Open Educational Resources : Advocacy

A website with videos that advocates and explains the benefits and promise of Open Educational Resources for teachers, students and schools everywhere.

SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.

The Open Education Consortium is a non-profit network of global educational institutions, individuals, and organization that support open education, collaboration, innovation, collective development, and advocacy for the use of open educational materials.

The Hewlett Foundation advocates for Open Education Resources, provides grants for projects, and supports mainstream adoption and effective use of openly licensed educational resources that provide students around the world greater access to a world class education.

A campaign organized by Student PIRGs who advocate for open textbooks as a long-term solution to help save college students money.

College Open Textbooks is a project of the COT Education, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation whose mission is to drive awareness, adoption, and affordability of open textbooks.

Open Knowledge International is a worldwide non-profit network of people passionate about openness, using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and enable people to work with it to create and share knowledge.

WikiEducator provides an overview of what OER Advocacy is, why it is important, and how you can get involved.

Academic Commons is dedicated to the development of free web-based resources for academic professionals focusing on liberal arts education via digital tools. The news aggregator showcases current developments and projects in the open education community

CCCOER is a growing consortium of community and technical colleges committed to expanding access to education and increasing student success through adoption of open educational policy, practices, and resources. We provide a community and resources to learn about the evolving practice of open education.

A study published in the Journal of Computing in Higher Education in December, 2015, on the impacts of OER in the classroom and found most students and instructors favored OER.
DOI: http://10.0.3.239/s12528-015-9101-x

Research conducted for the purposes of this paper demonstrates that OCUL libraries have a strong awareness of OER trends and are interested in supporting programming and staff development in this area. In several cases, libraries have received direction from university administration to investigate opportunities and potential roles for their services. In other cases libraries have already been providing a significant level of instructional, copyright, licensing and technical support to faculty through workshops and research guides.