A.C. Buehler Library: Open Educational Resources Library Initiative: EU's OER Grant Application

OER Grant application and criteria

APPLICATIONS FOR FALL 2024 COURSE GRANTS ARE DUE APRIL 8

“Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use. Generally, this permission is granted by use of an open license (for example, Creative Commons licenses) which allows anyone to freely use, adapt and share the resource—anytime, anywhere.” (https://sparcopen.org/open-education)

Getting Started with OER

eBooks designed to introduce faculty to using and creating OER are provided below.

The OER Starter Kit by Abbey Elder
This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education. [Version 1.1. Revised September 5th, 2019.]
The OER Starter Kit Workbook by Abbey Elder and Stacy Katz
The OER Starter Kit Workbook is a remix of the OER Starter Kit to include worksheets to help instructors practice the skills they need to confidently find, use, or even create open educational resources (OER). We welcome instructors, librarians, instructional designers, administrators, and anyone else interested in OER to explore the OER Starter Kit Workbook.
OER Handbook for Educators
Welcome to the world of Open Educational Resources (OER). This handbook is designed to help educators find, use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom.The handbook works best when there is some sort of OER you would like to create or make available to others, but it is also useful for the curious reader.