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Report: Most educators aware of OER, don't understand OER licensing
Bolkan, Joshua

PublishedSeptember 2017
JournalTHE Journal
Issue 09/21/17

ABSTRACT
A new report examines who the decision-makers are in curriculum adoptions and finds that a sizable percentage of schools have chosen open educational resources in the last three years.

Keywords K-12 · licences · OER adoption · OER uptake

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