Free to learn: An Open Educational Resources policy development guidebook for community college governance officials
| Published | October 2010 |
| Type of work | |
| Periodical | Pages 1-40 |
| Publisher | Creative Commons |
| Country | United States, North America |
ABSTRACT
Open 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.| Keywords | education · institutional plan · OER definition · OER history · Open Educational Resources · policy · textbooks |
| Published at | San Francisco, CA |
| Language | English |
| Rights | by-sa/3.0 |
| URL | https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/67/FreetoLearnGuide.pdf |
| Other information | free to learn |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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