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 ...

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. As education costs soar, students face barriers when accessing essential learning resources. Open educational resources break ...

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 Science and Technology Section (STS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) hosted a panel discussion titled “OER: Science Liaisons Strengthening the Academy with Open ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Federal lawmakers want to encourage schools to consider using free, modifiable learning resources for students before investing in costly textbooks and curricula. A move in the U.S. Senate to promote ...

There’s new evidence that open educational resources may contribute to helping students complete college. Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) represent a transformative shift in global educational paradigms, promoting accessible, flexible and inclusive learning ...