Open ed resources still suffer from lack of awareness | Education Dive

Dive Brief: While a number of universities have collaborative partnerships that allow them to pool resources on open educational resources initiatives, many faculty still do not trust OER or, in too many cases, lack awareness. Campus Technology reports that Cable Green, director of open education at Creative Commons, which licenses open resources, said promotion and tenure processes still create barriers to open publishing because of reputational issues. In the United States, open textbooks are getting the most attention because of concerns over the high cost of course materials, while in Europe the key focus is open pedagogy and how OER creates new opportunities for teaching. Meanwhile, in the global south, a primary concern is challenging copyright dominance because so many people ignore copyright under the current system.