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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...
OER reaches ‘inflection point,’ and states are leading the charge
After years of dabbling with open educational resources (OER), educators have finally begun to embrace the concept as a legitimate alternative to traditional publishing and licensed curriculum materials — and they’re doing it in droves.More than half of U.S. states —...
The Truth (About OER) Is Out There
Faculty members struggle to find open educational resources or even understand what they are -- but solutions are bubbling up.Awareness of open educational resources is slowly increasing, per a new report last month from the Babson Survey Research...
ISKME’s Local & Global Impact in 2017
This year ISKME celebrates fifteen years of local and global impact. From working with local students and educators, to partnerships with international consortia, we strive each day to connect, learn, and bring value to our world while strengthening access,...