“Open” is the key word for Alberta this summer. Come fall, college and university students across Alberta will be keen to see how the provincial government lives up to another promise for open — open educational resources or OER. This past spring, as part of the Alberta 2030 post-secondary strategy the Government of Alberta committed to making educational resources more accessible by supporting free openly licensed textbooks and other educational materials. While the Alberta 2030 document sets this objective, lacking are details on how it will achieve this.
