Why Look At Open & Education

Open and Education are concepts that fit together and compliment each other incredibly well.

82% increase in textbook prices 2002-2012
Textbook prices are increasing dramatically .

Notes

Open and Education are concepts that fit together and compliment each other incredibly well. We will look at one aspect, the overlap of open source and education that is open educational resources (OER). For something that is such a natural fit, OER is comparatively unknown and underutilized.

OER can help blunt the increasing cost of textbooks.