One aspect of the open educational resources movement (OER) is open textbooks that are free to use -- content in the public domain or with copyright terms that require only attribution (or attribution and share-alike clauses). Open textbooks have taken some time to get written, reviewed and adopted -- but now that there are hundreds of these books available, students should be able to use them freely and benefit from (and even contribute to) these educational materials
Dublin event to highlight the many opportunities from using chatbot technology
The Intel Tech Learning Lab will give students and educators around the USA access to cutting-edge VR technology.
The laptop is designed to make immersive education open and collaborative.
I remember some of my textbooks were astronomical with their prices - and you got next to nothing for trading them in -
I can testify to the textbook racket charging students out of their wallets and their minds. Open is better.
It is good for students who want to study but don't have much in their wallets and also they can contribute to these textbooks.