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.

SUNY math professor makes the case for free and open educational resources

David Usinski explains how OERs benefit students, instructors, educational institutions, and even course writers.

Open educational resources movement gains speed

OER champion Alexis Clifton discusses the state of open education and how N.Y.'s $8 million investment will spur growth.

Are textbooks in or out? The state of open educational resources

Open education is a hot topic in both the K-12 and higher education spaces due to a number of factors, including the desire to make education more affordable. The cost of…

H5P: A CMS plugin for creating HTML5 interactive content

Many educators want to create interactive content for their classroom or online course. If you're not a HTML5 programmer like most of us, but you have heard HTML5 can simplify…

Openwords generates education resources for large and small languages

What is Openwords? Openwords is several things. It is an open source foreign language learning app. It is a customizable lesson builder for teachers. It is a social enterprise…

Schools that #GoOpen should #GoOpenSource

School administrators know that traditional proprietary textbooks are expensive. Teachers in budget-strapped schools often face shortages of textbooks. Worse, print content is…

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