Open Education Resources/Affordable Learning

Open Educational Resources & Affordable Learning Survey – Faculty

Affordable Learning Initiatives look to reduce costs for students by substituting low-cost or no-cost resources in place of commercial textbooks. The scope of material used can be wider than just OER materials. Examples include:

• Using library-licensed materials, including books, eBook, and electronic journal and magazine articles for course instruction, or making use of library physical and electronic reserves. These materials have already been purchased by libraries or institutions but are no-cost to students.
• Using existing Open Educational Resources for course instruction and/or modifying/enhancing existing resources.
• Creating open content that can be used by students you are teaching or by other instructors or scholars.
• Institutional efforts to negotiate across-the-board lower costs for traditionally published textbooks and materials.

https://affordablelearning.ohiolink.edu/Guide/Introduction

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
~The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
https://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources