Sustainability and Justice: Challenges and Opportunities for an Open STEM Education.

ABSTRACT: Open educational resources, or OER, are teaching materials that reside in the public domain and are available under an open license. While the creation of high-quality materials and cyberinfrastructure to share these resources is important, OER are much more than static resource repositories. Vibrant OER communities function as collaboration hubs and often include librarians, instructional technologists, instructors, education researchers, funders, open-source software developers, and college administrators. Together, these individuals work as a community to respond to changes in the education landscape, support student learning impacts both in terms of cost savings and student retention, and solve issues related to broadly sharing open resources on the web. This essay provides general inf

SUBMITTER: Diaz Eaton C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9582817 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature