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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, widely regarded as posing a challenge to commercial providers of academic content, have received a potentially major boost with the passage of the Every Student Succeeds ...

Open educational resources (OER) are free, openly licensed materials you can use, adapt and share in your teaching. They range from images and videos to textbooks, lab activities, and even full course ...

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

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OER can save students money on textbooks. You can customize OER content to fit your course needs. OER must always be used exactly as they are provided, without edits. OER supports equitable access to ...

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely accessible and openly licensed, allowing users to retain, reuse, revise, and redistribute content. These ...

The University Library, in collaboration with White Rose colleagues, has created an Open Educational Resources (OER) toolkit designed to help colleagues find out more about these types of resources ...