A growing body of research has demonstrated that open educational resources (OER) provide an opportunity for improvements in learning outcomes compared to traditional texts. This project builds on the Open Education Group’s COUP framework to explore student and faculty use and perceptions of an open education World Regional Geography textbook. World Regional Geography is a lower-level course that is typically taught using traditional methods and with an emphasis on breadth over depth. As this case study explores, however, the creation and use of OER has provided an opportunity to completely reconfigure the course using a flipped classroom approach. Further, this study finds a statistically significant difference in student perception of OER before and after using the open course textbook, a significant difference in how often students read the book, and an overall positive response from students. Shifting to an open textbook has thus transformed and revitalized the class both from a student and an instructor perspective.

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开放世界区域地理：一个案例研究

越来越多的研究表明，与传统教科书相比，开放式教育资源（OER）提供了改善学习成果的机会。该项目建立在开放教育小组的COUP框架的基础上，以探索学生和教师的使用以及对开放教育《世界区域地理》教科书的看法。《世界区域地理》是一门较低层次的课程，通常使用传统方法进行授课，并着重于广度。然而，随着本案例研究的深入，OER的创建和使用为使用翻转课堂方法完全重新配置课程提供了机会。此外，这项研究发现，在使用开放课程教科书之前和之后，学生对OER的认知在统计上存在显着差异，学生阅读本书的频率有显着差异，学生的总体评价也很高。因此，从学生和讲师的角度来看，转向开放式教科书已经改变并重振了课堂。