[Open-education] OER quality and use in K-12 - a recent US study yields positive results

[Paul Bacsich Sero]

The Distance Education Research Network in Australia has just made available a “Research Review” summary of a recent study by Royce Kimmons from Brigham Young University, USA. 

It sought to find out whether open educational resources, specifically open textbooks, can be considered as high quality as copyright-restricted alternatives for K-12 educators and whether the adaptation of these textbooks to local or classroom needs makes any difference in evaluation of their quality The study title is “OER quality and adaptation in K-12: Comparing teacher evaluations of copyright-restricted, open, and open/adapted textbooks”

For the DERN Study Summary see https://dern.acer.edu.au/dern/research-reviews/page/oer-quality-and-use-in-k-12
It observes in particular that 
  “the study provides a starting point for K-12 institutions contemplating the adoption of open educational resources as well as a set of useful quality assurance measures to consider in teacher-based evaluations which focus primarily on the usefulness of the resources for classroom teaching”

If others would like to bring similar studies to the Group’s attention or send us the text for a meta-review blog posting, we would be very interested!

Paul

Paul Bacsich
Coordinator, Open Education Working Group - http://education.okfn.org/blog/ 
Senior Consultant, SeroHE
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