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Open Educational Resources (OER) True Articles, Books, Pr…

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…

Sierra Vista High School and the National Repository of Online Courses
March 19, 2013

"Profiles of Next Generation Learning" is a video series produced by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . Each video explores the …

Next-Generation MOOCs with Open-Source PaaS
April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

MOOCs are popular, plentiful, and low cost, thanks to cloud computing. A current challenge with computer science –based MOOCs, however, is that computer science students need increased capabili…

Profiles of Next Generation Learning: Open Learning Initiative
July 18, 2012

"Profiles of Next Generation Learning" is a video series produced by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . Each video explores the …

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…

Peanut Butter Meets Chocolate: Hewlett OER and Deeper Learning Grantees Join Forces for a Day
April 11, 2013

The San Diego weather was cooler than usual last week, but an occasional chilly breeze off the Pacific did little to cool the enthusiasm among the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation grantees ga…

California Bill = Path Around Curricular Bottlenecks Through 3rd-Party Online Providers
March 13, 2013

As numerous mainstream and higher education media outlets have reported--for two, see the New York Times and Inside Higher Education --the California state senate president is pois…

UC Irvine Open Chemistry Initiative
March 11, 2013

Just in time for Open Education Week , Inside Higher Education reports the University of California, Irvine, (an Open Courseware Consortium member) has made the full course curricu…

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