OER Knowledge CloudPolicyPlotkin, HalOpen Educational Resources (OER) offer higher education governance leaders a cost-efficient method of improving the quality of teaching and learning while at the same time reducing costs imposed on students related to the purchase of expensive commercial textbooks and learning materials. Leading scholars around the world are already participating in the OER movement even without support from most higher education institutions, including community colleges. Higher education governance officials, particularly boards of trustees and senior academic governance leaders, have a tremendous opportunity to harness the advantages of OER for their institutions.20102010/10EnglishCreative Commons1-40United Stateshttps://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/67/FreetoLearnGuide.pdftextbookspolicyOpen Educational ResourcesOER historyOER definitioninstitutional planeducationFreetoLearnGuide-1.pdfhttps://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/67/FreetoLearnGuide.pdfSan Francisco, CA, United States, North America