This article is based on a survey of 145 students "at a large, urban, public university" in an unnamed country (the United States, to judge by the racial classifications) and their associated instructors. A number of hypotheses were tested related to the benefits of OER for various stakeholder groups. The most significant finding, I think, was that OER did not produce benefits for the instructors: OER was not positively related to either student perceptions of the instructor or to instructor student evaluation of instruction (SEI) scores. Obviously the results from such a small sample cannot be generalized, but it is encouraging that the author used standardized questions from the OER Research Toolkit so these results may be rolled up with others over time to provide a more global picture.
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