Helping educators adopt open educational resources and informing policymakers across the nation about the power of these teaching and learning resources.

The four regional education compacts are collaborating to scale and sustain the use of open educational resources, which are high-quality teaching and learning materials that are free for educators and students to use, customize and share. The work of this collaboration, known as the National Consortium for Open Educational Resources, is funded by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, the New England Board of Higher Education, the Southern Regional Education Board and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.