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Prof. Rory McGreal from Athabasca University in Canada maintains the OER Knowledgecloud with publications about open education. The most recent additions are listed:

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  • Open Educational Resources und Open Educational Practices – ein systematischer Literaturbericht im religionspädagogischen Horizont July 18, 2025
    Open Educational Resources (OER) und Open Educational Practices (OEP) haben sich als zentrale Elemente der strategischen Entwicklung digitaler Bildungspraktiken etabliert, bleiben jedoch in der religionspädagogischen Forschung bislang weitgehend unbeachtet. Der vorliegende systematische Literaturbericht untersucht die empirische Evidenz zu OER/OEP hinsichtlich Bildungsgerechtigkeit, Inklusion und Qualität sowie deren Wechselwirkung, insbesondere im Hochschulkontext. Methodisch folgt die Analyse den...
  • Open Educational Resources Research Database July 13, 2025
    The OER Research Database provides a free and easily accessible venue for instructors, administrators, students, policy-makers, and other stakeholders to locate research and formal literature on the use of open educational resources and practices.
  • Open Syllabus July 13, 2025
    Open Syllabus is a non-profit research organization that collects and analyzes millions of syllabi to support novel teaching and learning applications. We help instructors develop classes, libraries manage collections, and presses develop books. We support students and lifelong learners in their exploration of topics and fields. We help faculty understand the impact of their work […]
  • Disparities in open educational resources: promoting equity in online learning for higher education July 13, 2025
    This study focuses on the role that higher education institutions play in addressing these disparities, with the aim of improving academic achievement and reducing educational inequities among under-represented students. The guiding question for this study is: how can higher education institutions leverage Open Educational Resources (OERs) to ensure equitable access and usage among diverse student […]
  • Open Future Annual Report 2024 July 10, 2025
    Open Future’s Annual Report 2024 covers our activities from January 1 to December 31, 2024—our fourth full year of operation and the final year of our four-year grant from Arcadia Fund. We are making this report–originally produced for our funders as part of our regular reporting–publicly available as part of our commitment to openness and […]
  • Open Educational Resources for Computational Thinking: Digital Escape Room June 20, 2025
    Computational thinking (CT) is an indispensable higher-order competency in our complex, digitalized era; its development in students can be an effective tool for societal problem-solving. This research aimed to use an escape room to develop students’ computational thinking using challenges oriented toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 of the UN Agenda 2030. The escape room […]
  • Faculty Perceptions and Use of Open Educational Resources in Postsecondary STEM Classrooms June 18, 2025
    This study examined how faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) or STEM-related fields perceive and utilize open educational resources (OER) in their classrooms and how faculty characteristics (e.g., age, teaching experience, OER experience) influence their adoption. A quantitative survey was administered to 48 STEM faculty across 8 colleges at a large, southeastern university. […]
  • Cosmopolitics and The Commons June 18, 2025
    Who is open education for, and where might it ultimately lead us? This paper examines social and political dimensions of open education with a focus on the concept of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitics.  After providing an outline of open education, I proceed by critically examining the commonly held policy position that ‘publicly funded should mean openly […]
  • MOOC usage: A Review and Prospect June 9, 2025
    The purpose of this research is to investigate the combined impact of main components of massive open online courses (MOOCs), such as MOOC kinds, instructional design, and learner-related characteristics, on actual MOOC usage, which has never been looked into before. The technology acceptance model (TAM) of learning is used to determine this influence. Literature from […]
  • Accessible Open Educational Resources Adoption Considerations June 9, 2025
    This resource was created based on discussions and engagement with faculty, instructors, graduate students, and research assistants at Brock University in Fall/Winter term of 2024. It is meant to provide guidance to support instructors who may be thinking of using open educational resources (OER) in their classrooms, but want to support inclusive adoption of these […]