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Misra, Pradeep Kumar

Open Educational Resources (OER) are materials used to support education that may be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared by users. OER usually employ a range of media and other resources contained in digital ...

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Yan, Hongxin; Law, Sandra; Gil-Jaurena, Inés

Failure rates in first year calculus courses are high in most post-secondary institutions across North America and other parts of the world. This Inukshuk-funded open education project involved the development of five ...

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Straumsheim, Carl

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation becomes the most recent grant-making organization to require recipients to make findings publicly available, a further shift toward transparency in research funding.

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Outline of the document This document presents initial insights from a sectoral consultation process (April–May 2014). This process has been informed by national and international research and by recent and current ...

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Jones, Sherry

Current higher education conversations about Open Educational Resources revolve around faculty or administration resistance to OER adoption (Seaman and Seaman, 2017), but fewer conversations are devoted to scholar ...

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Misra, Pradeep; Gil-Jaurena, Inés

This is a critical phase for Open Educational Resources (OER) movement: on one side the number of OER is increasing rapidly, and on other side debates about quality of OER-based courseware are heating up. These debates ...

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Beaudry, Guylaine; Bjornson, Pam; Carroll, Michael; Couture, Carol; et al.

Since the 1950s debate has raged about the impact of new technologies on print culture in the broadest sense and on the publishing industry, libraries, and archives in particular. Succinctly put, “The Death of the ...

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Ainsworth, Breeman; Allen, Nicole; Dai, Jessica; Elder, Abbey; et al.

This collaboratively authored guide helps institutions navigate the uncharted waters of tagging course material as open educational resources (OER) or under a low-cost threshold by summarizing relevant state ...

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The Colorado Department of Higher Education

Key Findings Over the past year, CDHE and the OER Council have established a community of learning, practice and innovation. Key findings suggest a meaningful current impact and promising future. Most significantly: 1 ...

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Robinson, T J.; Fischer, L.; Wiley, David A.; Hilton, J.

Given the increasing costs associated with commercial textbooks and decreasing financial support of public schools, it is important to better understand the impacts of open educational resources on student outcomes. The ...

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