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Faculty often have many questions about open educational resources (OER) and open textbooks. A few of the most common are located here on this page. Where appropriate, there are resources to support the response. If there is a question you have encountered that hasn't been included here, please comment below! |
Quality
Question: What is the quality like for open textbooks?
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There are a growing number of studies that show that students have the same or better learning outcomes when using open textbooks. Faculty members perceived their students as equally prepared for their course using open textbooks compared to using traditional textbooks (Hilton et al., 2013). A significant portion of faculty members (23%) believed their students performed better when using open textbooks, while a majority (64%) thought that their students showed the same level of performance (Jung et al., 2017; Hilton et al., 2013).
Implementation
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