OER Guide: OER In Action

The Affordable Learning Exchange was created to help instructors take ownership of their courses and content. We are here to help navigate the waters of affordable resources and find creative solutions that promote students savings. --From the About page.

This wiki demonstrates just how many community colleges are using OER already. This list includes the course name, institution, and links to the OER they use.

The Maricopa Community College District in Arizona has saved its students over $10 million in course materials by using low-cost or no-cost materials in its general education, high enrollment courses.

Northern Virginia Community College has developed course pathways where students are not required to purchase a single textbook to achieve an Associate Degree in several programs.

This rubric offers questions to ask about the OER you are thinking of using.

This is a five-step guide for faculty, and those who support faculty, who want to modify an open textbook. Step-by-step instructions for importing and editing common open textbook file and platform types are included.

The goal of the Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the resources needed so that each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, teaching assistant, etc. has the opportunity to create a truly open and accessible textbook.