Open Educational Resources (OER): Learn More About OER

From Lumen Learning, This 6 module course provides faculty with an introduction to the laws that influence the use, re-use, and distribution of content they may want to use in a course. Activities include finding openly licensed content for use in a class and publishing openly licensed works created by faculty. At the end of the course, students will have openly licensed content that will be ready for use in a course.

From the the U.S.PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) Education Fund - 2014.

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has 200+ members from academic and research libraries located in the U.S. and Canada.

From UNESCO.

An online 255 page book from MIT Press (2012).

from Educause.

February 2016 article in the journal, Educational Technology Research and Development which analyzes 16 studies conducted on the impact of OER on student learning outcomes and on the perceptions of students and faculty of OER vs. traditional textbooks.