Additional Resources
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Iowa OERIowa OER's website provides information about state-specific OER topics and initiatives. Here you can find print resources, archived webinars, and more.
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OpenHawks OER Grant ProgramOpenHawks is a UI-based OER grant program with awards issued each spring semester.
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Open Education NetworkOEN provides support, education, and community for those working in the areas of OER and OEP.
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SPARCThe Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) supports the creation and sharing of open materials used in teaching, as well as new approaches to learning where people create and shape knowledge openly together, and promotes practices and policies that advance this vision.
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UI PressbooksPressbooks is an open source authoring tool, supported at UI by ITS. Sign up for an account at this link.
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Getting Started with OER: A Guide for UI OpenHawks recipientsThis guide provides local information about using and creating OER.
What is OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use. They can include things like open textbooks, audio and video material, test questions, simulations, labs, slides, and anything else you might use in the course of teaching.
Open Educational Resources must either be in the public domain or licensed in a manner that provides users with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities pictured above.
Examples of using the Five Rs include...
- Controlling copies of the content (retain)
- Using the materials in a class or study group (reuse)
- Translating the content into another language (revise)
- Incorporating the content with other content (remix)
- Give a copy of the content to a friend (redistribute)
Why Open Education Matters
This video explains the basics of open education and explains why it is so important:
Citation: Why Open Education Matters by Degreed