1.SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have announced that the SPARC-ACRL Forum at the 2009 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Denver, Colorado, will examine “The transformative potential of Open Educational Resources.”
SPARC（学术出版和学术资源委员会）和美国大学与研究图书馆协会（ACRL）宣布2009年美国图书馆学会丹佛隆冬会议上的SPARC-ACRL论坛将调查“开放教育资源的改革潜力。”

2.In the academic community, there is growing interest in the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) and their potential to transform the way scholarship is conducted. At the heart of the movement toward OER is the idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good, and that technology provides an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. OER are fundamental components of education, as content and tools for teaching, learning, and research that reside in the public domain or have licenses that permit their free use or re-purposing by others.
当前学术界正日益关注开放教育资源（OER）概念及其在引导学术成就改革上的潜力。这场OER运动的核心思想是，世上的知识属于公众利益，人人都可享受技术带来的分享、使用及再利用知识的绝佳机会。OER的基本组成部分是教育，包括教学内容和工具，和公共领域或获得免费使用权的研究。