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 ...

On 3 September, experts from around the world gathered for the session “ Open educational resources as digital public goods: ...

If you find a good OER (open education resource) and copy it into your project, and meanwhile the OER keeps evolving, your project may quickly become obsolete. But OER Glue (from Tatemae), recognizing ...

This UNESCO Chairs Seminar, held online on 30 November 2023, gathered insights and recommendations on how Open Educational Resources (OER) can be leveraged for sustainable development in Africa. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every semester, students face the seemingly inevitable decision: purchase expensive course materials or spend that money on rent and other essentials. When students choose the latter, they start the ...

The UD Library, Museums and Press and the Center for Teaching and Learning are accepting proposals for its 2020 open educational resources (OER) grants. UD faculty members, individually or in groups, ...

The easiest way to get started with OER is to adopt existing materials. Once you've found an OER that is suitable for your course, you can begin using it right away. Northwestern University is a ...

The effort to replace textbooks with open educational resources (OER) is gaining momentum as colleges move past pilots to expand the use of free or inexpensive course materials across states and ...

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 ...