OpenStax Available Lessons – New Literacies Alliance Reading Scientific Research Opens in a new windowAcademic research articles have a structure and language that is different from our other reading materials such as textbooks. This lesson can help students new to academic research understand these differences and learn strategies for finding information in such articles. Opens in a new windowThis lesson is also available in the Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online project database. Mapped to ACRL FrameworkOpens in a new window Searching as Strategic Exploration, knowledge practice 8Opens in a new window Lesson created by Alice Anderson, Ashley Stark, Prasanna Vaduvathiriyan, Rachel Vukas, and Robyn Hartman in 2018. Citations Opens in a new windowCitations are more than just a formality that protects against plagiarism. Lesson created by Robyn Hartman, Julie Hartwell, Geoffrey Iverson, Eric Kowalik, Kendall Roemer, and Matt Upson in 2016. Scholarly Conversations Question Authority Value of Information
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Community of Online Research Assignments | an open access resource for faculty and librarians myPhysicsLab Home Page Open Educational Resources: Breaking the Lockbox on Education The Hewlett Foundation’s Education Program published a new white paper on Open Educational Resources last week: The idea behind Open Educational Resources (OER) is simple but powerful—educational materials made freely and legally available on the Internet for anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute. These digital materials have the potential to give people everywhere equal access to our collective knowledge and provide many more people around the world with access to quality education by making lectures, books and curricula widely available on the Internet for little or no cost. By enabling virtually anyone to tap into, translate and tailor educational materials previously reserved only for students at elite universities, OER has the potential to jump start careers and economic development in communities that lag behind. A research report that informed the white paper is also available.
Frontiers | Hidden Impacts of OER: Effects of OER on Instructor Ratings and Course Selection | Education Introduction The rapid rise in textbook costs in the United States (US Public Interest Research Group, 2014) has motivated a drive to increase the use of open educational resources (OER), which are freely available and have liberal copyright licenses which allow for modification of content (i.e., editing, remixing). There has been a related push to conduct research on OER to ensure that educators are not trading the burden of high textbook costs for a subpar learning experience. Survey research using the COUP framework has further indicated that nearly half of students self-reported that they have not registered for a specific class because of the costs of the associated textbook (Florida Virtual Campus, 2016) and ~16% indicated they had dropped or withdrawn from at least one course because the textbook was too expensive (Hendricks et al., 2017; Jhangiani and Jhangiani, 2017). Study 1 Methods Participants Table 1. Procedure and Materials Table 2. Data Analysis Results Study 2 Figure 1. Funding
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