As the year turns, it’s a good time to look back before moving forward. We were curious to see how the materials we published in the Library of Open Educational Resources over the past two years have reached educational professionals. The user statistics are encouraging.
Materials in the Tools for Teaching Critical Online Reading (Finnish version) collection have been viewed between 2,000 and 9,000 times and downloaded 160–600 times each. Based on downloads, the most popular resource is Conflicting Texts, which includes four researcher-designed texts. In these texts, factors influencing credibility (expertise, sincerity, and quality of evidence) are systematically manipulated in the same way as in our critical online reading assessment. It is not easy to find short, age-appropriate texts online that clearly demonstrate these factors within a single text. This may explain why the material has been considered particularly useful.
Our Funky Facts Detective School videos have also attracted attention, with over 5,000 views, and both teacher and student materials have been downloaded around 500 times.
We are delighted that our research-based materials have reached so many users! Our resources have been showcased at the Critical project booth during EDUCA and ITK events, which has certainly helped increase their visibility. The final year of the Critical project, funded by the Strategic Research Council, is now underway. There’s still time to explore our materials at EDUCA, ITK, and the Opi26 event in Oulu.
Tools for Teaching Critical Online Reading has been published in several languages:
Finnish:https://aoe.fi/#/kokoelma/294
English: https://aoe.fi/#/kokoelma/338
Swedish: https://aoe.fi/#/kokoelma/333
Italian: https://aoe.fi/#/kokoelma/341