A.C. Buehler Library: Library Homepage: OER Info

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 Grant criteria, eligibility, & timeline document

Fall 2022 OER Grant Application

OER and Copyright/ Fair Use information

Fair Use Guidelines (from PSU)
The Four Factors of Fair Use, in context
Creative Commons definitions grid
Explanations and a matrix of common OER definitions
SPARC's Open Education page
OER Introduction and Selection Guide (from CCC)

Higher education program examples and resources

Open Textbook Network video playlist
Open Textbook Heroes
Very informative University of Minnesota OT program information
UIC's Faculty OER Incentive Program
St. Xavier University OER programs

Major Repositories

To find OER, start with OASIS here

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

For more links to image sites, click on the "Create" tab above.

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 Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.