Over the past two decades, open educational resources (OER) unfolded as a great idea for reducing educational material costs toward making education more accessible. The use of OER is now in the mainstream at different levels of education, and although many related institutions produce substantial online databases comprising the full range of OER, there is a dearth of field-specific OER collections. Public administration (PA) educators face the challenge of selecting and organizing adequate and appropriate OER resources for course content and in planning and executing learning activities. In this article, I share examples of how the humanities provide opportunities for doing so, from genres in the fields of architecture, visual arts and literary arts.
