THREE IN FOUR U.S. TEACHERS SAY OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ARE USED MORE OFTEN THAN TEXTBOOKS | TES Global

"TES Global, digital education company and home to the world’s largest online teacher network, today published the findings of its second annual Teachers and Technology Survey. Conducted in January and February 2016, the survey gathered opinions on classroom technology from nearly 1,000 American teachers.  For the second year in a row, the survey revealed near saturation of education technology; however, 2016 figures show that adoption of open educational resource in particular appears to be accelerating, with 73% of survey respondents reporting that they now use open resources more often than textbooks. Adoption of OER has been buoyed by teacher word-of-mouth, as well as recent regulatory shifts. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Education issued new regulation that requires all copyrightable intellectual property created with grant funds to have an open license. According to a 2015 report from Hewlett, Creative Commons-licensed works have increased from 50 million in 2006 to 1.18 billion in 2015 ..."