The two-year college announced a partnership with the Institute on Open Educational Resources, a program designed to offer free or nearly free textbooks for students pursuing a degree. M State is one ...

PARKERSBURG — Students at West Virginia University at Parkersburg have saved more than $140,000 through the use of no-cost and open educational resources in 38 courses, the school said. Open ...

OER can save students money on textbooks. You can customize OER content to fit your course needs. OER must always be used exactly as they are provided, without edits. OER supports equitable access to ...

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 ...

To help reduce textbook costs for students and offer them more relevant materials, faculty, staff and top administrators at University of Texas Permian Basin are working to create Open Educational ...

Faculty can apply to the Open Educational Resources Course Materials Conversion Program to receive extra compensation. Applications will be accepted through Monday, March 16.

The disruption wrought by COVID-19 seems like it should have created fertile ground for the spread of the freely available, openly licensed course materials known as open educational resources, or OER ...

Students like courses that use open education resources over their typical classes. In a recent research project, most (61 percent) reported that they experienced a boost in their learning experience; ...

A study finds increasing levels of buy-in of open resources, with about three in 10 instructors requiring OER in their courses. As the shift toward a more digital classroom continues post-pandemic, ...

The high cost of textbooks and other course materials can make college less affordable for all students, so the University of Delaware’s Open and Affordable Teaching Materials (OATM) initiative is ...

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 ...

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 ...