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  • 2.1 Acknowledgements
  • 2.2 Introduction
  • 2.3 A Short History of OER
  • 2.4 Why So Little Attention from Higher Education Officials?
  • 2.5 Improving the Quality of Teaching and Learning through Resource Sharing and Collaboration
  • 2.6 Ensuring Quality
  • 2.7 Different Types of OER Meet Different Needs
  • 2.8 Moving OER into the Educational Mainstream: Challenges and Opportunities
  • 2.9 Passing a Pro-OER Board Level Policy
  • 2.10 Initiating the Higher Education Governance Conversation
  • 2.11 Conclusion
  • 2.12 Index of OER Resources

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Open Educational Resources (OER) offer higher education governance leaders a cost-efficient method of improving the quality of teaching and learning while at the same time reducing costs imposed on students related to the purchase of expensive commercial textbooks and learning materials. Leading scholars around the world are already participating in the OER movement even without support from most higher education institutions, including community colleges. Higher education governance officials, particularly boards of trustees and senior academic governance leaders, have a tremendous opportunity to harness the advantages of OER for their institutions.

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Free to Learn was produced as a result of a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.