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    A/B Testing on Open Textbooks

    … textbooks are of relatively poor Quality when compared to their copyright-restricted…… difference is to help improve the Quality of these resources. Some initial work…… improvement and increase the perceived Quality of open textbooks. Relying upon…… accessibility, usability, and Quality, providing authors with tools to easily…… perceptions of open textbook Quality. Toward this end, the system provides A/B…… decisions for improving perceived Quality would not vary by reader category.Because perceptions of poor Quality are a major barrier to open textbook adoption…… who anonymously answered the Quality assurance measure at the end of the chapter,…… Amazon or Yelp to determine the Quality of products or services, even if the…… at the end of every chapter, Quality assurance surveys provided results to authors…Screenshot of a Chapter Quality Display for a ChapterTo improve perceived Quality of the targeted chapters, format- and content-based…… changes that resulted in small Quality differences, then as these changes were…… perceived open textbook chapter Quality. It is no secret that educational research…… mildly influence overall chapter Quality perceptions, let alone aggregate effects.… experimental flight readers answered the Quality survey, which means that even…… photos is predicted to reduce user Quality perceptions of your chapters by 11.5%”).… relying on self-report data like Quality ratings may still have a place (especially…… hoc bivariate correlation of Quality measures, predicted reads, and textual complexity…… usefulness, usability, and perceived Quality of open resources.Kimmons, R. (2015). OER Quality and adaptation in K-12: Comparing teacher evaluations…

    Adopting Open Textbooks

    … training on how to choose high Quality material. 

    Assumptions and Challenges of Open Scholarship

    … “to provide open access to high Quality digital educational material” (Caswell,…… democratization, fundamental human rights, eQuality, and justice. As the Budapest…… who value ideals of democracy, eQuality, human rights, and justice.… democratization, human rights, eQuality, and justice, it is presently unclear…… the ideals of democratization, eQuality, and justice or whether organizations…… increases citation impact for higher Quality research. Plos One, 5(10), e13636.… Democratization, Human Rights, EQuality, and Justice

    Continuous Improvement of Instructional Materials

    … most important measure of the Quality of instructional materials is the degree…

    Continuous Improvement Dashboards

    … educational content creators about the Quality and performance of educational…… and content creators can improve the Quality of their content. Rather than attributing…… findability, (2) outcomes, (3) content Quality, and (4) user satisfaction (Desrosiers,…… about SNAP benefits had a Content Quality score of 2, the content creator could…… or completed? How do students rate the Quality of the resource? Put simply,…… point in time (e.g., current Quality rating of an educational video) whereas…… collect and report data about the Quality and performance of their content, content…

    A Brief Overview of Open Education

    … does not magically change the Quality or effectiveness of the book. However,…… use the materials without cost. Quality is another benefit of OER. Open materials…… take practical steps, emphasize Quality and pedagogy, promote equity, and ground…

    Lessons Learned

    … some similar content I found the Quality of open really varies.  Particularly…Because Quality varied, I came to realize just how important remixing is.  Lesser…

    Observations and Learnings About OER

    … leverage OER to address completion, Quality, and affordability challenges, especially…

    Pragmatism vs. Idealism and the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy

    … the intention of improving its Quality, relevance or currency. (pp. 84-85)… their free use, reliability and Quality. (p. 85)

    Open educational resources and college textbook choices

    … in the instances in which high-Quality Open Educational Resources (OER) are available…… that investigate the perceived Quality of OER textbooks and their efficacy in…… are available to locate high-Quality open textbooks, a subset of OER often used…… have proven efficacy and trusted Quality (Allen and Seaman 2014). The purpose…… and/or student perceptions of OER Quality, or educational outcomes. Fourth, the…… comments do you have regarding the Quality of the open materials used in your…… overall satisfaction with the Quality of the OER. An additional 17 % stated…… blogs featuring OER were of equal Quality to the blogs that did not feature OER,…… 56 % said they were the same Quality; 41 % said they were better than typical…… the OER textbooks had the same Quality as traditional textbooks and nearly 40 %…… had about the same “trusted Quality” as traditional resources, 26.3 % said…… of methods used, and the uneven Quality of the studies” (p. 3). If such heavily…… resources had a higher “trusted Quality” than OER (however nearly two-thirds…… bias their perception of the Quality of the resources.… find that OER are comparable in Quality to traditional learning resources, and…… commercial textbooks when high-Quality, free and openly-licensed textbooks are…… Thanos, K. (2013a). The cost and Quality of open textbooks: Perceptions of community…… curricular effectiveness: Judging the Quality of K-12 mathematics evaluations.…