This report from 2007 examines The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s past investments in Open Educational Resources, the emerging impact, and explores future opportunities.

On the promise of open educational resources: resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under a license that permits their free use by others.

A look at Open Education Resources and the extraordinary promise of offering educational material online for free.

The paper highlights five key events in the history of Open Educational Resources.

This paper examines how collaboration using emerging open technologies and open content impact the traditional culture of the Humanities.

A reflection on the relationship between new media and instructional methods and experiences of Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative.

This paper explores the strengths and challenges of Creative Commons legal strategy to remove barriers to the sharing, distribution and reuse of content.

Notes from a 2006 meeting in Malmo, Sweden, on Open Educational Resources.

This paper explores how limitations on the reuse of copyrighted materials hamper their impact in the digital world.

In the fall of 2005, UNESCO IIEP organized an international forum on Open Educational Resources. This report, summarizes the discussion and debate that emerged.