Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are published under an open copyright license, frequently a Creative Commons license, that permits others to freely use, adapt ...

Open Access (OA) publications allow for academic content to be shared freely without paywalls. A subset of OA publications called Open Educational Resources (OER) are focused more specifically on ...

Miami University Regionals Teaching Professor Caryn Neumann has been selected as a recipient for a unique grant that helps college instructors learn how to better utilize Open Educational Resources ...

The high cost of textbooks and other course materials can make college less affordable for all students, so the University of Delaware’s Open and Affordable Teaching Materials (OATM) initiative is ...

All Miami University full-time instructional faculty who have responsibility for teaching and/or coordinating a course are eligible for a variety of university initiatives designed to promote ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) have emerged as a critical component in higher education, enabling the widespread sharing of knowledge through freely accessible and adaptable materials. These ...

The University Libraries recently selected five project teams to receive grants to adapt courses to use open education resource (OER) materials. In awarding these grants, the Libraries hopes to both ...

For a few years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Melody Rood helped award faculty members small grants to create open educational resources — course materials that are openly ...

(TNS) — Barton Community College is working toward a textbook-free future. Vice President of Instruction Elaine Simmons described the Textbook Freedom Campaign at a recent BCC Board of Trustees study ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Pursuing a college degree is a significant investment for many students, and textbooks and other course materials represent a substantial additional expense. Some students may need to ...

To help reduce textbook costs for students and offer them more relevant materials, faculty, staff and top administrators at University of Texas Permian Basin are working to create Open Educational ...