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Do We Need a National Open Education Strategy?

Iterating Toward Openness

To hear some OER advocates describe it today in 2024, the same format that was being used in the late 2000s – traditional-looking textbooks published under open licenses – is the state of the art when it comes to open educational resources. And that’s essentially where innovation stopped. 2016; Koedinger, et al.,

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Reflections on a Conversation about a US National Open Education Policy

Iterating Toward Openness

The sense I got is that reducing textbook costs isn’t enough anymore, the advocacy has moved on to eliminating them. For many years now what people call OER advocacy has actually been “zero textbook cost” advocacy. The US Department of Education’s Open Textbooks Pilot program is a great example.