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Category: Open Education News

OER Week – Exploring Open Access Books

Posted March 29, 2017

Looking for more than textbooks? Check out scholarly monographs released under Creative Commons licenses, also known as Open Access Books. To find a variety of open access books, visit Knowledge Unlatched, JSTOR Open Access eBooks, OAPEN, and University of Michigan Press.

OER Week – Exploring Open Textbooks

Posted March 28, 2017

Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed” according to the Open Textbook Library. To find open textbooks in your subject, visit the Open Textbook Library, OpenStax, Open SUNY Textbooks, and College Open Textbooks.

Expanding Access and Inclusion by Combating the Rising Cost of Textbooks

Posted March 20, 2017

By: Jenne Klotz We have all probably been surprised by the cost of a textbook at some point.  And we’ve probably all experienced frustration about what to do about it—we choose the best resources for our classes but we have […]