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Open Educational Resources Guide

Find, use, adapt openly available textbooks and educational materials to enhance college coursework.

What are OER - Open Educational Resources?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment.

What are OER? Why use OER? Where is OER? How is OER created? Who can help?

What are OER - Open Educational Resources?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment.

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education (2011), 7 out of 10 students did not purchase a required textbook because the cost was too high. Imagine the impact this has on student learning!

OER offers faculty the opportunity to:

  • Make learning more affordable, equitable and accessible for your students
  • Customize your course materials with easily adaptable materials
  • Control the quality of your course materials, as well as the timing of updates
  • Offer students an online option 
  • Review OER to support other faculty and to strengthen coverage in your field
  • Potential for collaborative projects with faculty and other students in creating OER

Interested in learning more? Here are some resources to start with, but please don't hesitate to contact your subject librarian to discuss further! We are eager to support faculty in this venture:

Rapid read articles: OER adoption

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