Can open educational resources, or OER, truly create more equity and access? That was the question at the heart of our #DLNchat on January 9, which centered around OER in Higher Education. Our special ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are published under an open copyright license, frequently a Creative Commons license, that permits others to freely use, adapt ...

As Open Education Week comes to a close, it's time to reflect on how far open educational resources (OER) have come and what challenges lie ahead. Though it's been 15 years since MIT blazed the trail ...

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into efforts encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons.

OER Commons, an organization focused on creating open educational resources for education, has developed a new tool for authoring OER. Open Author, as it's named, consolidates the functions of three ...

Open courseware experts announced plans to publish the 5R Open Course Design Framework, a set of guidelines and best practices for developing courses using open educational resources (OER). The ...

The cost of expensive commercial textbooks is a growing barrier to students’ ability to succeed. From 2006 to 2016, the cost of textbooks increased by 88 percent, more than than nearly any other ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The development of these products has sparked concern among some OER advocates, who question whether ...

Though the term "open educational resources" has become widely used in recent years, not everyone is clear on exactly what it means. According to the Hewlett Foundation, whose definition is considered ...