[Open-education] [cc-openedu] Re: New methodological guide on assessing impact of open e-textbook programs, based on the Polish case

Fri Mar 29 00:48:02 UTC 2019

Thanks, Alek for sharing a good resource.
I am hopeful this will be helpful for us in pursuing these kinds of
initiatives in Nepal as well.

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:22 PM Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org>
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> Well done, Alek and team!
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> This is a valuable contribution to the open education community.
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> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 3:31 AM Alek Tarkowski <
> atarkowski at centrumcyfrowe.pl> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I wanted to share with you a new report published by the Joint Research
>> Center of the European Commission, which will be interesting for those of
>> you working on Open Education policymaking.
>>
>> The report is a methodological guide for assessing impact of open
>> e-textbook programs and it is based on an analysis of the Polish
>> e-textbooks program. The guide has been co-authored by me and Jan Strycharz
>> (Centrum Cyfrowe, Poland), Michał Sitek (IBE, Poland), Riina Vuorikari and
>> Jonatan Castaño (IPTS JRC)
>>
>> You can read the full report here:
>>
>> https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/methodological-guide-implementation-and-evaluation-open-e-textbook-programs
>>
>> And here’s the abstract:
>> Abstract:
>> In order to draw evidence-based conclusions about publicly funded
>> programmes and interventions, there is an interest in impact assessment.
>> This Methodological Guide is meant to provide assistance on conducting
>> evaluations of public initiatives focused on the provision of open digital
>> textbooks. Such textbooks are in a digital format and made available
>> publicly online. When funded through public funds, it becomes important to
>> understand the possible costs and savings. Therefore, the Guide focuses on
>> exploring the costs and savings associated with such initiatives, and on
>> the other hand, estimating their impact on learning outcomes (e.g.
>> exemplified as academic achievements). The Guide aims to be generic drawing
>> on experiences gained from an independent evaluation of a Polish public
>> program that produced open digital textbooks. Therefore, the methodology
>> presented in this Guide can also be used to analyse programs focused on
>> other types of digital content in education. The long-term aim of the Guide
>> is to promote the proper evaluation of such initiatives in the future.
>>
>> We hope that this guide will be useful for states that are developing or
>> planning to develop e-textbook programs.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Alek Tarkowski
>>
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