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The Impact of Open Education on Student Outcomes
An overview of which learner outcomes get tracked in open education, how they are measured, and why comparing results across courses and settings is so hard.
Learners and Teachers
Student Outcomes
What results are measured for learners and how solid the evidence is.
Embracing Open Education: A Key to Unlocking Student Potential
How choice of materials, pace and entry points can help learners pursue goals a fixed course may not allow, seen from the learner's side, with honest limits.
Open Education: A Key to Unlocking Student Success
What does student success mean beyond grades? A practical look at how learners and teachers can define success, choose measures and track progress honestly.
The Impact of Open Education on Student Outcomes and Achievement
A focused look at grades and test results in open education: how they are compared, what can distort them, and what they can and cannot tell you.
The Impact of Open Education on Student Outcomes and Success
Wider definitions of student success in open education, including progress, confidence and later opportunities, and why each is harder to measure than grades.
The Impact of Open Education on Student Outcomes: A Review of the Evidence
Which claims about open education and student outcomes have supporting data, which are only assumed, and what good evidence would need to show.
The Impact of Open Education on Student Outcomes: A Review of the Literature
A map of the published work on open education and student outcomes: the main themes, the kinds of studies involved, and the gaps researchers keep pointing to.
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Learners and Teachers What open education means for the people in the classroom. Teacher and Administrator Roles How educators and administrators change their work around open materials. Student Engagement and Motivation How involved and driven learners are when using open resources. Retention and Completion Why students stay, finish and succeed, and what costs have to do with it. Teacher Burnout and Well-being Workload and wellbeing for teachers who use shared materials. Teacher Professional Growth Training, development and collaboration for teachers. Personalized Open Learning Using open materials to build learning routes around the individual student. Civic and Thinking Skills Critical thinking, global citizenship, culture, lifelong learning and digital literacy gained through open study.