Tag: open educational resources

OER and Overreliance on Publisher Materials

While open educational resources (OER) are part of a growing trend toward open education and open access, there are various reasons why instructors remain hesitant to embrace OER adoption for many courses. A typical reason is a concern about quality, but, perhaps not unrelated, instructors are concerned about the time it takes to both locate... Continue Reading →

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Defining Accessibility in the OER Conversation

The open education movement seeks to remove barriers to learner access, and thus the word "accessibility" is important to the conversation. Photo by Jon Moore on Unsplash Availability When many people speak of "accessibility" in the context of open educational resources (OER), they are interested in the foundational open education principle of "availability." Geith and Vignare (2008) define... Continue Reading →

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