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Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Current Landscape
A plain map of the open educational resources field: who creates openly licensed materials, who uses them, and how funders, platforms and policy fit together.
Foundations and Future
Open Resource Landscape
Reviews of the state, research and business side of open educational resources.
Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Business Model
How people who give away educational materials still pay the bills: grants, memberships, print sales, services and institutional support, with the trade-offs of each.
Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Current State
How widely open educational resources are really used today, what adoption data can and cannot tell you, and the barriers that keep progress uneven.
Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Current State of the Field
OER as an area of study and practice: the main debates, unresolved questions and the kinds of people and groups shaping how the field develops.
Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Literature
How to read published research on open educational resources: what studies usually measure, common design weaknesses and where the evidence is still thin.
Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Pedagogical Frameworks
A comparison of the teaching theories often used to explain or guide open educational resources: constructivism, connectivism, UDL, open pedagogy and others.
Open Educational Resources: A Review of the Pedagogical Implications
What open educational resources change for teachers in practice: shifting roles, how planning works, what happens to assessment and the extra workload involved.
The Benefits of Open Educational Resources: A Study of their Effectiveness
How researchers test whether open educational resources work as well as conventional materials, and what the typical findings do and do not allow us to conclude.
The Rise of Open Educational Resources: A Game Changer
A short history of how open educational resources emerged from open licensing, early online course sharing and UNESCO policy, and how far they have changed education.
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Open Education Models What open education is and how its core ideas work. AI and Open Education How artificial intelligence meets open learning resources. Outcomes and Evidence How the effects of open education are studied and measured. Culture and Ethics The shared habits and moral questions around open learning. Open Scholarship Publishing, research and ownership in an open setting. The Open Education Movement What the movement is, where it came from and where it is heading. Open Research and Innovation Where open education meets open science, open research and open innovation. Platforms and Assessment The technology, platforms and evaluation methods behind open learning. Learning Approaches Teaching and study approaches that open resources make easier to try. Technology and Engagement Tools, games and design choices that shape online learning. Impact Reviews Literature reviews on attainment, policy and quality. Open Resources by Subject Subject by subject reviews of open educational resource collections. Open Tools and Standards Open-source software, open data, standards, badges and courses that support open education. The Power of Open Education The wider promise of open education for learners, classrooms, assessment and community.