Research Guides: Open and Affordable Educational Resources: Recommended Readings

Why OER is important

The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in the Higher Education Environment Programs Case Studies and Examples
Highly informative source of OER intiatives and success stories of OER in higher education.

Online Communities for OER

OER Commons
OER Commons is a public digital library dedicated to the development of free web-based resources for academic professionals.

Numerous blogs, discussion forums, and sharing platforms exist for those interested in using, creating, or advocating for Open Educational Resources.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-01-04-as-campuses-move-to-embrace-oer-college-libraries-become-key-players

Open Courseware Consortium
A worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education.
WikiEducator
An evolving online community intended for the planning of education projects linked with the development of free content for free learning.
Adopting Open Textbooks workshop offered by BCcampus
This workshop, a MOOC, is aimed at faculty considering an open textbook adoption for their course. While the course finished on February 6, 2015 the contents of the course and the archive of the weekly webinars will remain open and archived on P2Pu.

OER Reports

OER Bibliography

Bliss, TJ, T. Jared Robinson, John Hilton, & David A. Wiley. (n.d.). An OER COUP: College Teacher and Student Perceptions of Open Educational Resources | Bliss | Journal of Interactive Media in Education. Retrieved November 7, 2013, from http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/article/2013-04/html

Devaney, L. (2014). Easy steps to OER creation. eSchool News. Available: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/10/16/easy-oer-creation-423/

Grodecka, K. & Śliwowski, K. (2014). Open educational resources mythbusting. Available: http://mythbusting.oerpolicy.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/OER_Mythbusting.pdf

Littlejohn, A., & Pegler, C. (2014). Reusing Open Resources: Learning in Open Networks for Work, Life and Education. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. http://umaryland.worldcat.org/oclc/884014781

Lumen Learning. (2014). About OER. Available: http://lumenlearning.com/about-oer/

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development., & Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. (2007). Giving knowledge for free: The emergence of open educational resources. Paris, France: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. http://umaryland.worldcat.org/oclc/144608345

Robinson, J., Fischer, L., Wiley, D., & Hilton, J. (2014). The Impact of Open Textbooks on Secondary Science Learning Outcomes.<http://edr.sagepub.com/content/43/7/341> Educational Researcher, 43(7).

Straumsheim, C. (2014). Open, but undiscovered. Inside Higher Ed. Available: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/04/open-educational-resources-perceived-high-quality-even-though-faculty-awareness-lags

Wiley, D. (Ed). (2014). An open education reader. PressBooks.com. Available: http://openedreader.org/

Wiley, D., Green, C., & Soares, L. (2012). Dramatically Bringing down the Cost of Education with OER: How Open Education Resources Unlock the Door to Free Learning. Center for American Progress. Available: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED535639.pdf