In this series on educational technology game changers, I focused my first blog on one-to-one computing initiatives. Next I'll look at open educational resources (OER), because once all students have ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In the largest study of its kind, a group of researchers has examined the use of open educational resources (OER) and found that students who used OER in their undergraduate courses performed as well ...

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

The Office of the Provost invites faculty to apply for funding to develop or adopt Open Educational Resources for classroom use. Open Educational Resources (OER) consist of books, articles, images, ...