Open Education Research by KCC Faculty

KCC faculty members are publishing open education research across a variety of disciplines.  You can see a selection below; you can also check out the full CUNY OER Bibliography to see more open education research being done by CUNY at CUNY.

Brandle, S. M. (2022). The book costs how much??? Textbook cost & OER awareness in Political Science. Journal of Political Science Education, 1-15. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15512169.2022.2104164

Brandle, S.M. (2020). It’s (not) in the reading: American government textbooks’ limited representation of historically marginalized groups. PS: Political Science & Politics, 1-7. doi:10.1017/S1049096520000797 (PDF here)

Brandle, S. M. (2018). Opening up to OERs: electronic original sourcebook versus traditional textbook in the Introduction to American Government course. Journal of Political Science Education, 14(4), 535-554. http://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2017.1420482

Brandle, S.M., Katz, S., Hays, A., Beth, A., Cooney, C., DiSanto, J., Miles, L., & Morrison, A. (2019). But what do the students think: Results of the CUNY cross-campus zero-textbook cost student survey. Open Praxis, 11(1), 85-101. http://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.1.932

Brogun, D. Y., Faucette, A. N., Polizzotto, K., & Tamari, F. (2021). Development of an online general biology open educational resource (OER) laboratory manual. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 22(2), e00133-21. https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/jmbe.00133-21

Leggett, J. M., Wen, J., & Chattman, A. (2018). Emancipatory learning, Open Educational Resources, open education, and digital critical participatory action research. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Innovative Pedagogy, 1(1), 17-35. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/sotl_ip/vol1/iss1/4

Levy, D. & Tila, D. (2022). An overlooked benefit of OER: Showing students we care. International Journal of Research in Education, Humanities, and Commerce, 3(3). Retrieved from https://ijrehc.com/doc/ijrehc03_41.pdf

Tila, D. (2023). Open Pedagogy, Renewable Assignments, and Course Content Creation in Economics. Creative Education, 14, 2394-2404. https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2023.1412153 

Tila, D., & Levy, D. (2023). Curating OER content through AI and ChatGPT. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 11(12), 510-527.

Tila, D., & Levy, D. (2022). Open Educational Resources adoption reduces textbook costs without sacrificing student performance in Business and Economics courses at a community college. Social Education Research, 4(1), 122–130. https://doi.org/10.37256/ser.4120231842