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What Are the Benefits of Open Textbooks in the Global South?


What Are the Benefits of Open Textbooks in the Global South?

The principal advantages of an open textbook are its accessibility and affordability to the students, as long as they have a digital device, or have access to ...

Open access and the Global South: the barriers, the benefits, and ...

The high cost of hard copy books often makes them inaccessible to many potential readers in the region. Offering an open access option ensures ...

Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South - OAPEN Library

The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project seeks to build on and contribute to the body of research on how OER can help to ...

Q. What are the benefits of using Open Educational Resources?

Unlike affordability initiatives like course reserves, OER are free for anyone in the world to access, whether they have a college affiliation ...

Open Textbooks: A Balance Between Empowerment and Disruption

This study shows how teachers may enact agency by aligning the open textbooks with their instructional needs and involving students and peers in ...

Special Report on the Role of Open Educational Resources ... - ERIC

schools, and South Africa with Siyavula's open textbooks for primary and secondary schools). ... A most serious challenge for the global South, and in underserved ...

Can we save our students' rands and cents? Exploring the use Open ...

Open educational resources (OER) have gained traction in many parts of the world, through their expression as open textbooks. South Africa is no ...

Empowering digital learning with open textbooks - PMC

In the article, Hilton synthesized the results of 16 studies, and proposed a statement that the decision to employ and adopt open textbooks in ...

Twenty years of Open Educational Resources: Building robust ...

It has shifted from an early focus on freely available, high-quality learning materials that can be downloaded, edited, and shared, to now ...

Open Textbooks as an innovation route for open science pedagogy

Source: Allen, 2018. The strategic advantage of open textbooks as a route to OER adoption is that a textbook is a familiar artefact which can be ...

Open educational resources as the panacea for the decolonisation ...

Higher education institutions have been following the global trend of advocating open educational resources (OER) for tuition and learning. In the South ...

Opportunities and Challenges of Open Educational Resources for ...

Open. Book Publishers. Laurillard, D., & Kennedy, E. (2017). The potential of MOOCs for learning at scale in the Global. South ...

Moocs and Open Education in the Global South - PublicationShare

The collection of chapters in this book attempts to answer critical questions, such as these, with first-hand accounts of MOOC and OER research, ...

Moocs and Open Education in the Global South - Amazon S3

This book is dedicated to Fred Mulder, Emeritus Professor and Rector of the. Open University of the Netherlands as well as the first UNESCO chair on. Open ...

Open Educational Resources: Pros and Cons - UMGC Library

Pros and Cons of Using OERs for Instruction · expanded access to learning. Students anywhere in the world can access OERs at any time, and they ...

A Graduate Student's Guide to Open Education and Scholarship

This encourages aging learners and students in the Global South to explore educational content without having to commit the time and money they might not have ...

(PDF) Open Educational Resources and Practices in the Global South

Understanding how OER, OEP and Open Education more generally, can help to achieve social inclusion is particularly critical in the Global South where increased ...

Sharing the benefits of open educational resources with everyone

Clearly, open resources increase students' access to knowledge, just as the recipients of that first grant at MIT hoped they would, but there is ...

MOOCs and OER in the Global South: Problems and Potential

With further research into Southern learner and educator experiences, MOOCs and OER could create more learning opportunities which harness the ...

2. Benefits of OER - Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL)

Textbooks by established experts often fail to incorporate knowledge and experiences from minority and underrepresented groups. However, OER with more open ...