During the past decade, the idea of education as a 21st-century civil rights issue has surged. Many of our nation’s public schools that serve large numbers of low-income communities frequently face ...

Open educational resources typically have been offered to educators in bite-sized chunks—an individual lesson here, a classroom module there—and have been meant to fill in holes the core curriculum ...

Web-based educational tools hold the promise of both reducing the cost of higher education and helping learners complete their degrees. Open courseware and other open educational resources are ...

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. As education costs soar, students face barriers when accessing essential learning resources. Open educational resources break ...

Now is the time of year when U.S. public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money.

Open educational resources (OER) are showing signs of taking root in introductory courses, yet overall awareness of alternatives to traditional textbooks continues to lag, a new study found. More than ...

This article originally appeared in the Q2 issue of Converge magazine. In an effort to lower education costs and create an environment where faculty can have greater freedom in their teaching methods ...

There’s new evidence that open educational resources may contribute to helping students complete college. Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER ...

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In an age of fake news, I took solace in the fact that science has a peer-review process that separates the wheat from the chaff. It was reassuring to think that authors had sifted and winnowed ...

Colorado awards $1 million for Open Educational Resources to reduce textbook costs, expected to save students $3 million, ...

Maximiliano Marzetti a reçu des financements de Creative Commons, for a different project: the effects of the "domaine public payant" in force in some Latin American and African countries on CC ...