OER may be a new concept for some professors, but that doesn't mean there aren't enough resources to go around. In fact, Geoff Cain, director of distance education for Eureka, CA-based College of the ...

We are excited to present the February 2026 BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education to Dani Collins, Open Press ...

I recently returned from the Knewton Education Symposium. Like last year’s Symposium, it was a blast for anyone involved with education--a 48-hour party for the mind. We had great participation from ...

Taking into account library articles, web links, videos, simulations and more, many courses are already using a number of open education resources — and the move to full OER doesn't necessarily mean a ...

This material was created by David Wiley and you can download, edit and share it for free under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license from the original post on his blog. Five years ...

Open education resources hold some of the answers to maintaining the quality of learning material while significantly reducing the cost of education, write David Wiley, Cable Green, and Louis Soares.

Open courseware experts announced plans to publish the 5R Open Course Design Framework, a set of guidelines and best practices for developing courses using open educational resources (OER). The ...

More and more instructors are choosing open educational resources over traditional textbooks, a survey of more than 2,700 faculty members reveals. The "Opening the Textbook" survey, published by the ...

Awareness of open educational resources is slowly increasing, per a new report last month from the Babson Survey Research Group. For many faculty members, though, finding OER remains a daunting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education, edtech and higher education. That may not sound like a big deal, but it is. This one textbook deal may ...

This is a guest post by Matt Miller, Superintendent of Mentor Public Schools in Ohio. Patrick Larkin began a deeply important national conversation in Pressing the Reset Button on OER. Every Big New ...

Open Access (OA) publications allow for academic content to be shared freely without paywalls. A subset of OA publications called Open Educational Resources (OER) are focused more specifically on ...