As education costs soar, students face barriers when accessing essential learning resources. Open educational resources break down these barriers, granting all students access to vital materials ...

Open educational resources, widely regarded as posing a challenge to commercial providers of academic content, have received a potentially major boost with the passage of the Every Student Succeeds ...

In 2019, the Drexel Libraries appointed three Library Faculty Fellows to support its initiative to lower students’ expenditures for required course readings by adopting, advocating, or guiding Drexel ...

In this series on educational technology game changers, I focused my first blog on one-to-one computing initiatives. Next I'll look at open educational resources (OER), because once all students have ...

Federal lawmakers want to encourage schools to consider using free, modifiable learning resources for students before investing in costly textbooks and curricula. A move in the U.S. Senate to promote ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely ...

Think about how you could incorporate open educational practices (OEP) into your teaching. Choose one of the scenarios below and jot down a quick idea: Imagine you’re teaching a class. How could you ...

In an age of fake news, I took solace in the fact that science has a peer-review process that separates the wheat from the chaff. It was reassuring to think that authors had sifted and winnowed ...

This week is Open Education Week, when members of Open Education Consortium come together to showcase what they're doing to make education more open, free, and available to everyone. When Melissa Hoch ...

Nearly 1.6 billion learners globally have been experiencing various forms of disruption in learning due to COVID-19. School closures, as a means to reduce the spread of the virus, set the stage for ...

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 (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are published under an open copyright license, frequently a Creative Commons license, that permits others to freely use, adapt ...