Free Resources are Not Always Open Resources

Last week OEN reported on an article at Newsweek about OER. Karen Fasimpaur has a new post criticizing the article for covering free resources that are not open. From the post:

While the article does talk about MIT’s OpenCourseWare and a couple other open projects, it is really about free online courses. Nowhere does the article define OER or talk about what open is and how open is different from free and digital.

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