Open educational resources

High-quality free and open source educational resources (OERs) provide teachers, students, institutions, and individuals with books, articles, videos, and other digital content to support learning without the high cost of traditional textbooks and other resources.

Open access education written on a blackboard

A shift in education: Teachers who create content, not consume

I first met Stephen O’Connor, a fifth grade public school teacher at Wells Central School, at the New York State Association for Computers and Technology in Education…

12 open education videos for China

Last summer was special for the Creative Commons China Mainland team, Wenzhou Medical University, and Guokr.com. These three parties co-hosted an Open Education Resources (OER…

A student reading open education resources

A guide to creating easy, online learning materials with Xerte

Online learning is becoming more prevalent, which means educators need easy to use tools for creating online learning materials. There are several closed source, commercial…

Launch of "What is open education?" resource on Opensource.com

Just what is open education? At Opensource.com, we love sharing stories about the ways open source tools and principles are changing the nature of teaching and learning today…

5 lessons open education resources can learn from FOSS

While the OER community owes some of its genesis to the open source and free software movements, there are some aspects of how and why these movements work that I think are…

Five open source tools libraries need to know about

There was a time when working in the library I found it very frustrating (as many librarians do) that there were so few options for software that actually did what I needed…

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