Making the Switch to Affordable Course Content | TILT

"The Open Educational Resources Movement (OER) has been gaining momentum since UNESCO held a forum in 2002 to explore strategies for freely offering digital educational content to anyone in the world who had the technological means to access it. Since then, universities from around the world have begun open courseware initiatives, making high-quality educational materials available on the web. Organizations such as the OER Commons, OpenStax, and MERLOT have evolved into portals for promoting, locating, and sharing these materials. For-profit institutions have initiated free 'open universities' to reach populations not served by traditional higher education; for a prominent example, see the OpenLearn portal sponsored by the UK’s Open University.. The most recent and visible manifestation of the open education movement is the emergence (and hype) surrounding the scores of MOOCs that have been developed in the last few years and offered by universities across the world ..."