Open Educational Resources (OERs) are freely available materials that can be downloaded, edited, and shared to better serve Students, Faculty, Librarians and Educational Leaders and even Industry and Organizational Leaders. Open Educational Resources may include both physical and digital learning materials such as textbooks, lesson plans, assignments, games, multimedia, etc.
As educational institutions of all levels continue to experience tightening budgets, areas in which to reduce costs represent a shrinking pool. Those who have been integrating OERs within curricula over the last few years, however, have quickly recognized not only significant cost savings, but have also pioneered valuable research studies exploring topics around a) student/faculty/administrator/librarian perceptions of OERs in practice; b) various pedagogical approaches; and c) policy and practice implications.
The IJOER publishes articles that focus on topics based upon the Open Educational Research Hub's 11 hypotheses developed by de los Arcos, Farrow, Perryman, Pitt, & Weller (2014). The OER Research Hub "provides a focus for research, designed to give answers to the overall question 'What is the impact of OER on learning and teaching practices?' and identify the particular influence of openness" (de los Arcos, et al., 2014, p. 2).
Table of Contents
Editorial Letter
Melissa Layne, Samantha Peter, Kristina Clement, and Hilary Baribeau
doi: 10.18278/ijoer.3.1.1
3 Questions for an OER Leader
Featuring Brittany Dudek
doi: 10.18278/ijoer.3.1.2
Perceptions and Practice of Openness Among Academic Librarians
Mary Jo Orzech and Samuel J. Abramovich
doi: 10.18278/ijoer.3.1.3
Open Education Librarianship: A Position Description Analysis of the Newly Emerging Role in Academic Libraries
Amanda Larson
doi: 10.18278/ijoer.3.1.4
Understanding the Impact of OER Courses in Relation to Student Socioeconomic Status and Employment
Kim Read, Hengtao Tang, Amber Dhamija, and Bob Bodily
doi: 10.18278/ijoer.3.1.5
A Narrative Review and Conceptual Analysis of OER Perception Studies: Implications for Developing a Situational Scale for Faculty Self-Efficacy
Teri Oaks Galloway
doi: 10.18278/ijoer.3.1.6
Accessible Open Educational Resources and Librarian Involvement
Silvana Temesio
doi: 10.18278/ijoer.3.1.7
Librarian Advocacy for Open Educational Resource Adoptions and Programs
Megan Dempsey and Alejandra Nann
doi: 10.18278/ijoer.3.1.8
Emotional Labor in Open Access Advocacy: A Librarian's Perspective
Elizabeth Batte
doi: 10.18278/ijoer.3.1.9
Bad (Feminist) Librarian: Theories and Strategies for OER Librarianship
Jessica Yen-Ping Dai and Lindsay Inge Carpenter
doi: 10.18278/ijoer.3.1.10
