I have to say, I personally am pretty excited about this. ProQuest is teaming with OpenStax and OpenSony in order to make textbooks more accessible.
If you are unfamiliar with open educational resources ("OER"), like I was before starting in the MLIS program, OERs are defined as below:
"...freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. It is the leading trend in distance education/open and distance learning domain as a consequence of the openness movement."
(Yes, usually wiki is a no-no, but they really defined it in an easily understood manner).
OERs are so relevant and important in today's day and age. With the amount of students participating in distance learning programs, I think this will make a huge difference.
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