Open Educational Resources (OER) offer higher education
governance leaders a cost-efficient method of improving the
quality of teaching and learning while at the same time reducing
costs imposed on students related to the purchase of expensive
commercial textbooks and learning materials. Leading scholars
around the world are already participating in the OER movement
even without support from most higher education institutions,
including community colleges. Higher education governance
officials, particularly boards of trustees and senior academic
governance leaders, have a tremendous opportunity to harness
the advantages of OER for their institutions.