In this article, de los Arcos et al (2016) conduct an internal survey of 657 primary/secondary teachers to evaluate their perceptions and use of OER in face-to-face, online, and blended Primary/second...

Farrow et al (2015) report the results of a survey of over 3,000 OER users that used one of three repositories, namely iTunes U (110 responses), OpenLearn (725 responses), and Saylor Academy (2299 res...

Weller et al (2015) conduct a large, mixed methods study to evaluate six of the eleven hypotheses articulated by the Open Research Hub to describe the key "beliefs and motivations regarding OERs" (p. ...

The true power of comparative research around the impact and use of open educational resources is only just being realised, largely through the work done by the Hewlett‐funded OER Research Hub, based ...

Weller (2016) examines OER publications from 2001 to 2015 to understand research trends and classify them by category. He finds that "an emerging OER discipline" (p. 409) first appeared in 2007, which...

The authors conduct a network mapping of citations within the OER space. They identify eight district focus areas with a relatively small amount of overlap, namely (1) OER, (2) social media, (3) OA pu...