by admin | Mar 27, 2018 | In The News
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 does not address. But over the past few years, a number of...
by admin | Mar 19, 2018 | In The News
Partnership, collaboration, and information-sharing are intrinsic values within the nonprofit sector. In fact, the exchange of tools and practices has contributed greatly to the evolution of the sector itself. As nonprofits look for emerging strategies to build upon...
by admin | Mar 14, 2018 | In The News
The U.S. Department of Education has selected a nonprofit organization to help the agency share ideas and best practices with states and districts around the country that are trying to ramp up their use of “open” educational resources.The agency said it...
by admin | Mar 7, 2018 | In The News
A new report proposes a framework by which open educational resource initiatives — and particularly those promulgated by for-profit organizations — can be measured. “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” has three purposes...
by admin | Mar 7, 2018 | In The News
Interest in open educational resources — freely accessible and openly licensed learning materials — is booming. But while OER’s growing popularity with faculty members has delighted supporters, it has also attracted the attention of commercial...