OER: Open Educational Resources

Mission is to expand access to education by promoting awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER).

Provides the resources that student governments and state student associations need in order to bring open textbooks to their campuses.

Global network for open education.

"Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide."

"SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education."

"The Babson Survey Research Group (BSRG) is a survey design, implementation, and analysis organization."

Kristi Jensen and Shane Nackerud, Editors
"Provides both inspiration and guidance for those beginning work on affordable content and evidence of the growth that has occurred in this arena over the last decade."

"The goal of the Maricopa Millions project is to radically decrease student costs by offering LOW COST or NO COST options for course materials."

"The Open Education Research Hub (OER Hub) are leaders in researching the impact of open educational resources (OER) on teaching and learning practices. Our aim is to raise the quality and profile of research in this field."

"The Open Education Group is an interdisciplinary research group that (1) conducts original, rigorous, empirical research on the impact of OER adoption on a range of educational outcomes and (2) designs and shares methodological and conceptual frameworks for studying the impact of OER adoption. We also teach courses in topics relating to open education."

Tidewater Community College is a pioneer in the use of openly licensed high-quality electronic textbooks and other educational materials for the completion of an entire two-year associate degree.

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