OER Commons, an organization focused on creating open educational resources for education, has developed a new tool for authoring OER. Open Author, as it's named, consolidates the functions of three ...

Can open educational resources, or OER, truly create more equity and access? That was the question at the heart of our #DLNchat on January 9, which centered around OER in Higher Education. Our special ...

Open educational resources typically have been offered to educators in bite-sized chunks—an individual lesson here, a classroom module there—and have been meant to fill in holes the core curriculum ...

Many students face a financial challenge when it comes to covering the cost of course materials each quarter. This can sometimes prevent them from taking a class or be the reason behind their decision ...

OER Commons has forged alliances with over 500 major content partners and users can search across over 42,000 vetted and fully-indexed OER. Since these resources are ‘open,’ they are available for ...

Open educational resources not only save students from triple-digit (or more!) textbook costs, but they also allow instructors to mix-and-match content for a more personalized, engaging learning ...

March 10 marks the end of Open Education Week, which was launched to draw attention to open educational r esources. Those are essentially educator-created curricular and other classroom materials that ...

It has been almost three years since the launch of the United States Department of Education’s #GoOpen movement. If you are late to the #GoOpen party, it is the commitment to expand and accelerate the ...

In what will undoubtedly become a valuable resource and networking tool for teachers and students, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) has launched a new online ...

An organization focused on creating open educational resources for education has developed a new tool for authoring OER. OER Commons' Open Author, as it's named, consolidates the functions of three ...