The benefits of open educational resources - Graduate School of Education - University at Buffalo

"Sam Abramovich, assistant professor from the Department of Learning and Instruction and the Department of Library and Information Studies, is the director of the Graduate School of Education’s Open Education Research Lab. The core mission of the lab is to actively engage and support the study of the State University of New York open education efforts. “Open educational resources are educational resources that are similar to any other, such as textbooks, presentations and assessments, but are free to use by anyone for any purpose,” said Abramovich. “But what makes an educational resource ‘open’ is that it is licensed to not only be free, but it can also be modified or changed by anyone, and then redistributed afterward.” The University at Buffalo has aligned with the SUNY-wide state effort to enhance and extend the use of these open educational resources. The New York State budget has allocated $16 million for these resources in the last two years, with a portion of that funding GSE’s Open Education Research Lab’s mission to study the use of open or free educational materials that can be downloaded, edited or shared...."