Open Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Content

Open Educational Resources: Access, Impact, and Sustainability Through Policy

October 20, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

The availability of and interest in open educational resources (OER) have increased dramatically over the past decade. The increased availability of OER raises questions about the effect they are h…

Open Resources: The Need for Integration

October 20, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Over the past 10 years or so there has been a growing, and inexorable, movement toward making scholarly and academic resources openly available. Within IT this first appeared in open-source softwar…

DIY U: Edupunks and the Future of Higher Education

October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Open content, blended learning, prior learning assessment, and personal learning networks and paths are all shaping the future of higher education. The common threads are technology, social media, …

Reporting on the Findings of the Florida Student Textbook Survey

May 16, 2011

It’s clear that the high cost of textbooks has become a burden for students, with significant implications for student learning, success, and finances. Multiple solutions are being proposed for…

Future of Higher Education

March 29, 2011

What does the future hold for higher education? How is American academia changing under the impact of continuous technological transformation? In these quarterly columns I will explore several…

7 Things You Should Know About Open Textbook Publishing

March 8, 2011

The open educational resources model, including textbooks, has emerged as a response to rising text prices, a need for greater access to high-quality learning materials, the proliferation of e-r…

Beyond OER: Shifting Focus to Open Educational Practices

February 25, 2011

This report found that OER are more widely used where programs or initiatives for open resources exist at the institutional level. The lesser the fear, insecurity or discomfort towards OER, the h…

Openness in Streaming Media

February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Online tools are transforming the way we interact with streaming audio and video. What once was housed in an hour-long disc is now open at the per-second level. Sharing customized clips, discipline…

Open Education: Progress and Challenges

February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

A grassroots movement is sweeping through the academic world. The "open education movement" is based on a set of intuitions that are shared by a remarkably wide range of academics: that k…

The Open Textbook Puzzle

February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Can open textbooks provide a viable solution to high-cost textbooks? Are they quality books? What will encourage faculty to develop or adopt them? What is a book? How do students prefer to use text…