Research on OER

• OERI
  The OERI provides a selection of research related to OER's impact on student success, cost-savings, equity, and findings:  OER and Success link
• Literature to Review

  The following articles show the benefits of OER (in order of recency):

  • Watson et al. (2023) for AAC&U and ISKME:  Link to PDF of Leveraging Open Educational Resources ot Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Crossfield and Ryan (2022) for Yavapai College:  Link to PDF of White Paper:  Improving Student Success Through the Use of Open Educational Resources
  • Hilton (2020):  Link to Springer page for Open Educational Resources, Student Efficacy, and User Perceptions:  A Synthesis of Research Published between 2015 and 2018
  • Neu-Stephens (2020) dissertation:  Link to PDF of Open Educational Resources and Enrollment Intensity in One Southern California Community College
  • Wakim and Arteaga (2020): Link to page on How We Saved Students $2 Million in 5 Years
  • Clinton and Khan (2019) on AERA Open page for Sage Journals: Link to AERA Open page for Efficacy of Open Textbook Adoption on Learning Performance and Course Withdrawal Rates:  A Meta-Analysis
  • Colvard et al.'s (2018): Link to PDF of The Impact Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics
  • Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER; nd):  Link to page on the California ZTC Degree
  • Hilton (2016):  Video summary

• OER at TC

  When searching "This section has a Zero Textbook Cost option" in the PDF of the schedule (link to recent course schedules) of classes, there are up to 70 ZTC sections offered at Taft College.