Conceptualisations of open educational practices (OEP) vary widely, ranging from those
centred primarily on the creation and use of open educational resources (OER) to broader …

Openness has been a feature of higher education for many decades, particularly through the
establishment of open universities, although there remain debates about what openness …

Research findings in recent years provide compelling evidence of the importance of
encouraging student control over the learning process as a whole. The socially based tools …

A significant movement in education concerns the use of open educational resources. By
'open'it is generally meant that the resource is available at no cost to others for adaptation …

The goal of this paper is to advance the understanding of the way university educators
currently adopt open educational practices (OEP) by analyzing the relation between the use …

The purpose of this survey study is to investigate faculty's perceptions of the main incentives,
barriers, and benefits to publishing their course materials for free within the open …

This research investigates the current awareness of, and participation in, the open content
movement at one UK institution for higher education. The open content movement and the …

This article describes a small-scale study that explored the relationship between the
pedagogical practices characterised as “open” and the existing model of undergraduate …

Abstracts Open Educational Resources (OERs) can be seen as social movement but are
also implemented as strategic measures in higher education institutions (HEIs). This chapter …

In the past decade, the educational scenario world over has significantly been impacted by
open access and open education movements. The philosophy of openness and sharing …