Open Education Resources

Something that struck me during the class discussions and in the article by Christine Peterson is how important the full definition of open is for us to understand. …

Where To Find the Best Open Educational Resources (OER) — When I began my career as an educator in the early 2000s, I thought textbooks were on their way out. Laptops and desktops had already become ubiquitous. PDFs of every textbook were almost as easy to download as songs on Napster. Since at least 2009 we weren’t paying $10 for…

How CUNY SPS helps students save money — and learn more — with free course materials — During the Spring 2022 semester, CUNY SPS hosted several workshops to help faculty design their courses using free educational materials in an effort to save their students money on costly textbooks. …

The digital world consumes those of us that have access. It is so easy to forget that reality exists outside of this space. Many — millions — don’t have access to the digital world. Copyright (and its alternative licensing options) are just as relevant in the real world, as it…

Open Education Practice (1): The benefits of sharing for academics Open Educational Practice, also known as Open Education Practice (OEP), is a broad conceptual umbrella that refers, amongst other things, to the external and free sharing of contents of educational value by academic knowledge producers, either individually or institutionally. For…

2020–21: What a year During this year of the pandemic, teachers, and students have faced challenges and threats few of us ever imagined. …

In this guest blog post, reflections on curriculum alignment of pre-existing Open Educational Resources OER efforts in Chile and Honduras, sparked by a Creative Commons’ Open Education Platform grant. Discussing the “Reusability Paradox”, a key concept for those planning to build and scale OER, and how powerful infrastructure and tools…

A discussion about strengthening the student and professor feedback loop There’s an exciting new event for the academic community. Join ecoText and OpenStax for a co-hosted panel discussion-style webinar titled “Unlocking the Comment Section: strengthening the student and professor feedback loop”, on April 8, 2021. ecoText is a virtual learning…

Create, Write, Provide Your Own — The internet has been disrupting the education sector since its advent and continues to do so. From The Open University to Massive Online Open Courses (known affectionately as MOOCs) and now Open Educational Resources (OER), the world wide web has been empowering teachers and students alike for many years. In…