CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. As education costs soar, students face barriers when accessing essential learning resources. Open educational resources break ...

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 ...

As long as there have been teachers, there has been sharing: binders of lesson plans, boxes of laminated hand-drawn math games, even recycled scraps of art projects. But with the advance of the ...

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 ...

Now is the time of year when U.S. public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money.

Open educational resources, widely regarded as posing a challenge to commercial providers of academic content, have received a potentially major boost with the passage of the Every Student Succeeds ...

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As more schools across the nation use open educational resources (OERs), school librarians find that their roles as digital content curators are expanding or even being redefined. “Librarians, by ...

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 ...

Web-based educational tools hold the promise of both reducing the cost of higher education and helping learners complete their degrees. Open courseware and other open educational resources are ...

Maximiliano Marzetti a reçu des financements de Creative Commons, for a different project: the effects of the "domaine public payant" in force in some Latin American and African countries on CC ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that ...