"5 Keys to Open Textbooks" created by GW Libraries is licensed under a CC BY 2.0 License.
In 2019 we became members of the Open Textbook Network now the Open Education Network and started a mini-grant program that provided our faculty with stipends for either writing peer-reviews of Open Textbook Library materials or adopting an OER in their course.
For more information on our efforts, please contact:
digitalcampusoer@groups.bates.edu.
Funding for this mini-grant program was made possible by the Davis Educational Foundation established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis's retirement as chairman of Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc.
Michelle R. Greene, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Carrie Diaz-Eaton, Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies
Image from: Keynote Slides by Cable Green. Licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are "teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge."
Source: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Benefits:
The Mason OER Metafinder search tool is a federated, up-to-the-minute search that crawls all of the most recent publications from top OER repositories.
OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) searches a range of OER materials from multiple sources, such as textbooks, courses, corresponding materials, interactive simulations, and public domain books and resources. It was developed at SUNY Geneseo.
Ask the Library!
Contact the Research Librarian for your academic department or reach out the the Scholarly Communications Librarians directly:
General Education Search
Open Textbook Search
Open Courseware