[http://english.olemiss.edu/2011/10/16/robert-cummings/ Dr. Robert E. Cummings] and [http://wikistrategies.net/pete-forsyth Pete Forsyth]

“ A tremendous opportunity accompanies this shift in students' needs: in all disciplines, the quantity of high quality, peer reviewed open educational resources is growing. But educators are often unaware of emerging materials and practices, or have difficulty assessing their quality. Further, the traditional culture of higher education fails to systematically encourage and reward faculty for integrating developing technology in the classroom, or it does so outside the context of the teaching and learning environment. ”

“ Keywords Open Educational Resources, Open Educational Practices, Open Education, Wikipedia, Centers for Teaching and Learning, Higher Education.
1. INTRODUCTION Educators and education institutions are increasingly looking to engage with Open Educational Resources (OER) , and with practices based on participation in online learning communities like Wikipedia, as they update their teaching practices. There is great potential in these realms, but there is a scarcity of useful, formal research and case studies to inform innovation and experimentation. ”

“ Benefits for higher education include globalizing its approach to knowledge creation and dissemination, improving its ability to teach in an electronic age, extending the benefits of knowledge networks to multiple disciplines, and developing models for effective teaching and learning with the ever-developing OER community. ”