Open Educational Resource Adoption in Higher Education: A Review of Cost, Quality and Faculty Time

Authors

  • Birgit-Kadri Mihkelson Centre for Open Education, Laane-Viru Institute of Learning Technologies, Rakvere, Estonia Author
  • Fryderyk Fularski Centre for Higher Education Studies, Ziemia Sieradzka Centre for Digital Education, Zdunska Wola, Poland Author
  • Jaana Friman Department of Education Economics, Pohjois-Satakunta Institute of Learning Technologies, Kankaanpaa, Finland Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22695086

Keywords:

Open Educational Resource Adoption in Higher Education; Educational technology; E-learning; Evidence synthesis; Research methodology

Abstract

Open Educational Resource Adoption in Higher Education has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a
wider community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for open educational resource adoption in higher education, covering the methodological, practical,
regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than
either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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