LibGuides: OER: Open Educational Resources: Resources

E-Books

The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in the Higher Education Environment by Kristi Jensen (Editor); Shane Nackerud (Editor)
ISBN: 9781946135445
Publication Date: 2018
"Provides both inspiration and guidance for those beginning work on affordable content and evidence of the growth that has occurred in this arena over the last decade."

Open Education Handbook (WikiBook)
"Point of reference for readers with a range of different roles and interests who are interested in learning more about the concept of Open Education."

News, Advocacy, Case Studies, etc.

Advocacy

Open Education Week
"Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide."
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
"CCCOER’s mission is to promote the adoption of open education to enhance teaching and learning at community and technical colleges."
SPARC Open
"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."
Iterating Toward Openness
Blog by "Dr. David Wiley, who is the Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, an organization dedicated to increasing student success, reinvigorating pedagogy, and improving the affordability of education through the adoption of open educational resources by schools, community and state colleges, and universities."
Open Education Consortium
"The Open Education Consortium (OEC) is a non-profit, global, members-based network of open education institutions and organizations. OEC represents its members and provides advocacy and leadership around advancement of open education globally. OEC works with its members to build capacity to find, reuse, create and share Open Educational Resources (OER), develop open policy, create sustainable open education models, and enable international collaboration and innovation."

Case Studies

Maricopa Millions OER Project
The goal of the Maricopa Millions project is to radically decrease student costs by offering LOW COST or NO COST options for course materials.
Tidewater Community College: Textbook-Free Degree
"Tidewater Community College is a pioneer in the use of openly-licensed, high-quality electronic textbooks and other educational materials for the completion of an entire two-year associate degree."

Students

OER SGA Toolkit [PDF]
"Provides the resources that student governments and state student associations need in order to bring open textbooks to their campuses and save students money."