Effects of Open Textbook Adoption on Teachers’ Open Practices

Stacie Mason; Royce Kimmons

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 19, No. 3 (Jul 11, 2018)

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand whether certain theoretical benefits that open educational resources (OER) might have on teacher practice were being realized by a group of secondary teachers using open science textbooks. In...

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Preparing Elementary School Teachers to Teach Computing, Coding, and Computational Thinking

Stacie L. Mason; Peter J. Rich

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 2019) pp. 790–824

This literature review synthesized current research on preservice and in-service programs that improve K–6 teachers’ attitudes, self-efficacy, or knowledge to teach computing, coding, or computational thinking. A review of current computing training ...

Rating the Quality of Open Textbooks: How Reviewer and Text Characteristics Predict Ratings

Lane Fischer; David Ernst; Stacie Mason

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

Using data collected from peer reviews for Open Textbook Library titles, this paper explores questions about rating the quality of open textbooks. The five research questions addressed the relationship between textbook and reviewer characteristics...