E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Education, and Why We Should Care

February 26, 2013

Key Takeaways Open educational resources made a dramatic appearance with the 2002 debut of MIT's Open Courseware initiative. In the roughly 10 years since, OERs hav…

The Cost and Quality of Online Open Textbooks: Perceptions of Community College Faculty and Students

February 4, 2013

Proponents of open educational resources (OER) claim that significant cost savings are possible when open textbooks displace traditional textbooks in the college classroom. We investigated st…

ERO Podcast: Chief of Staff for the Khan Academy, Jessica Yuen

September 5, 2012

In this podcast, we talk with Chief of Staff for the Khan Academy, Jessica Yuen. In our conversation, she discusses the Khan Academy's use of analytics, attitude toward affordability for stu…

ERO Podcast: Cable Green of Creative Commons Talks About Openness

September 5, 2012

In this podcast, Cable Green talks about Open Access, Open Resources, and Open Policies. Cable Green is director of global learning for Creative Commons. …

Dramatically Bringing Down the Cost of Education with OER: How Open Education Resources Unlock the Door to Free Learning

February 7, 2012

This issue brief from the Center for American Progress and EDUCAUSE seeks to provide a substantive understanding of OER and at the same time inform the emerging public debate over their use in p…

Openness: Decoupling the Future to Radically Improve Access to Education

October 10, 2011

The costs of higher education are soaring for a variety of reasons. A significant factor that will continue to drive costs over the next two decades is that the number of students trying to ente…

How Digital Content + Open Licenses + Open Policies = Sustainable Educational Resources for All

September 12, 2011

Cable Green, Director of Global Learning @ Creative Commons, will discuss how, if we are smart, we will use today's technical and legal tools to build and share high quality, affordable edu…

Got Open Textbook?

September 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI 2011 Online Fall Focus Session

This session will focus on my journey of finding, adopting, and using open-source educational resources in physics and astronomy classes over the past three years. Enrollment in classes is up, st…

Dispelling Myths about OER/Open Textbooks

September 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI 2011 Online Fall Focus Session

Myths about open textbooks rival those of ancient heroes. Learn the truth behind these misconceptions. This presentation will dispel four myths and touch on several others. OER myth: Demand is hi…

And the Text Keeps Evolving…

September 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI 2011 Online Fall Focus Session

This session will describe the evolution of Collaborative Statistics from hard-copy text, to a Web 1.0 version, to its recent Web 2.0 mode. The speaker will include various enhancements and suppl…