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Open access textbooks and financial sustainability: A case study on Flat World Knowledge
John Hilton III; David Wiley
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 12, No. 5 (Jun 29, 2011) pp. 18–26
Many college students and their families are concerned about the high costs of textbooks. A company called Flat World Knowledge both gives away and sells open-source textbooks in a way it believes to be financially sustainable. This article reports...
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Openness and the Future of Higher Education
David Wiley; John Hilton III
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 10, No. 5 (Oct 14, 2009)
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Open-Access Textbooks and Financial Sustainability: A Case Study on Flat World Knowledge
John Hilton III; David Wiley
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 12, No. 5 (Jun 29, 2011) pp. 18–26
Many college students and their families are concerned about the high costs of textbooks. A company called Flat World Knowledge both gives away and sells open-source textbooks in a way it believes to be financially sustainable. This article reports...
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Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education
David Wiley; John Hilton III
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 10, No. 5 (Oct 14, 2009)
Openness is a fundamental value underlying significant changes in society and is a prerequisite to changes institutions of higher education need to make in order to remain relevant to the society in which they exist. There are a number of ways...
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Examining the reuse of open textbooks
John Hilton III; Neil Lutz; David Wiley
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 13, No. 2 (Apr 02, 2012) pp. 45–58
An important element of open educational resources (OER) is the permission to use the materials in new ways, including revising and remixing them. Prior research has shown that the revision and remix rates for OER are relatively low. In this study...
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From Open Educational Resources to College Credit: The Approaches of Saylor Academy
John Hilton III; Lindsay Murphy; Devon Ritter
Open Praxis Vol. 6, No. 4 (Nov 11, 2014) pp. 365–374
Over the past decade great progress has been made in improving the availability of Open Educational Resources (OER). However, one area in which OER has been deficient is in its ability to lead to college or university credit, something that many...
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A preliminary examination of the cost savings and learning impacts of using open textbooks in middle and high school science classes
David Wiley; John Hilton III; Shelley Ellington; Tiffany Hall
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 13, No. 3 (May 22, 2012) pp. 262–276
Proponents of open educational resources claim that significant cost savings are possible when open textbooks displace traditional textbooks in the classroom. Over a period of two years, we worked with 20 middle and high school science teachers ...
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Maintaining Momentum Toward Graduation: OER and the Course Throughput Rate
John Hilton III; Lane Fischer; David Wiley; Linda William
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 17, No. 6 (Dec 06, 2016)
Open Educational Resources (OER) have the potential to replace traditional textbooks in higher education. Previous studies indicate that use of OER results in high student and faculty satisfaction, lower costs, and similar or better educational...
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Cost-savings achieved in two semesters through the adoption of open educational resources
John Hilton III; T Robinson; David Wiley; J Ackerman
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr 01, 2014)
Textbooks represent a significant portion of the overall cost of higher education in the United States. The burden of these costs is typically shouldered by students, those who support them, and the taxpayers who fund the grants and student loans...
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Examining Student Perception of an Open Statistics Book
Barbara Illowsky; John Hilton III; Justin Whiting; Jordan Ackerman
Open Praxis Vol. 8, No. 3 (Aug 22, 2016) pp. 265–276
The rise of Open Educational Resources (OER) research provides data that Open Textbooks and other forms of OER may be one cost saving approach for college and university students. Yet little research has been conducted around the attitudes and...
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The adoption of open educational resources by one community college math department
John Hilton III; Donna Gaudet; Phil Clark; Jared Robinson; David Wiley
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 14, No. 4 (Aug 28, 2013)
The high cost of textbooks is of concern not only to college students but also to society as a whole. Open textbooks promise the same educational benefits as traditional textbooks; however, their efficacy remains largely untested. We report on one...