In a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship by Peter Suber, Melissa Hagemann assesses the promise of open education and scholarship. She writes:
Open educational resources (OER) are digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research. OER have the potential to improve the quality and reduce the costs of educational materials … OER advocates are forming grassroots open education advocacy groups … Similar to open access, open education has the potential to play a leading role in the democratization of the internet … While replicating the success of the open access movement will not be easy, OER advocates are working with the open access community and learning from their success. Together open access and the blossoming open education movement have the potential to create a truly global learning and knowledge commons which can lay the foundation for open scholarship.
