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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, ...

On 3 September, experts from around the world gathered for the session “Open educational resources as digital public goods: implementing the Dubai Declaration through AI and emerging technologies” to ...

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, ...

To help reduce textbook costs for students and offer them more relevant materials, faculty, staff and top administrators at University of Texas Permian Basin are working to create Open Educational ...