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OER/ Open Access

The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the human right to access high-quality education. The Open Education Movement is not just about cost savings and easy access to openly licensed content; it’s about participation and co-creation.

Why Are Open Education Resources Important?

The Review Project

Led by John Hilton III, with additional contributions from Stacie Mason and Virginia Clinton

This review provides a summary of all known empirical research on the impacts of OER adoption (including our own). The version below will be periodically updated with new articles as we become aware of them. If you know of an empirical research study on the impacts of OER adoption that is not included in this review, please leave a comment below. An in-depth article focusing on empirical research relating to perceptions and efficacy at the college level was published by the journal Educational Technology Research and Development in August of 2019. Please access the open-access version of this article or a summary video based on an earlier version. You can also access overview slides that summarize this research, although the overall impact numbers have significantly increased since the slides were created.