OERs are educational materials both print and digital that are created by educators with the intention of sharing with other educators. Published materials are often licensed to ensure the author(s) receive financial credit each time their work is purchased, say in a bookstore each semester. OERs are licensed in a way that enables educators from around the world to locate, adapt, and use various materials from others in their own classrooms.
OERs can come in a variety of formats:
Librarians would like to see the trend towards OER materials center stage since we directly observe how many students are unable to or are unwilling to purchase expensive textbooks for an 8-week or 16-week course. OSUIT is partnering with OpenStax to reduce costs for students.
The Open Education Movement was built around the 5Rs of Open:
The B.C. Open Textbook Project was created to make higher education more accessible by reducing student cost through the use of openly licensed textbooks.
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ManyBooks was established in 2004 with the vision to provide an extensive library of books in digital format for free on the Internet.
The National Academies Press (NAP) offers more than 8,500 titles in PDF format. Almost all of these PDFs can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book.* See About PDFs for more information on accessing their digital content.
Founded in 2008 by a small group of academics at the University of Cambridge, Open Book Publishers publishes monographs and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. All books are available to read for free online.
Open access textbooks through Rice University's Open Educational Resources program
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks
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