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OER Grant application and criteria

APPLICATIONS FOR FALL 2022 COURSE GRANTS ARE DUE APRIL 4, 2022

“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)

OER and Copyright/ Fair Use information

Higher education program examples and resources

Major Repositories

OER (free-to-use and reuse open-access educational material) Repositories

Subject specific open resources

  • English
    • https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces/
      • The WAC Clearinghouse is an open-access, educational website supported by more than 150 contributors, institutional sponsors, and roughly 180 volunteer editors, editorial staff members, reviewers, and editorial board members.
  • Computer Science 
    • https://arxiv.org/- arXiv
      • A free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,078,021 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.