Open Textbooks: Why? What? How? When? The cost of traditional textbooks has skyrocketed. The effect of this increase in cost, and the reasons for it, are somewhat different in higher education than in K-12 education. Read more
Open Educational Resources: The Way Forward. Deliberations of an International Community of Interest The term Open Educational Resources (OER) was adopted at a UNESCO meeting in 2002 to refer to the open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of use Read more
Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace The term ‘Open Educational Resources’ (OER) was coined in 2002 during the UNESCO Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries, convened to consider the potential, for developing countries, of the Massachusetts Institu Read more
Open Educational Resources - Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Between 2005 and 2007, a large Community of Interest of more than 600 members from more than half of the 192 Member States of UNESCO took part in online discussions on Open Educational Resources (OER) – open content for education. Read more
Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources Learning resources are often considered key intellectual property in a competitive higher education world. However, more and more institutions and individuals are sharing their digital learning resources over the Internet, openly and for free, as Open Educ Read more
Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources This paper depicts the sustainability of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in terms of the three models: funding, technical, and content. Discussion and recommendations are focused on the sustainability of OERs and the requirement that we think of OERs as Read more
On OERs: Five ideas to guide engagement with the Open Educational Resources 'movement' This brief paper was developed in response to the launching of the Cape Town Declaration that set itself up as a manifesto of a 'movement', the 'open education movement'.It describes five ideas that SAIDE regards as important in engaging with the OER 'movement'. Read more
A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges and New Opportunities. Report to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation In 2002 the Education Program of the Hewlett Foundation introduced a major component into its strategic plan "Using Information Technology to Increase Access to High Quality Educational Content". This review of the Open Educational Resources Movement begi Read more
