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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Miami University Regionals Teaching Professor Caryn Neumann has been selected as a recipient for a unique grant that helps college instructors learn how to better utilize Open Educational Resources ...

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 ...

As education costs soar, students face barriers when accessing essential learning resources. Open educational resources break down these barriers, granting all students access to vital materials ...

During the past decade, the idea of education as a 21st-century civil rights issue has surged. Many of our nation’s public schools that serve large numbers of low-income communities frequently face ...

To help reduce textbook costs for students and offer them more relevant materials, faculty, staff and top administrators at University of Texas Permian Basin are working to create Open Educational ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) have emerged as a critical component in higher education, enabling the widespread sharing of knowledge through freely accessible and adaptable materials. These ...

The disruption wrought by COVID-19 seems like it should have created fertile ground for the spread of the freely available, openly licensed course materials known as open educational resources, or OER ...

Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials distributed at no cost and that have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-­purposing by ...