Cost is always an issue for educators in the humanities and so that’s why Open Educational Resources handbook wiki should get some attention.
One of its most immediate benefits that I see is the directory of alternative, open source equivalents to otherwise expensive, proprietary electronic office and design tools. For example, in my quick skim of the Compose section, I found an entry and link to an open source equivalent to Adobe InDesign — Scribus.
But that’s only a small part of it. This wiki, of course, encourages contributions and covers quite a wide array of categories pertaining to pedagogy and subject-specific content areas (e.g., accounting, math, physics). Resources like this make this wiki worth revisiting
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