Open Education Resources
Additional Resources
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Iowa OER
Iowa OER is a statewide group supporting affordable higher education in Iowa. Its website provides information about state-specific OER topics and initiatives. Here you can find OER training modules, 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 to instructors who want to replace their current textbooks with open alternatives.
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Open Education Network
The Open Education Network (OEN) provides support, education, and community for those working in the areas of OER and Open Education Practices (OEP).
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SPARCThe Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) supports the creation and sharing of open materials used in teaching. It also supports 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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University of Iowa Pressbooks
Pressbooks is an open-source tool for authoring OER textbooks, and is 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 UI-specific information about using and creating OER.
Content statement
Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.
What are 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 described below.
5Rs: Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute
Examples of using the Five Rs include...
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Retain: Making, owning, and controlling copies of the content
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Reuse: Fully using the content for any purpose (e.g., using the materials in a class or study group)
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Revise: Adapting, adjusting, modifying, or altering the content (e.g., translating the content into another language)
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Remix: Incorporating the content with other content or making a mashup with other material
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Redistribute: Sharing original or altered version of the content (e.g., sending it to a friend)
Image credit: 5Rs by Ellen September, CC-BY 2.0
Get support from the Libraries
UI Libraries offers support for instructors interested in OER. Schedule a consultation with the Libraries' Scholarly Impact Department to:
- Review your current syllabus and find free-to-student textbook alternatives, such as openly licensed and library-licensed materials.
- Find OER in your discipline that is ready to adopt.
- Understand Creative Commons licenses and applying open licenses to your own work.
- Learn how to edit and remix OER so that it better fits your course and student learning objectives.
- Find out about OER authorship and content delivery.
- Apply for funding to support your work.
- Connect with other OER practitioners in your field.
Click here to schedule a consultation!
Check out the Scholarly Impact Department's website to find out more about us and the services we provide.