Giving it away for free: sharing really is caring in the open education movement
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posted on 2024-07-12, 18:08 authored by Ruth Jelley, Christopher ScanlonThe New York Times dubbed 2012 the year of the MOOC. And for many, the seemingly unstoppable rise of Massive Open Online Courses – courses which are offered for free by prestigious universities – is where the discussion about open education begins and ends.
But MOOCs are only the most visible part of a larger movement, one that is slowly but surely transforming the way we do education and think about educational products and services.
Welcome to the world of open educational resources (OER).
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