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Session Description:
How reliable or trustworthy can educational materials be when they’re free of charge? There must be a catch?
Spoiler alert—there’s not! This session will give attendees the knowledge needed to evaluate and, where appropriate, begin incorporating Open Educational Resources (OER) into their courses.
Sources Cited:
Seaman, Julia E. and Seaman, Jeff. (2018). Freeing the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2018. Babson Survey Research Group
Hilton, J. (2019). Open educational resources, student efficacy, and user perceptions: a synthesis of research published between 2015 and 2018. Educational Technology Research and Development, 1-24.
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.
How OpenStax books are made, OpenStax, 2018.
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