Relative advantage of OER alone will not lead to rapid adoption, especially if framed as cost savings¶

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q1 i? The seven responses collectively indicate that OER's relative advantage alone will not produce rapid adoption or achieve democratization, equity, and educational improvement, particularly when relative advantage is reduced to cost savings. → Kimmons 2021

Evidence¶

Kimmons 2021¶

Kimmons, R. (2021). Shifting to open education in our digital learning. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-09949-8

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This is the editorial's own interpretive synthesis of the seven responses, offered as an argument rather than a tested result. It contrasts cost-savings framings with "expansive openness" (Kimmons 2016). No empirical data or effect size is printed for this takeaway.

"First, relative advantage of OER alone will not lead to their rapid adoption and the achievement of their proposed benefits of democratization, equity, and educational improvement, especially if relative advantage is merely conceptualized as cost savings (as compared to more "expansive openness" Kimmons [2016])."

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