Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education

David Wiley

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning Vol. 2008, No. 1 (Nov 17, 2008)

Open educational resources such as MIT OpenCourseWare demonstrate that educational materials are increasingly becoming a free, ubiquitous infrastructure for teaching and learning. Leveraging free and open access to a wide range of high quality...

The Open Future: Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation

David Wiley

EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 45, No. 4 (2010) pp. 14–16

The word "open" is receiving a lot of attention in education circles. For over a decade, "open" has been used as an adjective to modify a variety of nouns that describe teaching and learning materials. For example, open content, open educational...

The Open High School of Utah: Openness, Disaggregation, and the Future of Schools

David Wiley

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 53, No. 4 (July 2009) pp. 37–40

While the charter movement has a rich history in Utah, virtual charters are a recent development. In 2007, a founding board consisting of faculty, staff, and graduate students in Utah State University's Center for Open and Sustainable Learning...

Instructional Technology and Objectification

Bekir Gur; David Wiley; David Wiley

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 33, No. 3 (May 23, 2008)

Objectification refers to the way in which everything (including human beings) is treated as an object, raw material, or resource to be manipulated and used. In this article, objectification refers to the way that education is often reduced to the...

Book Reviews / Revue de Livres

Brian Lamb; David Wiley; David Wiley

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 28, No. 3 (Oct 15, 2002)

Scoping and Sequencing Educational Resources and Speech Acts: A Unified Design Framework for Learning Objects and Educational Discourse

David Wiley; Sandie Waters

Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2005) pp. 143–150

Instructional design is largely a matter of scope and sequence, and designing instruction with learning objections is no exception. Traditionally, learning objects are considered atomic units of educational content, and designing instruction with...

Free: Why Authors Are Giving Books Away on the Internet

John Hilton; David Wiley

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 54, No. 2 (March 2010) pp. 43–49

With increasing frequency, authors in academic and non-academic fields are releasing their books for free digital distribution. Anecdotal evidence suggests that exposure to both authors and books increases when books are available as free downloads, ...

Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy

David Wiley; John Hilton

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 19, No. 4 (Sep 26, 2018)

The term “open pedagogy” has been used in a variety of different ways over the past several decades. In recent years, its use has also become associated with Open Educational Resources (OER). The wide range of competing definitions of open pedagogy, ...

Language: English

The Genesis of an OpenCourseWare Project

Shelley Henson; David Wiley

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 730–733

There is growing momentum among higher education institutions to participate in a movement to provide free and open access to educational materials called OpenCourseWare (OCW). The purpose of this study was to follow OCW projects at several higher...

A Sustainable Model for OpenCourseWare Development

Justin Johansen; David Wiley

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 59, No. 3 (June 2011) pp. 369–382

The purposes of this study were to (a) determine the cost of converting BYU Independent Study's e-learning courses into OpenCourseWare, (b) assess the impact of opening those courses on paid enrollment in the credit-bearing versions of the courses,...

Learning object design and sequencing theory

David Arnim Wiley

Learning@object design and sequencing theory (2000) pp. 1–131

Given the likelihood of the broad deployment of learning objects-based technology, and the dangers of employing it in an instructionally unprincipled manner, the need for an instructional design theory providing explicit support for the...

Using Weblogs in Scholarship and Teaching

Trey Martindale; David A. Wiley

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 49, No. 2 (2005) pp. 55–61

Blogs are currently receiving a great deal of attention in the popular media. In some cases blogs are being called "the next killer application," and "a replacement for email." While a portion of this attention is warranted, in the end a blog is...

The Marrow of Achievement Test Score Declines

Annegret Harnischfeger; David E. Wiley

Educational Technology Vol. 16, No. 6 (1976) pp. 5–14

The recent test score declines should initiate a reconsideration of basic and advanced skills, skills necessary for a rounded life, consumption, employment, leisure and political action. The importance of achievement test score declines requires a...

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)

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...

Classroom Control: Room and Time for Improvement

Annegret Harnischfeger; David E. Wiley

Educational Technology Vol. 18, No. 5 (1978) pp. 27–9

A study of time allocation in urban primary-school settings. (RAO)

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...

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...

The RISE Framework: Using Learning Analytics to Automatically Identify Open Educational Resources for Continuous Improvement

Robert Bodily; Rob Nyland; David Wiley

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr 04, 2017)

The RISE (Resource Inspection, Selection, and Enhancement) Framework is a framework supporting the continuous improvement of open educational resources (OER). The framework is an automated process that identifies learning resources that should be...

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...

Online Self-Organizing Social Systems: The Decentralized Future of Online Learning

David A. Wiley; Erin K. Edwards

Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 3, No. 1 (2002) pp. 33–46

Describes an online self-organizing social system (OSOSS) which allows large numbers of individuals to self-organize in a highly decentralized manner to solve problems and accomplish other goals. Topics include scalability and bandwidth in online...

The Four "R"s of Openness and ALMS Analysis: Frameworks for Open Educational Resources

John Hilton; David Wiley; Jared Stein; Aaron Johnson

Open Learning Vol. 25, No. 1 (February 2010) pp. 37–44

A significant movement in education concerns the use of open educational resources. By "open" it is generally meant that the resource is available at no cost to others for adaptation and reuse in different contexts. However, "open" is not a simple...

Using Online Technologies to Extend a Classroom to Learners at a Distance

John L. Hilton; Charles Graham; Peter Rich; David Wiley

Distance Education Vol. 31, No. 1 (May 2010) pp. 77–92

The authors studied a course in which an instructor allowed individuals at a distance to participate. Although these students were not formally enrolled in the university where the class took place, the instructor gave them full access to all course ...

The Impact of Open Textbooks on Secondary Science Learning Outcomes

T Jared Robinson; Lane Fischer; David Wiley; John Hilton

Educational Researcher Vol. 43, No. 7 (October 2014) pp. 341–351

Given the increasing costs associated with commercial textbooks and decreasing financial support of public schools, it is important to better understand the impacts of open educational resources on student outcomes. The purpose of this quantitative...

Open Content and Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education

Tom Caswell; Shelley Henson; Marion Jensen; David Wiley

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 9, No. 1 (Feb 26, 2008)

The role of distance education is shifting. Traditionally distance education was limited in the number of people served because of production, reproduction, and distribution costs. Today, while it still costs the university time and money to produce ...

Analysis of Student and Faculty Perceptions of Textbook Costs in Higher Education

Michael Martin; Olga Belikov; John Hilton; David Wiley; Lane Fischer

Open Praxis Vol. 9, No. 1 (Mar 31, 2017) pp. 79–91

The cost of textbooks has continued to impact students in higher education. Students have reported that they make decisions on which courses to take based on the specific cost of textbooks. Faculty have reported willingness to use open textbooks to...

A Preliminary Exploration of the Relationships Between Student-Created OER, Sustainability, and Students' Success

David Wiley; Ashley Webb; Sarah Weston; DeLaina Tonks

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 18, No. 4 (Jun 16, 2017)

This article explores the relationship between open educational resources (OER) created by students for use by other students, the long-term sustainability of the movement toward OER, and the success of students who use OER created by other students ...

Language: English

A Design Tool For Classifying The Level Of Interactivity And Amount Of Instruction Delivered Online

Laurie Nelson; David Wiley; Joseph South; Julene Bassett; Larry Seawright

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 1613–1614

This paper explores a classification system for the level of interactivity and the amount of instruction delivered online. First, we introduce the underlying need for better initial design of online courses. A brief review of other classification...

Topics: Instructional Design

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 ...

“Opening” a new kind of school: The story of the Open High School of Utah

DeLaina Tonks; Sarah Weston; David Wiley; Michael Barbour

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 14, No. 1 (Feb 14, 2013) pp. 255–271

The use of online learning at the primary and secondary school level is growing exponentially in the United States. Much of this growth is with full-time online schools, most of which are operated by for-profit companies that use proprietary online...

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...

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...

A Multi-Institutional Study of the Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on the Learning Outcomes of Post-Secondary Students

Lane Fischer; John Hilton; T Jared Robinson; David A. Wiley

Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 27, No. 3 (December 2015) pp. 159–172

In some educational settings, the cost of textbooks approaches or even exceeds the cost of tuition. Given limited resources, it is important to better understand the impacts of free open educational resources (OER) on student outcomes. Utilizing...

Overcoming the Limitations of Learning Objects

David Wiley; Sandie Waters; Deonne Dawson; Brent Lambert; Matthew Barclay; David Wade; Laurie Nelson

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 13, No. 4 (2004) pp. 507–521

There are a number of issues that face individuals who would use learning objects for instructional purposes. These issues include problems with decontextualization, enabling meaningful reusability, and overcoming biases toward didactic approaches...

Topics: Learning Objects, Instructional Design

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...

An OER COUP: College Teacher and Student Perceptions of Open Educational Resources

T J. Bliss; T Jared Robinson; John Hilton; David A. Wiley

Journal of Interactive Media in Education Vol. 2013, No. 1 (2013)

Despite increased development and dissemination, there has been very little empirical research on Open Educational Resources (OER). Teachers and students involved in a large-scale OER initiative at eight community colleges across the United States...

Open Textbooks and Increased Student Access and Outcomes

Andrew Feldstein; Mirta Martin; Amy Hudson; Kiara Warren; John Hilton; David Wiley

European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning Vol. 2 (2010)

This study reports findings from a year-long pilot study during which 991 students in 9 core courses in the Virginia State University School of Business replaced traditional textbooks with openly licensed books and other digital content. The...

Teaching, Doing, and Sharing Project Management in a Studio Environment: The Development of an Instructional Design Open-Source Project Management Textbook

Daniel L. Randall; Jacquelyn C. Johnson; Richard E. West; David A. Wiley

Educational Technology Vol. 53, No. 6 (2013) pp. 24–28

In this article, the authors present an example of a project-based course within a studio environment that taught collaborative innovation skills and produced an open-source project management textbook for the field of instructional design and...