TES Global: Three in Four U.S. Teachers Say OER Are Used More Often Than Textbooks - Featured News

Annual survey results suggest that connectivity and hardware barriers are falling as online sharing enables broad-based adoption of digital resources TES Global, digital education company and home to the world's largest online teacher network, today published the findings of its second annual Teachers and Technology Survey. Conducted in January and February 2016, the survey gathered opinions on classroom technology from nearly 1,000 American teachers. For the second year in a row, the survey revealed near saturation of education technology; however, 2016 figures show that adoption of open educational resource in particular appears to be accelerating, with 73% of survey respondents reporting that they now use open resources more often than textbooks.