Provides definitions of OER from a variety of important players and compares requirements and limitations across them.
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education.
The Hewlett Foundation is one of the first and largest funders of OER initiatives around the world.
Student PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups) organize college students to solve some of the world's most pressing public interest problems, including textbook costs. They conduct research, develop campaigns, and provide resources.
We are a global network of educational institutions, individuals and organizations that support an approach to education based on openness, including collaboration, innovation and collective development and use of open educational materials.
Open Education Week’s goal is to raise awareness about free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now. We want to highlight how open education can help people meet their goals in education, whether that’s to develop skills and knowledge for work, supporting formal studies, learning something new for personal interest, or looking for additional teaching resources.
Selected content on this guide is derived from Academic Libraries of Indiana OER guide at https://academiclibrariesofindiana.org/OER/
Welcome to Finding Free and Open Resources, a chapter-by-chapter informational tutorial for USG faculty and staff interested in replacing expensive commercial textbooks with affordable resources.
Unless otherwise indicated, the content of this tutorial is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Welcome to Creating and Modifying Open Educational Resources, a chapter-by-chapter informational tutorial for USG faculty and staff interested in creating or adapting open educational resources.
Unless otherwise indicated, the content of this tutorial is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This site includes a handbook, videos and set of presentation slides that give instructions on how to apply the rubrics and use the online tool, as well as examples of what different ratings mean under each rubric. The information included in in the handbook, videos and slides is meant to mirror one another, with specific examples included in the handbook and slides.
Licenses and restrictions vary. Please check individual resources within the site for details.
Criteria developed specifically for reviewing open textbooks.
This content was developed by BCcampus. It is a derivative of the Peer Review criteria used by Saylor.org, which is a derivative of the review rubric used by College Open Textbooks,which was adapted from the American Library Association Choice Selection Policy.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
These SUNY OER Community Courses will introduce you to the fundamental principles and effective practices related to Open Educational Resources. Throughout this learning space, you will have the opportunity to explore and discuss methods and approaches to finding, adopting, customizing, integrating, creating, publishing, and licensing OER. You will also have opportunities to connect in conversation with your peers, and work with OER advocates from the SUNY community who can help you along your learning journey.
Specific courses are provided under a CC BY license. Please check individual course for authors and restrictions.
California State University offers a tool to search for free online course materials related to print books by an ISBN search.
Table of Suggested OER Resources for Indiana Core Transfer Library
This searchable table provides a list of Open Educational Resources that faculty may want to adopt for courses listed in the Indiana Core Transfer Library. This table was created by the ALI Affordable Learning Committee and the PALNI PALSave team in 2023.Selected content on this guide is derived from Academic Libraries of Indiana OER guide at https://academiclibrariesofindiana.org/OER/