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The Impact of Open Education on Higher Education Institutions
An overview of what colleges and universities may gain, risk and have to change when they adopt openness, from teaching materials to policy and culture.
Institutions and Work
Institutional Change and Reputation
How openness affects the culture, image and structure of colleges.
A New Era of Education: The Impact of Open Education on Higher Education
A historical look at how open licensing, open courseware and online access changed what students, staff and the public expect from colleges over recent decades.
Breaking Down Silos: The Impact of Open Education on Higher Education
How shared, openly licensed resources can nudge departments and disciplines to cooperate across boundaries, and why structure and incentives still limit the effect.
Open Educational Practices: A Framework for Institutional Change
What open educational practices are beyond using free resources, including open assessment and co-created courses, and how institutions tend to adopt them.
The Future of Learning: How Open Education is Transforming the Industry
How open resources have affected publishers, textbook markets and institutions, how each has adapted, and why predictions about the industry deserve caution.
The Impact of Open Education on Institutional Brand and Reputation
How publishing open teaching materials can shape the public image a school presents to students, staff and the wider community, and the risks of getting it wrong.
The Impact of Open Education on Institutional Change and Reform
The internal steps, sources of resistance and typical timelines when a college or university reorganizes its teaching, support and policy around openness.
The Impact of Open Education on Institutional Culture
How attitudes toward sharing, credit and collaboration inside a college tend to evolve as open practices spread, and what can stall that change.
The Impact of Open Education on Institutional Reputation
How rankings, peer regard and prestige may be affected when a college makes open publishing choices, and why the links are weaker and more complicated than they sound.
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