Why Open Access?

Open Education Resources (OER) materials freely available online materials.  In March 2012 the Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Foundations co-sponsored a competition to produce short videos describing the why OER is important for local and global communities.  Take a few minutes to view the winning videos found at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33343?utm_campaign=newsletter_1208&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=newsletter