OER cost assessment strategies
| Published | 10 December 2018 |
| Journal | EDUCAUSE Review |
| Country | United 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 |
| ISSN | 1945-709X |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | EDUCAUSE Review® is the association's open-access digital and quarterly print flagship publication for the higher education IT community. |
| URL | https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/12/oer-cost-assessment-strategies |
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