Open Educational Resources

Economic Benefits

Assessing the Savings from Open Educational Resources on Student Academic Goals (2017)

Saving Students Money (2017)

Data-Informed Open Education Advocacy: A New Approach to Saving Students Money and Backaches (2017)

The Adoption of an Open Textbook in a Large Physics Course: An Analysis of Cost, Outcomes, Use, and Perception (2017)

Learning Outcomes

OER courses can boost student engagement, new study shows (2018)

The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics (2018)

Open Educational Resources and College Textbook Choices: A Review of Research on Efficacy and Perceptions (2016)

Student Perceptions of OER

As Good or Better than Commercial Textbooks:Students’ Perceptions and Outcomes from Using Open Digital and Open Print Textbooks (2018)

Investigating the Perceptions, Use, and Impact of Open Textbooks: A Survey of Post-Secondary Students in British Columbia (2017)

Faculty Perceptions of OER

Higher Education Faculty Perceptions of Open Textbook Adoption (2017)

Mainstreaming Open Textbooks: Educator Perspectives on the Impact of OpenStax College Open Textbooks (2015)

OER & Social Justice

Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice (2022)

OER Bibliography (please feel free to make additional suggestions)