As OER Grows Up, Advocates Stress More Than Just Low Cost | EdSurge News

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-01-17

Summary:

"Open educational resources hit a turning point in 2018. For the first time ever, the federal government put forward funds to support initiatives around open educational resources, and recent studies show that faculty attitudes towards using and adapting these openly-licensed learning materials are steadily improving....

But fans of OER are increasingly facing a problem. While OER started off as free online textbooks, it still costs money to produce these materials, and professors often need guidance finding which ones are high quality...."

Link:

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-01-15-as-oer-grows-up-advocates-stress-more-than-just-low-cost

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oa.new oa.oer oa.usa oa.funding oa.licensing oa.libre oa.quality oa.textbooks oa.books oa.audio oa.interviews oa.people

Date tagged:

01/17/2019, 15:02

Date published:

01/17/2019, 10:03