OER Issues: Apples, Orchards and Infrastructure | Digital Tweed | Inside Higher Ed

" ... Open Education Resource (OER) advocates are gathered this week in Vancouver for the 12th annual Open Education conference ... Clearly the OER movement is fueled by good intentions and great aspirations. Several reports and events leading into this week’s Open Ed conference may help to advance the OER cause. First (and at the risk of some shameless self-promotion) were the data from the 2015 Campus Computing Survey indicating that four-fifths (81 percent) of the CIOs and senior IT officers representing the 417 two- and four-year colleges and universities who participated the fall survey agree/strongly agree that Open Source textbooks and OER content 'will be an important source for instructional resources in five years.' Additionally, almost two-fifths (38 percent) of the survey participants confirmed that their institutions encourage the use of OER curricular resources, up from a third (33 percent) in fall 2014 ..."