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Farrow, Robert; Weller, Martin; Pitt, Rebecca; Iniesto, Francisco; Algers, Anne; Almousa, Samia; Baas, Marjon; Bentley, Penny; Bozkurt, Aras; Butler, Walter; Cardoso, Paula; Chtena, Natascha; Cox, Glenda; Czerwonogora, Ada; Dabrowski, Michael T.; Darby, Robert; DeWaard, Helen; Kathy, Essmiller; Johanna, Funk; Jenni, Hayman; Emily, Helton; Huth, Kate; Hutton, Sarah C.; Iyinolakan, Olawale; Johnson, Kathryn R.; Jordan, Katy; Kuhn, Caroline; Lambert, Sarah; Mittelmeier, Jenna; Nagashima, Tomo; Nerantzi, Chrissi; O'Reilly, Jessica; Paskevicius, Michael; Peramunugamage, Anuradha; Pete, Judith; Power, Virginia; Pulker, Hélène; Rabin, Eyal; Rets, Irina; Roberts, Verena; Rodés, Virginia; Sousa, Lorena; Spica, Elizabeth; Vizgirda, Vidminas; Vladimirschi, Viviane and Witthaus, Gabi (2023). The Go-GN Open Research Handbook. Milton Keynes: Global OER Graduate Network.

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Lewis, Tim; Rienties, Bart and Rets, Irina (2023). Communication, metacommunication and intercultural effectiveness in virtual exchange: The Evaluate project. In: Potolia, Anthippi and Derivry-Plard, Marine eds. Virtual Exchange for Intercultural Language Learning and Teaching: Fostering Communication for the Digital Age. Routledge Research in Language Education. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 133–155.

Konnikov, Alla; Rets, Irina; Hughes, Karen D.; Alshehabi Al-Ani, Jabir; Denier, Nicole; Ding, Lei; Hu, Shenggang; Hu, Yang; Jiang, Bei; Kong, Linglong; Tarafdar, Monideepa and Yu, Dengdeng (2022). Responsible AI for labour market equality (BIAS). In: Hantrais, Linda ed. How to Manage International Multidisciplinary Research Projects. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 75–87.

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Rets, Irina; Stickler, Ursula; Coughlan, Tim and Astruc, Lluïsa (2022). Simplification of open educational resources in English: Its effect on text processing of English learners. In: Rienties, Bart; Hampel, Regine; Scanlon, Eileen and Whitelock, Denise eds. Open World Learning: Research, Innovation and the Challenges of High-Quality Education. Routledge Research in Digital Education and Educational Technology. London: Routledge, pp. 89–102.

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Rets, Irina; Whitelock, Denise; Edwards, Chris; Perryman, Leigh-Anne and Goshtasbpour, Fereshte (2024). Energising the energy literacy debate for environmental education: Exploring citizens’ interest levels, knowledge gaps and individual differences. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 40(4) pp. 740–757.

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Chandler, Kathy; Aristeidou, Maria; Ball, Simon; Charitonos, Koula; Kent, Carmel; Perryman, Leigh‐Anne and Rets, Irina (2024). Collaboration and care in climate education: Brave responses to an uncertain future. The Curriculum Journal (Early access).

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Hu, Yang; Denier, Nicole; Ding, Lei; Tarafdar, Monideepa; Konnikov, Alla; Hughes, Karen D; Hu, Shenggang; Knowles, Bran; Shi, Enze; Alshehabi Al-Ani, Jabir; Rets, Irina; Kong, Linglong; Yu, Dengdeng; Dai, Hongsheng and Jiang, Bei (2024). Language in job advertisements and the reproduction of labor force gender and racial segregation. PNAS Nexus (Early access).

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Tarafdar, Monideepa; Rets, Irina and Hu, Yang (2023). Can ICT enhance workplace inclusion? ICT-enabled workplace inclusion practices and a new agenda for inclusion research in Information Systems. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 32(2), article no. 101773.

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Rets, Irina; Herodotou, Christothea and Gillespie, Anna (2023). Six Practical Recommendations Enabling Ethical Use of Predictive Learning Analytics in Distance Education. Journal of Learning Analytics, 10(1) pp. 149–167.

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Rets, Irina; Coughlan, Tim; Stickler, Ursula and Astruc, Lluïsa (2023). Accessibility of Open Educational Resources: how well are they suited for English learners? Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 38(1) pp. 38–57.

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Rets, Irina; Rienties, Bart and Lewis, Tim (2023). Untangling the relationship between pre-service teachers’ development of intercultural effectiveness and their experiences in virtual exchange. ReCALL, 35(3) pp. 241–257.

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Rets, Irina; Astruc, Lluïsa; Coughlan, Tim and Stickler, Ursula (2022). Approaches to simplifying academic texts in English: English teachers’ views and practices. English for Specific Purposes, 68 pp. 31–46.

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Rienties, Bart; Lewis, Tim; O'Dowd, Robert; Rets, Irina and Rogaten, Jekaterina (2022). The impact of virtual exchange on TPACK and foreign language competence: reviewing a large-scale implementation across 23 virtual exchanges. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 35(3) pp. 577–603.

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Rienties, Bart and Rets, Irina (2022). The impact of virtual exchange on East-West social relations: lessons from a China-Portugal foreign language exchange. Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning, 2(1) pp. 1–19.

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Rets, Irina and Rogaten, Jekaterina (2021). To simplify or not? Facilitating English L2 users’ comprehension and processing of Open Educational Resources in English using text simplification. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 37(3) pp. 705–717.

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Rets, Irina; Herodotou, Christothea; Bayer, Vaclav; Hlosta, Martin and Rienties, Bart (2021). Exploring critical factors of the perceived usefulness of a learning analytics dashboard for distance university students. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 18(1), article no. 46.

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Savasci, Merve and Rets, Irina (2021). “As the Twig is bent, so is the Tree Inclined”: Research engagement among pre-service EFL teachers. The Journal of Language Teaching and Learning, 11(2) pp. 114–137.

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Rets, Irina; Rienties, Bart and Lewis, Timothy (2020). Transforming pre-service teacher education through Virtual Exchange: a mixed-method analysis of perceived TPACK development. Interactive Learning Environments, 31(3) pp. 1229–1241.

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Rets, Irina and Ilya, Ali (2018). Eliciting ELT students’ Understanding of Plagiarism in Academic Writing. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 4(2) pp. 193–211.

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Rets, Irina (2017). Vocabulary Retention and Concordance-based Learning in L3 Acquisition. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3(2) pp. 313–324.

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Bailey, Sara; FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes and Rets, Irina (2024). Digital Exclusion or Digital Rejection? Exploring the Rejection of Digitalised Social Rights by Racialised Individuals with Migration Backgrounds in the UK. In: British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2024, 3-5 Apr 2024, Online.

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Rets, Irina; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Bailey, Sara and FitzGerald, Elizabeth (2023). On the journey to impact: developing an impact strategy plan for the PRIME project. In: Social Sciences Impact Conference 2023, 20-21 Mar 2023, University of Oxford.

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Tarafdar, Monideepa; Rets, Irina and Hu, Yang (2022). Can ICT enhance workplace inclusion? The role of ICT-enabled inclusion practices. In: ECIS 2022 Research-in-Progress Papers, article no. 33.

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Rets, Irina (2020). What if ‘eye’ find it too difficult? English L2 users’ response to text simplification. In: SIG27: Sharpening the facets of online measures: Research at the cutting edge, 14 Dec - 16 Dec 2020, [Online].

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Papathoma, Tina; Ferguson, Rebecca; Iniesto, Francisco; Rets, Irina; Vogiatzis, Dimitrios and Murphy, Victoria (2020). Guidance on how Learning at Scale can be made more accessible. In: Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale, Aug 12-14, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, pp. 289–292.

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Rets, Irina (2021). Linguistic accessibility of Open Educational Resources: Text Simplification As An Aid To Non-native Readers Of English. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Bossu, Carina; Charitonos, Koula; Coughlan, Tim; Deacon, Andrew; Deane, Nawaal; Ferguson, Rebecca; Herodotou, Christothea; Huang, Cheng-Wen; Mayisela, Tabisa; Rets, Irina; Sargent, Julia; Scanlon, Eileen; Small, Janet; Walji, Sukaina; Weller, Martin and Whitelock, Denise (2023). Innovating Pedagogy 2023: Open University Innovation Report 11.

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Hu, Yang; Tarafdar, Monideepa; Alshehabi Al-Ani, Jabir; Rets, Irina; Hu, Shenggang; Denier, Nicole; Hughes, Karen D.; Konnikov, Alla and Ding, Lei (2022). Gendered STEM Workforce in the United Kingdom: The Role of Gender Bias in Job Advertising.

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Farrow, Robert; Iniesto, Francisco; Weller, Martin; Pitt, Rebecca; Algers, Anne; Bozkurt, Aras; Cox, Glenda; Czerwonogora, Ada; Elias, Tanya; Essmiller, Kathy; Funk, Johanna; Lambert, Sarah; Mittelmeier, Jenna; Nagashima, Tomo; Rabin, Eyal; Rets, Irina; Spica, Elizabeth; Vladimirschi, Viviane and Witthaus, Gabi (2021). GO-GN Guide to Conceptual Frameworks.