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OERs Increase Access, Drop Book Expenses: May 7, 2013

Tacoma Community College and other schools are finding that use of open educational resources (OER) in couses is saving students financially. Tac…
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…
Teaching in an Age of Plenty: November 9, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012
The practice and profession of teaching developed in the presence of a great scarcity of knowledge. Ubiquitous information and ever more powerful search and knowledge engines have changed the pro…
Free Digital Textbooks, More For-Profit Accountability Coming to California: September 28, 2012

As reported by Inside Higher Ed , new laws enacted in California will have significant impacts on higher education in the state. The Los Angeles Times reports that two companion pi…
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. …
An Open Educational Resource Supports a Diversity of Inquiry-Based Learning: February 9, 2012

This article from the January 2012 issue of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning , explores how open education resources (OERs) are actually being used. This c…
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…
The Math that Matters behind Math and Science (E-)Textbooks: March 14, 2012 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012
Converting a math-intensive textbook to an e-book can be tricky and time-consuming, especially if it's a collaborative book. Simply moving the paper content to an e-book leads to "shovelw…

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