OER cost assessment strategies
Karpel, Nichole and Schneider, Bruce

Published10 December 2018
JournalEDUCAUSE Review
CountryUnited States, North America

ABSTRACT
Open educational resources can provide access to high-quality resources while offsetting the costs of traditional textbooks. An array of costs are associated with the "free" approach, however, and institutions that are successful with OER understand that moving to open resources requires extensive planning, selection, management, and maintenance.

Keywords Community College Open Textbook Project · literature review · OER · OER adoption · OER cost

ISSN1945-709X
RefereedYes
RightsEDUCAUSE Review® is the association's open-access digital and quarterly print flagship publication for the higher education IT community.
URLhttps://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/12/oer-cost-assessment-strategies
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