Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Creating your own OER

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Whether you're planning to integrate OERs into your course, or just interested in learning more about how you can lower costs for students, your OER Representative is here to help! 

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Exploring OERs

Listed below you will find a list of OER repositories. You may have heard of them, but have never had an opportunity to engage with them.  Click on any one of the links below to watch a video on how to navigate these open resource repositories. 

Evaluating OERs

Using your course syllabus:

A.) Try to locate an OER textbook resource using one of the OER repositories below (click on the icon to navigate to the website)

MERLOT           OER Commons          OpenStax           Open Textbook Library           Horn Library Division OER

Were you able to quickly locate a suitable textbook? 

B.) Try to locate supplementary material (diagram, video, group excercise) for your course using the OER repositories above.

What typesof resources did you notice were available in the repository? 

Would you incorporate them in your course?

C.) See below for more evaluation tools:

Adopting OERs

Adopting an OER is a matter of simply adding a link in your syllabus and letting students know that it is free (or low-cost) to access and use. See below for support materials: