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 ...

OER can save students money on textbooks. You can customize OER content to fit your course needs. OER must always be used exactly as they are provided, without edits. OER supports equitable access to ...

Monday marked the beginning of International Open Access Week, but the Open Educational Resources Consortium at the ...

Awareness of open educational resources is slowly increasing, per a new report last month from the Babson Survey Research Group. For many faculty members, though, finding OER remains a daunting ...

In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, ...

Open educational resources typically have been offered to educators in bite-sized chunks—an individual lesson here, a classroom module there—and have been meant to fill in holes the core curriculum ...

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 ...

March 10 marks the end of Open Education Week, which was launched to draw attention to open educational r esources. Those are essentially educator-created curricular and other classroom materials that ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The news releases regularly roll in to the email inbox these days with ...

Web-based educational tools hold the promise of both reducing the cost of higher education and helping learners complete their degrees. Open courseware and other open educational resources are ...

Whether through AIR's Faculty Grant Program or as one-off projects, instructors at Northwestern from across disciplines use and create OER. See below for a list of in-process projects, as well as ...

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 ...