This program enables faculty to select an open educational resource to replace a commercially produced textbook for one of their courses and to assess its use in comparison to the traditional, ...

Every semester, students face the seemingly inevitable decision: purchase expensive course materials or spend that money on rent and other essentials. When students choose the latter, they start the ...

Open educational resources (OER) offer a host of benefits to students and faculty, according to a new study of 38 community colleges across 13 states. More than 60 percent of students in the ...

Awareness of open educational resources is slowly increasing, per a new report last month from the Babson Survey Research Group. For many faculty members, though, finding OER remains a daunting ...

More than 60 percent of students in the participating community colleges say they experienced a higher-quality learning experience in an OER (open educational resources) course compared to a typical ...

For a few years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Melody Rood helped award faculty members small grants to create open educational resources — course materials that are openly ...

As they face more challenging academic standards and an increasingly diverse student population, many schools and districts are finding that a tool central to almost every classroom—a textbook—is no ...

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 ...

In 2024, Arab states reaffirmed their commitment through the Dubai Declaration on OER which emphasized the importance of ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. No question that the OER messaging and movement are gaining ground. For example, almost three-fourths ...

High school students sitting at the desk in the classroom during lesson, using laptops. Close up of hands, unrecognizable people. · K-12 Dive · izusek via Getty Images Most K-12 teachers (81%) require ...

This program enables faculty to select an open educational resource to replace a commercially produced textbook for one of their courses and to assess its use in comparison to the traditional, ...