GSU Library Research Guides: +Open Educational Resources (OERs): OER Faculty Development Day presentation

FDD 2022 Open to Success presentation

OER for Student Success recording (approx 50 min.)

Open for Success Slideshow

OER Panel 2018

OER Panel Powerpoint from FDD 2018

Powerpoint and handout 2015

This page contains handouts and links mentioned in Mary Ann Cullen and Sonya Slutskaya's presentations at Faculty Development Day 9/29/2015.

Handout from FDD presentation
Links and lists from OER and Library Resources in iCollege presentations
Powerpoint from FDD (Part 1): Open Educational Resources
Powerpoint from FDD (Part 2): Library Resources in iCollege

Links in this presentation

Open Educational Resources Guide at GPC
(This guide)
Open Education Guide from Georgia State University
Introductory guide for educators and learners, including resources and advocacy.
Affordable Learning Georgia website
http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/
Open Educational Resources Guide from Virginia Tech University
A "getting started" guide overviewing open, editable, and lower-cost textbooks and open teaching & learning resources for faculty, students, and librarians.

Where to find OERs

There are many sources for OERs, but here are a few popular sites. (There is often a fair amount of overlap in the materials in these sites.)

OER Commons
Search for and contribute OER content. Create an account to save items to "favorites" folders.
MERLOT II
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. Use the Advanced Search to limit by subject, educational level, type of resource, and more. The Content-Builder facilitates creation of new OERs.
OpenStax
OpenStax College has open, peer-reviewed, free e-texts with support materials for instructors. Offers an option to purchase print copies at cost.
OpenStax CNX allows searching and sharing of OER learning modules. (See https://cnx.org/browse)
Open Textbook Library
Peer-reviewed higher education textbook list compiled by Open Textbook Network
College Open Textbooks
GALILEO Open Learning Materials
GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.

Many academic libraries have created Research Guides (sometimes called LibGuides) with OERs selected for their specific population. See the Learn More page for examples and be sure to check with your librarian!

Finding other openly licensed materials

Creative Commons search
Google Image search
To filter by license, go to Search Tools > Usage Rights > then select the license you want.

Grants / SOTL sources

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants
GSU Perimeter College Grants office
Look at "Funding Sources" link for specific sources. Contact grants office for more information about applying for grants. (Grants MUST go through grants office.)
Hewlett Foundation
OCW Consortium
OER Research Fellowships
Fund research on the impact of open educational resources on the Cost of education, student success Outcomes, patterns of Usage of OER, and Perceptions of OER

Information about Open Access Funds and grants that are not funding sources.

SPARC Open Access Funds
Not a funding source, but information about campus Open Access funds.