The past two weeks we have looked at the fast trends that are driving technology adoption. The next two weeks we will look at the mid-range trends. These are trends that will drive technology adoption in 3-5 years.Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes (Wikipedia). OER are becoming more prevalent in the educational system today. They are also starting to gain acceptance among the academic community. OER can be a free, openly licensed textbook to a free online course from MIT. OER does not necessarily mean just free, but free and openly licensed. In general, this means a person can take and use the material and make it their own. When using OER please look at the fine print on the resource to see what you can and cannot do with it. Below you will find a variety of OER databases with a lots of free and open resources.
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