This is an online slideshow that gives 10 reasons why Open Content is great for teaching and learning. The slideshow is 6 minutes, 42 seconds long and displays pictures that loosely relate to the points.

Open content could become more mainstream in higher education this year. The movement holds great potential for the higher education space where the New Media Consortium (NMC)--which publishes The Horizon Report annually in collaboration with Educause Learning Initiative--identifies it as a trend whose adoption rate will be one year or less.