What do students think of professors who use open educational resources (OER)? "Students may seemingly give some credit to those professors, in that they perceive those professors as willing to make material accessible to students. However, that positivity may not be generalized to other evaluations." Activities such as modifying textbooks may impress students more.
Note that I found this article while following up this post from the Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy announcing that "we have published our newest issue on CUNY's instance of Manifold, as part of our ongoing migration of our archives and future production to the platform." Manifold is an open source 'free to use' application that is "library of projects. A project can be all kinds of things: a monograph, an essay, a primary text, a journal article, a journal issue, or a collection of resources." I like the concept, but it's missing important networking features, such as RSS feeds, or proper page metadata. Here's the docs.
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