Permalink for this paragraph 0 Although survey results can help
us understand some of the ways that liberal arts colleges are
approaching open education, case studies enable us to develop a
much more detailed perspective. With these case studies, we hope
to describe some of the innovative ways that liberal arts
colleges are experimenting with open education to promote
strategic goals such as improving learning, building community,
and broadening access to education. Often this work on open
education occurs more at the faculty level than the
institutional level. For example, faculty at liberal arts
colleges are producing freely available resources, crafting wiki
assignments for their students, offering MOOCs, and integrating
OER into their courses. At a more institutional level, liberal
arts colleges are adopting (and in some cases enhancing) open
learning systems such as Moodle and WordPress. Still, liberal
arts colleges seem to be scattered and fragmented in their
efforts around open education. What is the s