Introducing open educational resources typology to digital libraries

Mosharraf, Maedeh

doi:10.1080/02680513.2024.2362673

Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning

2024

DOI: 10.1080/02680513.2024.2362673

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Introducing open educational resources typology to digital libraries

Maedeh Mosharraf

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Finding Free OER Textbooks Online: Untangling the Web

Walters

2024

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Although Open Educational Resources (OERs) can help reduce costs and maximize access to instructional materials, academics face significant problems in identifying good OER textbooks. This can be traced, in part, to the low quality of many OER directories. This study evaluated more than 350 potentially relevant resources, identifying 95 multidisciplinary and 23 subject-limited OER directories that include a relatively high proportion of free textbooks rather than other OERs (syllabi, assessment materials, etc.). Comparative information is presented for each of the 118 directories, with special attention to those with high recall, high precision, explicit and meaningful selection criteria, and consistently good textbook quality. The results focus on the characteristics of the OER directories, the extent to which they support the discovery of textbooks, the particular directories that are likely to be most useful, and the ways in which the most useful directories are systematically different from the others. There are at least 24 high-quality OER directories, but three—the Open Textbook Library, the B.C. Open Collection, and LibreTexts Commons—are especially useful. By devoting more attention to directories such as these, we can overcome the greatest barrier to the adoption of OER textbooks—the difficulty of identifying titles that can replace conventional texts.

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Finding Free OER Textbooks Online: Untangling the Web

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Introducing open educational resources typology to digital libraries

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Finding Free OER Textbooks Online: Untangling the Web

Finding Free OER Textbooks Online: Untangling the Web

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