In OER, Save equals more

 

Reading this week is very similar to reading last week. After reading a lot of research literature about OER, I have a feeling of saving equals more. OER helps students save money and also add more for the following:

  • More Students can register for more courses.
  • More Students not dropping out of courses.
  • More Students are likely to succeed in their studies.
  • Students have more access to learning materials.
  • Students have more ways to access learning materials.
  • Schools get more revenue.
Those are just some of the benefits I can remember, and I am sure OER has more to offer.

Another interesting thing this week is The Oer Adoption Impact Calculator. It represents some of the data that the OER will involve. When I tried to maximize the Number of Enrollments Using OER, I found that the students could save $2,340,000. This money can help an international student register for nearly 234 semesters of courses, and each semester is 3 courses. What an amazing figure it is.

Meanwhile, in the default case, we can also see that the Course Throughput Rate(CTR) of the students using OER is still 4.1% higher than that of the students who do not use OER. It seems that the use of OER in teaching can indeed improve the success rate of students in learning. I am not sure if this is the case in every school, but we can at least see that the use of OER has no negative impact on teaching and learning.

Watching! Here comes the readings!

Hendricks, C., Reinsberg, S., & Rieger, G. (2017). The Adoption of an Open Textbook in a Large Physics Course: An Analysis of Cost, Outcomes, Use, and Perceptions. The International Review Of Research In Open And Distributed Learning, 18(4). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3006

Grewe, K., & Davis, W.P. (2017). The Impact of Enrollment in an OER Course on Student Learning Outcomes. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18 (4).

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).

Jhangiani, R., Jhangiani, S. (2017). Investigating the perceptions, use, and impact of open textbooks: A survey of post-secondary students in British Columbia. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18 (4).

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