robert
This report shares results and recommendations from a study of the capacity of Ontario’s public post-secondary institutions to support open educational practices (OEP). The report begins with a brief overview of open ...
Posted November 12, 2024

Into the Open: Shared Stories of Open Educational Practices in Teacher Education
DeWaard, Helen
Navigating through the Faculty of Education as a teacher educator in Canada is complex and complicated. Research literature calls for an intentional focus on media and digital literacies, and technological competencies, ...
Posted November 11, 2024

Scaffolding-informed design of open educational resources in Chinese secondary school mathematics: insights from multi-cycle formative evaluation
Huang, Xiaowei; Lo, Chung Kwan; He, Jiaju; Xu, Simin; Kinshuk
In the post-pandemic world, open educational resources (OER) have the potential to ensure educational equity by providing all students with access to learning materials and by supporting teachers’ instructional ...
Posted November 2, 2024

The Impact of OER’s Continuous Improvement Cycles on Students’ Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis of the RISE Framework
Castellanos-Reyes, Daniela; Camargo Salamanca, Sandra Liliana; Wiley, David
Open educational resources (OER) have been praised for revolutionizing education. However, practitioners and instructors battle keeping OER updated and measuring their impact on students’ performance. Few studies have ...
Posted October 30, 2024

Are We Asking Too Much of OER? A Conversation on OER from OE Global 2023
Flinn, Chad; Openo, Jason
This paper examines the pervasive discourse of disruption in OER literature by recounting a facilitated conversation hosted at the 2023 Open Education Global conference held in Edmonton, Alberta. This dialogue used ...
Posted October 30, 2024

The Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook
Band, Jonathan; Gerafi, Jonathan
More than 40 countries with over one-third of the world’s population have fair use or fair dealing provisions in their copyright laws. These countries are in all regions of the world and at all levels of development. ...
Posted October 25, 2024

Teacher Education Lecturers' Views of Open Educational Resources: A Case of South African Universities
Setshedi, Justinus R.; Van Wyk, Micheal
Literature reflects that universities freely share their teaching materials as Open Educational Resources (OER). The major objective of this study was to investigate lecturers at faculties of education views of the ...
Posted October 18, 2024

Finding Free OER Textbooks Online: Untangling the Web
Walters, William H.
Although Open Educational Resources (OERs) can help reduce costs and maximize access to instructional materials, academics face significant problems in identifying good OER textbooks. This can be traced, in part, to the ...
Posted October 18, 2024