1 | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | Link (if applicable) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | Donaldson, Nelson, Thomas | 2012 Florida Student Textbook Survey | Florida Virtual Campus | 2012 | copy in Articles & reports folder | ||
3 | Bliss, T.J. | A Model of Digital Textbook Quality from the Perspective of College Students | dissertation | http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4423&context=etd | |||
4 | Academic Content Licensing (bookstores) | National Association of College Stores | 2014 | see Articles & Reports for a copy | |||
5 | Hilton, Gaudet, Wiley, et.al. | Adoption of Open Educational Resources by One Community College Math Department | IRRODL | 2013 | Scottsdale Community College, AZ adopts OER for math curriculum from developmental thru pre-calculus in 3 years. Prints own textbooks. | ||
6 | Bliss,Robinson, Hilton, Wiley | An OER COUP: College Teacher and Student Perceptions of Open Educational Resources | JIME | 2013 | Teachers and students involved in a large-scale OER initiative at eight community colleges across the United States were given a detailed questionnaire aimed at uncovering their perceptions of the cost, outcomes, uses and perceptions of quality of the OER used in their courses | ||
7 | Senack, Ethan | Fixing the Broken Textbook Market: How Students Respond to High Textbook Costs and Demand Alternatives | US PIRG Education Fund | 2014 | see Arts & Reports folder for copy | ||
8 | Allen, I. Elaine and Jeff Seaman | Grade Level: Tracking Online Education in the United States | report (annual) | 2015 | p28-32 on OER & CC awareness by campus leaders & faculty; see copy in Articles & Reports folder for excerpt & full report | ||
9 | Eliot & Asso | Guidelines for Conducting a Focus Group | 2005 | Focus Group Guidelines | |||
10 | Bowen, et. al. | Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials. | Ithaka S+R | 2012 | The study compared the use of a traditional statistics textbook with Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative free statistics coure at six different institutions. | ||
11 | Medcalfe, Simon | Is There Such a Thing as a Free Textbook | Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research | 2013 | "once we control for the endogeneity of student choice there is no significant difference in grade between those students who buy a traditional textbook and those that access the material in a different manner" | ||
12 | PR Newswire | Nation's Largest Free and Low-Cost Textbook Showcase Launches at 13 California State University Libraries | 2015 | http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nations-largest-free-and-low-cost-textbook-showcase-launches-at-13-california-state-university-libraries-300034423.html | The Gary Michelson Twenty Million Minds Foundation OpenStax College | ||
13 | de Los Arcos, Farrow, Perryman, Pitt, Weller | OER Evidence Report 2013-14 | OER Research Hub, Open University | 2014 | Research designed to give answers to the overall question ‘What is the impact of OER on learning and teaching practices?’ and identify the particular influence of openness including K-12, College, University, Informal Learners worldwide. | ||
14 | Hilton, Laman | One-Colleges-Use-of-an-Open-Psychology-Textbook | Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning | 2012 | Psychology open textbook used at Houston Community College lowers costs and improves student retention | ||
15 | Lindshield, Adhikari | Online and campus college students like using an open educational resource instead of a traditional textbook | Journal of Online Learning and Teaching | 2013 | The creation of the Kansas State University Human Nutrition Flexbook, and online and campus students' perceptions and usage of the flexbook from multiple online and campus semesters are reported. | ||
16 | Petrides, Jimes, Middleton-Detzner, et. al. | Open textbook adoption and use: Implications for teachers and learners. | Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning | 2012 | The study examined the adoption and use patterns of teachers and learners as end users of open textbooks through interviews and surveys with 31 instructors and 45 students primarily at community colleges. | ||
17 | Fry, John | Open Textbook Initiative | American Institute of Mathematics | 1994 | The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) seeks to encourage the adoption of open source and open access mathematics textbooks. | ||
18 | Feldstein, Hilton, Wiley, et. al. | Open Textbooks and Increased Student Access and Outcomes | European Journal of Open, Distance, & Learning | 2012 | This study reports findings from a year-long pilot study during which 991 students in 9 core courses in the Virginia State University School of Business replaced traditional textbooks with openly licensed books and other digital content. | ||
19 | Allen, Seaman | Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education | Babson-Pearson | 2014 | Study funded by Pearson and Hewlett Foundation on faculty awareness and selection criteria for OER in higher ed. copy in Articles & reports folder | ||
20 | UCLA Library | Affordable Course Materials Initiative | http://www.library.ucla.edu/about/collections/collection-development-initiatives/affordable-course-materials-initiative | Faculty adoption initiative funded by UCLA Library, inlcuding application, initiative details, eligibility, and deadlines | |||
21 | David Wiley | OER Adoption Measuring Tool | Open Content, Lumen Learning | http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3791 | |||
22 | Donald A. Barclay | No Reservations: Why the Time Has Come to Kill Print Textbook Reserves | College and Research Libraries News | 2015 | http://crln.acrl.org/content/76/6/332.full | ||
23 | Tony Bates | Writing an online, open textbook: is it worth it? | blog post | 2015 | http://www.tonybates.ca/2015/06/10/writing-an-online-open-textbook-is-it-worth-it/ | extremely helpful in how to use PressBooks to write an open textbook | |
24 | John Hilton III | The Review Project | Open Education Group | 2015 |