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Using Open Educational Resources (OER) and other options for Educational Materials for Saving Students Money
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
- What are OER Resources?Toggle Dropdown
- Using Library Resources
- Locating OER ResourcesToggle Dropdown
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- Anthropology
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- Business/Economics & Accounting
- ChemistryBioChemistry
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- Criminal Justice
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- English Literature, Writing, & Linguistics
- Gender Studies
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- Information Literacy
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- Mathematics
- Music
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
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- Misc.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Adopting/Adapting/Creating
- Evaluating OER
- OER Grants
- OER Scholarship
- OER in Tenure and Promotion
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OER Tools
- OER Tools: Documentation for Instructorsdocumentation for different tools which can be used in the creation of open educational resources (OER) and/or the implementation of open educational practices (OEP). This document is organized by use case, and features an alphabetical index where additional details about each tool (documentation, use cases, and difficulty scales) are provided.
From ALG
- Creating and Modifying Open Educational ResourcesWelcome to Creating and Modifying Open Educational Resources, a chapter-by-chapter informational tutorial for USG faculty and staff interested in creating or adapting open educational resources.
Adopting/Adapting Open Materials
Creating OER
- Creating Open Educational ResourcesA free online, self-paced course from Open Learn.
Accessibility
- Color SafeEmpowering designers with beautiful and accessible color palettes based on WCAG Guidelines of text and background contrast ratios.
- Color Blind SimulatorIf you are not suffering from a color vision deficiency it is very hard to imagine how it looks like to be colorblind. The Color BLIndness Simulator can close this gap for you.
Using OER with Proprietary Materials
Best Practices in Fair Use for OER
While we encourage educators to use openly licensed media in the classroom, we also recognize that occasionally a copyrighted piece of media is the best way for you to meet your objectives. Luckily, there is a new guide to help you determine when you can rely on fair use.
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources, published by the American University Washington College of Law and the Center for Media & Social Impact, summarizes four ways you can legally use copyrighted work in an OER.
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational ResourcesA Guide for Authors, Adapters & Adopters of
Openly Licensed Teaching and Learning
Materials