Open Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Content

Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content

January 30, 2013

This UK report, commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance and undertaken by Ithaka S+R, "Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content", tells of how …

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…

Ultra-Affordable Online Courses and the Transformation of Higher Education

January 23, 2013

Brian Voss and Burck Smith will explore higher education's changing landscape and what it means for our IT community. Join us for a discussion spanning traditional institutions, entrepre…

Emerging Insights on Learning, Technology, and the Road Ahead

February 14, 2013 | A session at the West/Southwest Regional Conference

In this presentation we'll explore emerging insights in the quickly changing world of learning. We'll look to models from today and envision the road ahead on issues including the inter…

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. …

Case Study 2: The Open Course Library of the Washington State Colleges

May 2, 2012

A case study from Game Changers Tom Caswell This chapter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License This case study describes an initiative o…

Temple U. Project Ditches Textbooks for Homemade Digital Alternative

February 8, 2012

"A pilot project at Temple University this fall gave 11 faculty members $1,000 each to create a digital alternative to a traditional textbook." …

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 Kansas State University Human Nutrition (HN 400) Flexbook

December 15, 2011

Key Takeaways Flexbooks are "a free and open-source textbook platform " that allows users to " build and edit collaborative textbooks ." Respons…