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One Example of a Nonprofit Moving to Scale through a Collaborative Network
Partnership, collaboration, and information-sharing are intrinsic values within the nonprofit sector. In fact, the exchange of tools and practices has contributed greatly to the evolution of the sector itself. As nonprofits look for emerging strategies to build upon...
Feds Pick California Nonprofit as Partner on Open Educational Resources Project
The U.S. Department of Education has selected a nonprofit organization to help the agency share ideas and best practices with states and districts around the country that are trying to ramp up their use of “open” educational resources. The U.S....
New Framework Offers Way to Validate OER Commitment
A new report proposes a framework by which open educational resource initiatives — and particularly those promulgated by for-profit organizations — can be measured. A new report proposes a framework by which open educational resource initiatives — and particularly...
A Guide to Good OER Stewardship
Interest in open educational resources -- freely accessible and openly licensed learning materials -- is booming. Interest in open educational resources -- freely accessible and openly licensed learning materials -- is booming. But while OER’s growing...
The Rising Cost of Textbooks Is Feverish–Student PIRGs Say Open Educational Resources Has the Cure
The rising cost of college tuition has received a large amount of coverage over the recent months and years. But another cost has risen at an equally unnerving clip as public university tuition, which has tripled in the past thirty years. Course textbooks...