Last year Achieving the Dream began a $9.8-million project to use open educational resources (OER) to create degree programs at 38 community colleges. A study on early returns, which was conducted by ...

A multi-layered, multi-year study on the use of open educational resources found that in some colleges, students who took multiple OER courses earned more credits on average over time than similar ...

Each semester, the University of Arkansas Libraries offer faculty compensation and support to reduce the cost of textbooks for their students by using open educational resources.

Karl Nelson is the director of the Digital Learning Department for the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Karl Nelson is the director of the Digital Learning Department ...

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 ...

This article was updated on Tuesday afternoon and evening with comments from a Department of Education spokesperson and additional details on the winning projects. Last year, when Congress authorized ...

Here are five obstacles that OER champions are facing in higher education and a few tips to work past them. In their quest to incorporate open educational resources (OERs) into today's college ...

For years, Stephanie Anagnoson worked in academic publishing. But it wasn’t until her current gig, serving as an instructor for a course on water supply and demand in California, that she got her feet ...

Lori Ann Simmons, a mathematics instructor at Chippewa Valley Technical College, noticed some regular comments that would appear on the course evaluations that students filled out each semester at the ...

Clicking onto their favorite courses at the end of May, educators found that they were getting redirected somewhere else. They were trying to prep summer courses by linking to the freely available, ...