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.

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 (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 ...

High textbook costs continue to prove a barrier to college for some students, with some studies showing that many students skip textbook purchases even if they worry it’ll harm their grades because of ...

A new report from the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC), a nonprofit regional organization devoted to advancing cooperation and resource sharing in higher education, advocates for more ...

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 ...

Initiatives to raise awareness of open educational resources -- free and openly licensed teaching and learning materials -- are having a measurable impact on the number of faculty members using OER in ...

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 ...