What makes these current repositories worth investing time, however, is that thanks to decades of feedback, many are vetted by educators and are organized into highly-accessible repositories. Many of ...

For a lot of educators who want to use open educational resources (OER), the challenge is finding the "good stuff." Useful lessons, textbooks and whole courses may be freely available online, but ...

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into efforts encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons.

If you can’t beat them, join them. That is Pearson’s latest approach to open educational resources (OER) — the free online learning materials that have proliferated over the last decade and a half, ...

Open educational resources (OER) are becoming more widespread in classrooms, but many educators and administrators aren’t sure how to make the leap from talking about them to actually using them. It’s ...

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 ...

The Delaware Department of Education (DDE) recently joined a national movement to use high-quality, openly licensed educational resources in schools. In support of the #GoOpen campaign, launched by ...

In Utah, the state department of education is pulling together textbooks aligned to Common Core State Standards made up entirely of open educational resources, or OERs. South Dakota officials have ...

Open educational resources are claiming a place in schools in a diverse array of countries. South Africa’s Education Department is printing math and science textbooks produced from such resources for ...

These OER repositories and content creators provide higher-ed faculty and students vetted, free learning materials As textbook prices soar, tuition skyrockets, and educators are more pressured than ...