Academic Libraries and Open Educational Resources: Developing Partnerships | ALA Annual 2016

Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible texts and media that faculty can assemble, repurpose and package under open access agreements for teaching and research – and they are a rapidly growing option.  Even if Faculty may seem to be resistant to this evolution, the Open Educational Consortium is working to promote awareness, collaboration, innovation and development of OER. The US Department of Education now recognizes 14 states and 40 districts committing to the #GoOpen initiative, to help develop new degree programs using OER.