Web-based educational tools hold the promise of both reducing the cost of higher education and helping learners complete their degrees. Open courseware and other open educational resources are ...

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 ...

For decades, the cost of course materials has increased far beyond the rate of inflation, and Salem State University students say open-resource course materials online would better serve them and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Menendez is a history major at UCSD, and lives in La Jolla. Textbooks are a major burden on college students due to their increasing cost. Since 1977, the price of textbooks has gone up by more than 1 ...

Maximiliano Marzetti a reçu des financements de Creative Commons, for a different project: the effects of the "domaine public payant" in force in some Latin American and African countries on CC ...