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...
by admin | Feb 13, 2018 | In The News
The rising cost of college tuition has received a large amount of coverage over the recent months and years. But another cost has risen at an equally unnerving clip as public university tuition, which has tripled in the past thirty years. Course textbooks...
by admin | Feb 2, 2018 | In The News
After years of dabbling with open educational resources (OER), educators have finally begun to embrace the concept as a legitimate alternative to traditional publishing and licensed curriculum materials — and they’re doing it in droves. More than half of U.S. states —...
by admin | Jan 11, 2018 | In The News
Faculty members struggle to find open educational resources or even understand what they are — but solutions are bubbling up. Awareness of open educational resources is slowly increasing, per a new report last month from the Babson Survey Research Group. For...
by admin | Nov 9, 2017 | In The News
The time has come for K–12 educators to embrace the digital age and, along with it, OERs. As Erik P.M. Vermeulen states in his Aug. 13, 2017, Hacker Noon post “Education in a Digital Age,” we need “a whole new approach to education … [because] we are experiencing a...
