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[From Google's English] "The question is: Is it true in a world where free and freely available information has become commonplace, you have to pay a lot for quality when it comes to learning materials? And where there are more and more open educational resources (OER)? This 'open educational resources' are freely available and with an open license to (re) use and adaptation by teachers and learners (school or home), sometimes completely free and sometimes with conditions. One condition is often that you can edit the material as you future users permission to edit your material (the principle of equal parts ie copyleft instead of copyright). Another condition might be that you are not allowed to use the material for commercial purposes. In two large studies, where teachers complete OER textbooks made ​​from freely available materials researchers have seen or really cheap is expensive. In one study among American secondary vocational schools has included studying how learning with OER learning materials were related to those with textbooks from education publishers. A total of 16 727 learners participated, of which 11 818 4909 OER learning materials and publishing materials used in include Mathematics, English, psychology, biology, chemistry, business administration and history. In a second study, now at a regular high school, the researchers looked at whether students who used OER textbooks (which cost five dollars per printed book and were electronically free) performed differently than students who used 'normal' textbooks. To this study involved 4183 pupils and 43 teachers participate in the courses earth sciences, biology and chemistry. Both studies showed that the results of OER materials at least equal and often were significantly better than those with learning materials from the publishers. In other words, the OER materials (inexpensive) were at least as good - if not better - than the publishers (duurkoop) ..."