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Below is a list of case studies on OER in higher education.
OER CASE STUDIES
 

Boosting Student Achievement in Post-Secondary General Chemistry With the ARIS Online Learning and Course Management System: College of Charleston
This brief case study describes the College of Charlston's use of ARIS. The academic objective of using the system was to recapture lecture time to focus on instruction and go deeper into the course syllabus. Secondly, to enhance student understanding of ... ... read more
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Boosting Student Achievement in Post-Secondary General Chemistry With the ARIS Online Learning and Course Management System: University of Texas at Dallas
This case study describes the University of Texas's use of the ARIS online learning and course management system. The academic object of using the system with their chemistry students was to foster continuing development of chemistry skills and understand... ... read more
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Building Open Educational Resources from the Ground Up: South Africa’s Free High School Science Texts
Partly because the development of open educational resources (OER) is a relatively new field that is just now receiving more widespread attention and study, there have been few opportunities to share knowledge across program, organizational and national b... ... read more
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Collaborative Development of Open Content: A Process Model to Unlock the Potential for African Universities
Given the cost of content, the under-resourcing of universities and the scattered nature of expertise in Africa, the collaborative development of open content seems like a useful way to get high-quality, locally-relevant content for using to enhance teac... ... read more
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Course Management Systems and Campus-Based Learning
One of the driving forces behind this study was the insistence of the Student Federation Council at Seneca College, where the study took place, was that they wanted more professors to use the Course Management System in their campus-based courses, and tho... ... read more
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Creating, Doing, and Sustaining OER: Lessons from Six Open Educational Resource Projects
A relatively recent global movement, the development of free-to-use open educational resources (OER) has generated a dynamic field of widespread interest and study regarding methods for creating and sustaining OER. To help foster a thriving OER movement w... ... read more
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Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy
It has been widely suggested, and in some respects accepted, that a so-called Net Generation of students is passing through our universities. Born roughly between 1980 and 1994 these students have been characterised as being technologically savvy, having... ... read more
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http://www.netgen.unimelb.edu.au/downloads/handbook/NetGenHandbookAll.pdf

New Zealand OER Project
The first objective of the NZ OER project is to develop some 'proof of concept' courseware that is freely available to all tertiary education institutions in New Zealand. Underpinning this objective were our goals to increase the quality of eLearning mate... ... read more
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http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=OER_stories/New_Zealand_OER_Project

OpenLearn, The Open University
The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. This is the LearningSpace, where you'll find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum. Study independently at your own pace or join a group and use the free lea... ... read more
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http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

Prioritizing the Implementation of E-Learning Tools to Enhance the Post-Secondary Learning Environment
The implementation of both blended learning and web-based programs is becoming more prevalent within higher education in Canada. Thus, there is increasing reliance upon e-learning tools to support student learning in a variety of teaching environments. ... ... read more
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