It’s About Time

Abstract

The price of textbooks and other learning materials hinder students’ ability to pursue higher education. Open educational resources (OER) provide one answer to this problem. Though well established in STEM disciplines, OER are less common in art history and other arts courses. The College Art Association (CAA) and the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) hosted panels on OER at their 2019 annual conferences. This article summarizes those panels and analyzes the speakers’ experiences within the context of OER initiatives in higher education. [This article is an expansion of conference sessions at the College Art Association conference held in New York, New York, in February 2019, and the ARLIS/NA conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2019.]