The OER Knowledge Cloud
- Uncovering the black box effect of Open Educational Resources (OER) and practices (OEP): a meta-analysis and meta-synthesis from the perspective of activity theory April 14, 2025Conflicting results exist in the literature on whether Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) can improve learning performance. Additionally, limited studies, in this context, have attempted to systematically measure and understand this phenomenon. To address this research gap, this study conducts a two-level analysis based on a systematic review of the OER […]
- Open educational resources and open pedagogy in Lebanon and South Africa April 8, 2025This book explores open educational resources (OERs) and open pedagogy within the broader open education movement, with a focus on Lebanon and South Africa. OERs are defined by UNESCO (2019) as teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely accessible and adaptable, promoting no-cost reuse and redistribution. Open pedagogy involves teaching and learning techniques enabled […]
- Facilitating OER Adoption in African Teacher Education Institutions for Sustainable Engagement April 4, 2025The adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) holds significant potential for improving access to quality educational materials in African teacher education institutions, thereby contributing to sustainable educational engagement. This mixed-methods study explores the factors influencing OER adoption and strategies to facilitate its sustainable implementation. Guided by the Diffusion of Innovations Theory, the research examines how […]
- Academic Outcome Differences Between Community College Students Using Commercial Textbooks and Open Educational Resources March 24, 2025The purpose of this quantitative ex post facto comparative study was to assess the differences in final course grades between students enrolled in courses taught at a rural southwestern U.S. community college using commercial textbooks (CT) and those in courses using Open Educational Resources (OER) for all students, Hispanic students, and first-generation students, when controlling […]
- Elementary STEM Teachers' Open Educational Resources and TPACK in a Professional Learning Network: A Case Study March 2, 2025There has been growing attention on investigating elementary STEM teachers' Professional Learning Networks (PLNs). However, what types of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) elementary STEM teachers share in their PLNs are still under-examined. This case study aims to explore elementary STEM teachers' use of OER, types of TPACK, and […]
- Creative Commons response to the UK Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence March 1, 2025Creative Commons is pleased to respond to the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s open consultation on “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence.” In our comments, we explain our overall approach to creativity, copyright, text and data mining (TDM), and artificial intelligence (AI), and then […]
- Judicious AI Use to Improve Existing OER March 1, 2025As the practical value and ethics of using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education receive focused attention, open educational resources (OER) provide a mechanism toward an AI future that is more bright and hopeful than the current trajectory. The ecological argument against AI is strong, as training and running complex models requires high levels of […]
- Bibliometric Insights Into the Open Education Landscape March 1, 2025This bibliometric analysis explores the rapidly growing field of open education, offering insight into its nature and the wide range of academic topics it covers. This study applies co-citation and co-word analyses approach to critically review 402 publications from the Web of Science database. The aim is to identify emerging topics, seminal works, and dominant […]
- Open Textbooks at St. Cloud University: A Collective Case Study February 15, 2025This starred paper offers a review of existing literature about open educational resources (OER), describes the methodology selected to research OER use at St. Cloud State University, outlines the results of a qualitative collective case study, and offers recommendations for the future.
- Analyzing the discourse on open educational resources on Twitter: a sentiment analysis approach February 15, 2025This study investigated the sentiment of Twitter discourse on Open Educational Resources (OER). We collected 124,126 tweets containing hashtags related to OER posted from January 2017 to December 2021. We performed fine-grained sentiment analysis using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) to categorize tweets into five sentiment classes: strongly negative, weakly negative, neutral, weakly positive […]