Open Educational Resources: About Open Educational Resources

This open access book contains excellent introductory material

IWU faculty who received small OER Exploration Grants from the Ames Library share their experiences.

Workshop presented by Mark Liffiton & Chris Sweet (May 2017)

Webinar for IWU faculty presented by Sarah Cohen from the Open Textbook Network (2016)

A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources.

This guide is for faculty authors, librarians, project managers and others who are involved in the production of open textbooks in higher education and K-12.

This online form simplifies choosing a Creative Commons license for your work.

Open Author helps you build and publish Open Educational Resources for you and for the benefit of educators and learners everywhere.

Open access book provides instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER.

Pressbooks is a WordPress-based open source tool for authoring and publishing books

Each summer, our Pedagogy Lab fellows create open educational resource (OER) audio shorts (under 20 minutes long) that blend guided meditation, storytelling, oral history, and podcast. These shorts lead listeners through sensory experiences, introduce theories and concepts, reflect on aspects of Black, brown, and queer existence, and more.

The CARLI Open Illinois Initiative is a commitment to facilitate members’ use and support of Open Educational Resources (OER), especially training, advocacy, and coordination of cooperative effort for the benefit of CARLI libraries.

"Since 2011 Temple University Libraries has provided awards to faculty to eliminate their existing textbook(s). The Textbook Affordability Project has saved Temple University students over $500,000. The project supports the replacement of commercially published textbooks with alternative learning materials, customized by faculty, as well as the adoption of existing open textbooks."

"Now in its eighth cycle, the Open Education Initiative has generated a total savings of over $1.6 million for students in classes that utilize open educational resources or free library material. The Library partners with the Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development (TEFD), Instructional Innovation, and Provost's Office to support our efforts.

The Open Education Initiative at UMass Amherst aims to:

+Encourage the development of alternatives to high-cost textbooks by supporting the adoption, adaptation, or creation of Open Educational Resources (OER) .
+Provide support to faculty to implement these approaches.
+Lower the cost of college for students in order to contribute to their retention, progression, and graduation.
+Encourage faculty to engage in new pedagogical models for classroom instruction.