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A/B Testing on Open Textbooks

Open educational resources provide great promise to instructional designers…… textbooks in higher education, the Open textbook as a medium promises to be…Though systemic challenges to Open textbook adoption may be outside the realm…… continuous improvement cycles to Open educational resources is of increasing…… (UpGrade, n.d.). In the case of Open textbooks, A/B testing would require…… increase the perceived quality of Open textbooks. Relying upon data collection…… have influenced overall usage of Open resources, such a shift would not be…… online publishing platform for Open textbooks. Built with PHP, MySQL, and…… improvement and improved perceptions of Open textbook quality. Toward this…… separate chapters of a popular Open textbook:  The K-12 Educational Technology…… quality are a major barrier to Open textbook adoption and diffusion (Kimmons,…… special importance when studying Open resources, because most of the traffic…… into the realm of high-impact Open resources that we can adjust at low-cost,…… data collection on a popular Open textbook, all experiments came back as having…… optional self-report data to improve Open textbooks may not be a feasible…… Incorporating these suggestions into any Open textbook continuous improvement…… analytics to automatically identify Open educational resources for continuous…Dinevski, D. (2008). Open educational resources and lifelong learning. In ITI…… evaluations of copyright-restricted, Open, and Open/adapted textbooks. The…Kimmons, R. (2016). Expansive Openness in teacher practice. Teachers College…… members' lived experiences with Open educational resources. Open Praxis, 12(1),…Open Source Initiative. (n.d.). The Open source definition. http://Opensource.org/osdUpGrade. (n.d.). UpGrade: An Open source platform for A/B testing in education.…Wiley, D. (n.d.). Defining the "Open" in Open content and Open educational…… textbook evaluation: Comparing Open and restricted textbooks. The International…

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Assumptions and Challenges of Open Scholarship

Openness in a variety of educational and scholarly practices has gained wide…… scholars hope and anticipate that Open practices will broaden access to education…We view Open scholarship as a collection of emergent scholarly practices that…Next, we discuss what Open scholarship has come to look like and by laying…Discussions of Openness gained traction after Friedman (2005) argued that digital…… form in a variety of emergent Open practices amongst scholars, including (1)…… freely through online venues. Open access (OA) publishing has grown rapidly…Researchers have also found Open access to be financially prudent for universities…… planet,” forecasting that “[Open scholarship] researchers are likely to…The Open educational resources (OER) and Open teaching movements seek “to…… movement is the practice of creating Open courses that a number of faculty…Given these examples of Open scholarship, we should be able to recognize some…… capacity. Therefore, free and Open access to educational opportunity is a…… this ideological foundation, Openness and sharing in scholarship are seen…Second, Open scholarship emphasizes the importance of digital participation…Third, Open scholarship is treated as an emergent scholarly phenomenon that…Finally, Open scholarship is seen as a practical and effective means for achieving…… instructors’ digital, networked, and Open participation and practices have…… relative newness of the concept of Open scholarship and specialized social…… for a critical examination of Open scholarly practices, because the dominant…… explaining the challenges facing Openness and Open scholarship, it is important…… some core assumptions of the Open scholarship movement. While we believe that…… are essential components of the Open scholarship movement or are merely incidental…While Open scholarly practices may share some of these noble goals (e.g., providing…To illustrate further, massive Open online courses (MOOCs) were originally…… education, rather than the type of Open education initiatives suggested by…… whether current implementations of Open scholarship and Open education (e.g.,…… order to take full advantage of Open scholarship. For example, scholars need…… al., 2006). In the context of Open scholarship, the participation gap may…… such as participatory cultures, Open access publishing, information management,…… quick access to a wide array of Open resources, the presentation of such resources…Though Open scholarship may offer some clear benefits to improve scholarly…… enable scholars to engage in Open scholarship, it does not necessarily follow…Thus, in the case of Open scholarship, issues surrounding the provision of…… number of assumptions of the Open scholarship movement and highlighted challenges…Challenges facing Open scholarship are associated with each one of these assumptions.…… that digital technologies and Open source initiatives have contributed to…… Hammond, A. (2007). A review of the Open educational resources (OER) movement:…Bonk, C. J. (2009). The world is Open: How Web technology is revolutionizing…… (2004). Comparing the impact of Open access (OA) vs. non-OA articles in the…Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002). Retrieved from https://edtechbooks.org/-cbSBurton, G. (2009). The Open scholar. Academic Evolution blog. Retrieved from https://edtechbooks.org/-meG… Schmidt, J. (May, 2012). The massive Open online professor. Academic Matters.…… Jensen, M., & Wiley, D. (2008). Open content and Open educational resources:…… the digital sge: The role of Open access institutional repository. Canadian Journal…… personal learning networks for Open and social learning. In Veletsianos G.…… Pringle, J., & Amin, M. (2007). Do Open access articles have greater citation…Davis, P. (2006, March). Do Open-access articles really have a greater research…Evans, J. A., & Reimer, J. (2009). Open access and global participation in…… (2006). Citation advantage of Open access articles. PLoS Biol, 4(5), e157.… technological dimension of a massive Open online course: The case of the CCK08…Furlough, M. (2010). Open access, education research, and discovery. The Teachers…… (2010). Self-selected or mandated, Open access increases citation impact for…… Towards a framework for co-creating Open scholarship. Proceedings of the…Getz, M. (2005). Open scholarship and research universities (Working Paper…Geser, G. (2012). Open educational practices and resources: OLCOS Roadmap…… cross-disciplinary comparison of the growth of Open access and how it increases…… (2012). Survey on governments’ Open educational resources (OER) policies (Report…… self-directed learning in an Open networked learning environment. International Journal…Kuchma, I. (2008). Open access, equity, and strong economy in developing and…… research. In N. Jacobs (Ed.), Open access: Key strategic, technical and economic…… T. (2011). The development of Open access journal publishing from 1993 to…Lewis, S. P. (2006). Open access articles have a greater research impact than…… H. F. (2006). The effect of “Open Access” upon citation impact: An analysis…Munoz, C., & Towner, T. (2009). Opening Facebook: How to use Facebook in the…… (2008). The citation advantage of Open-access articles. Journal of the American…… knowledge for free: The emergence of Open educational resources. Retrieved…… distinct course formats for massive Open online courses. European Journal…… (2002). Forum on the impact of Open courseware for higher education in developing…… techno-cultural pressures toward Open and digital scholarship in online networks. Computers…… International Review Of Research In Open And Distance Learning, 13(1), 144-166.… D. (2003). A modest history of OpenCourseWare. Autounfocus blog. Retrieved…Wiley, D. (2006). Open source, Openness, and higher education. Innovate 3(1).…Wiley, D. (2010). Open education. In M. K. Barbour & M. Orey (Eds.), The foundations…… D., & Hilton III, J. (2009). Openness, dynamic specialization, and the disaggregated…… and learning impacts of using Open textbooks in middle and high school science…Wiley, D., & Green, C. (2012). Why Openness in education? In D. Oblinger (Ed.), Game…Assumptions and Challenges of Open ScholarshipWhat Does Open Scholarship Currently Look Like?… Do these Practices Say about Open Scholarship?Challenges of Openness and Open ScholarshipOpen Access Journals and Institutional RepositoriesOpen Educational Resources, Open Teaching, and Open Courses

A Case for OER in SFL 223

A Look at the Future of Open Educational Resources

… high-profile examples such as MIT’s OpenCourseWare.… come together in the form of ‘Open educational resources’ (OER). The idea…… publishers create and distribute Openly licensed static content is drawing…… technologies—cloud technologies, Open data, artificial intelligence, and…… technologies in order to support Open educational resources.… depicts a web-based article about Open educational resources. On the screen,…This changes the dynamics of Open publishing and Open educational resource…Open Data is an umbrella term describing Openly-licensed, interoperable,…… working within the future as Open educational resources will not simply be…Open Data… are beginning to think about Open data as a new type of Open learning resource.For…… outcomes in mind. However, when Open data are made available through an application…… These computer programs can use Open data such as the data that we just looked…Open AI and Open artificial intelligence algorithms are already becoming available…What is relevant to Open education is that the services offered by these programs…… need in the creation and use of Open educational resources. It reduces the…… and community-based creation of Open educational resources. For example, Cognii…… in this way, it is permanently Open. It is permanently Open because there…… speculation about the future of Open educational resources.First, the creation and the use of Open educational resources will merge. In…However, new models of Open educational resources will be more like tools that…… development of the Creative Commons Open educational strategies that is being…… common ‘pattern language’ of Open access algorithms and tools; proprietary…… with the use of next-generation Open educational resources. Developers are…… rather the contents coming from Open data, and this data might be anything…… In the early years of the web Open educational resources were really difficult…… involves be- ing able to work in the Open, or as it is sometimes called, ‘Open… alongside them in a cooperative Open working environment.… understanding of the concept of the ‘Open educational resource’ changes…… Havemann, L. (Eds.). (2015). Open Data as Open Educational Resources: Case…White, A. & Pryor, G. (2011). Open Science in Practice: Researcher Per- spectives…

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