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OER Adoption Initiatives and Libraries - tcassidy - 05-21-2015

As the VCCS Z x 23 initiative gets underway, here is a timely blog post from Lumen's David Wiley, which proposes a useful framework for thinking about the differences between open, library-licensed, and proprietary content: "When it is impossible to choose OER, faculty should choose library resources. Students should be required to individually purchase commercial materials only when OER and library resources are impossible to use."

On the Relationship Between OER Adoption Initiatives and Libraries
(May 20,2015)
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3883