Affordable Course Materials and Open Educational Resources (OER) for Faculty: Other Resources

Resources, event schedules, and recordings

California Open Online Library for Education (COOL4Ed)

The River Campus Libraries offer a series of resources and services where instructors and students can learn more about the movement, engage in the available materials, and take action by rethinking standard ways to deliver and participate in their coursework.

Open Content to Transform the Classroom by Matthew Bloom is copyright MCCCD/MCLI and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (Links to an external site.) (unless otherwise noted). Part 1 was originally titled "Making the Transition to Open," and was licensed the same way.

Pulls together information, advice, and resources for those managing OER initiatives. Topics covered include:
Building an OER initiative
Team-building and management
Starting a grants/incentive program
Training and professional development for your team
Project management for OER creation
and more!

by the American University College of Law

by April Hathcock

updated march 5, 2018

2019 UNESCO report

Updated spring 2020. Affordable Learning Georgia’s institution reports use data from each Textbook Transformation Grants proposal for grants data, along with regular sustainability checks to ensure that projects are continuing past the final semester. Spreadsheets also include all no-cost (ZNCM) and low-cost (ZLCM) Course Catalog Designators.

This book represents a starting point towards curating and centering marginal voices and non-dominant epistemic stances in open education. It includes the work of 43 diverse authors whose perspectives challenge the dominant hegemony.

2014 by Carmen Kazakoff-Lane. ACRL is pleased to announce the release of “Environmental Scan of OERs, MOOCs, and Libraries: What Effectiveness and Sustainability Means for Libraries’ Impact on Open Education,” a research report by Carmen Kazakoff-Lane. Kazakoff-Lane (Extension Librarian at the Brandon University John E. Robbins Library in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada) introduces and provides background on the open educational resources (OER) and massive open online course (MOOC) movements and investigates the effectiveness and challenges to sustainability of each. The report will be of interest to those who are seeking to learn about OERs and MOOCs, as well as to those for whom the roles of librarians in the realm of open education is an interest, and includes a substantial set of references for further investigation.

Both Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) are becoming more central to many librarians’ work and the core mission of librarianship, in part because of the perceived relationship between openness and social justice. However, in our excitement about the new opportunities afforded by open movements, we might overlook structural inequalities present within these movements. In this article, I utilize some of the useful critiques OA has generated to inform the discussion of OER creation and practice. I then hone in on the conversation around OER specifically to suggest starting points for how librarians and other LIS professionals can construct more thoughtful OER practices.