Schilling, K. (2023). Beyond the horizon: Broadening our understanding of OER efficacy. Rebus Community.
Watson, C. E., & Rush-Marlowe, R. (2023). Making the case for Open Educational Resources. AAC&U.
Baran, E., & AlZoubi, D. (2019, March). Bringing open pedagogy to practice in a blended graduate course: Affordances and challenges. In Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 386-390). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Clinton, V., & Khan, S. (2019). Efficacy of open textbook adoption on learning performance and course withdrawal rates: A meta-analysis. AERA Open, 5(3), 2332858419872212. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858419872212
Clinton, V., Legerski, E., & Rhodes, B. (2019). Comparing student learning from and perceptions of open and commercial textbook excerpts: A randomized experiment. Frontiers in Education, 110(4). https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00110
Colvard, N. B., Watson, C. E. & Park, H. (2018) The impact of Open Educational Resources on various student success metrics. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 30(2), 262-276. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1184998.pdf
Cuttler, C. (2018). Students' use and perceptions of the relevance and quality of open textbooks compared to traditional textbooks in online and traditional classroom environments. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/1475725718811300
Delgado, H., Delgado, M., & Hilton, J. (2019). On the efficacy of open educational resources: Parametric and nonparametric analyses of a university calculus class. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i1.3892
Griffiths, R., Mislevy, J., Wang, S., Ball, A., Shear, L., & Desrochers, D. (2020). OER at scale: The academic and economic outcomes of Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.
Jenkins, J. J., Sánchez, L. A., Schraedley, M. A., Hannans, J., Navick, N., & Young, J. (2020). Textbook broke: Textbook affordability as a social justice issue. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 1(3), 1–13. https://jime.open.ac.uk/ articles/10.5334/jime.549/
Kimmel, S., Bol, L., Ryan, D., & Esqueda, M. (2022). The experiences of community college faculty using open educational resources versus publisher textbooks. Community College Journal of Research and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2022.2107118
Marsh, C. C., Marsh, J. J., & Chesnutt, K. (2022). Exploring OER as a mediator for equity gaps in student course success rates for introductory Biology courses in the NCCCS. NCCCJTI, 1(1), 6-17.
https://www.ncccfa.org/_files/ugd/40c3b6_3309827827f24f9a9d14574282b848aa.pdf
Nusbaum, A. T. (2020). Who gets to wield academic Mjolnir?: On worthiness, knowledge curation, and using the power of the people to diversify OER. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.559
Ross, H. M., Hendricks, C., & Mowat, V. (2018). Open textbooks in an introductory Sociology course in Canada: Student views and completion rates. Open Praxis, 10(4), 393-403. https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.10.4.892
Sánchez Vera, F., Tellez Infantes, A., Martínez Guirao, J. E., & Antón Hurtado, F. (2021). Development of the pre-professional identity of vocational students during their training through a program based on OER-enabled pedagogy and an online community of practice. Sustainability, 14(1), 356. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010356
For additional scholarly publications relating to OER, particularly OER efficacy (often as measured by cost, outcomes, usage, and/or perceptions), see the list compiled by the Open Education Group.
