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Free to Learn features case studies and highlights several interviews with leaders of the OER community. The document suggests
that community colleges are uniquely positioned to both take advantage of OER opportunities and to become pioneers in teaching
through the creative and cost-effective use of OER.
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.
Free to Learn Guide
Author: Hal Plotkin
Published 2010
stract: 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.