Provide your students an alternative to expensive textbooks by following these steps:
Check with your department or program to see if there are others who already use OER or to see if others are interested in working with you to find or create an OER..
Research available OER by subject by going to the OER by Discipline page or the OER Collections box or OER Repositories box on this page. The CTE OER Faculty Fellow can also help you with this step.
If you find something appropriate, decide if you want to use the textbook as is, edit, add to, or modify the contents in other ways.
Talk to your program lead or department chair about applying for an OER Award.
This rubric was developed by Center for Open Education. The Open Education Network is based in the Center for Open Education in the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development.
This is a five-step guide for faculty, and those who support faculty, who want to modify an open textbook. Step-by-step instructions for importing and editing common open textbook file and platform types are included.
In this pre-recorded session as part of the Open Education Global 2021 conference (#OEGlobal21), Monica Brown and Amy Song provide you with a brief overview of methods for finding and evaluating OER. Video is less than 14 minutes long.
