Whether through AIR's Faculty Grant Program or as one-off projects, instructors at Northwestern from across disciplines use and create OER. See below for a list of in-process projects, as well as ...

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 ...

Think about how you could incorporate open educational practices (OEP) into your teaching. Choose one of the scenarios below and jot down a quick idea: Imagine you’re teaching a class. How could you ...

As education costs soar, students face barriers when accessing essential learning resources. Open educational resources break down these barriers, granting all students access to vital materials ...

Open educational resources typically have been offered to educators in bite-sized chunks—an individual lesson here, a classroom module there—and have been meant to fill in holes the core curriculum ...

From curated textbooks to hands-on volcanic case studies, geology education is evolving into an immersive experience. A combination of open resources, interactive activities, and real-world examples ...

The tenure and promotion system, first envisioned as a way to ensure academic freedom and economic security for college and university faculty members, is in desperate need of reimagination. When new ...

Open educational resources hit a turning point in 2018. For the first time ever, the federal government put forward funds to support initiatives around open educational resources, and recent studies ...

This article is part of the collection: From School to Shining School: 52 Stories from Educators Across the U.S. Increasingly, educators are turning to Open Educational Resources (OERs) as teaching ...

Nearly 1.6 billion learners globally have been experiencing various forms of disruption in learning due to COVID-19. School closures, as a means to reduce the spread of the virus, set the stage for ...

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As long as there have been teachers, there has been sharing: binders of lesson plans, boxes of laminated hand-drawn math games, even recycled scraps of art projects. But with the advance of the ...