During the past decade, the idea of education as a 21st-century civil rights issue has surged. Many of our nation’s public schools that serve large numbers of low-income communities frequently face ...

Now is the time of year when U.S. public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money.

Open educational resources typically have been offered to educators in bite-sized chunks—an individual lesson here, a classroom module there—and have been meant to fill in holes the core curriculum ...

Web-based educational tools hold the promise of both reducing the cost of higher education and helping learners complete their degrees. Open courseware and other open educational resources are ...

As education costs soar, students face barriers when accessing essential learning resources. Open educational resources break down these barriers, granting all students access to vital materials ...

The Education Department is making good on its promise to make online content openly licensed and free to teachers, parents and administrators who want to use it for educational purposes. Andrew ...

This article originally appeared in the Q2 issue of Converge magazine. In an effort to lower education costs and create an environment where faculty can have greater freedom in their teaching methods ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

As more schools across the nation use open educational resources (OERs), school librarians find that their roles as digital content curators are expanding or even being redefined. “Librarians, by ...

In an age of fake news, I took solace in the fact that science has a peer-review process that separates the wheat from the chaff. It was reassuring to think that authors had sifted and winnowed ...

Maximiliano Marzetti a reçu des financements de Creative Commons, for a different project: the effects of the "domaine public payant" in force in some Latin American and African countries on CC ...