The Promise of Open Educational Resources

Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge or that have an impact on teaching, learning and research. We (the authors) have been working in the area of OER at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for the past five years and will describe what we think is their promise here. Additional author: Catherine Casserley